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“I Promise” is a song is about being devoted to someone, almost to an idiosyncratic fault. It details a relationship in which someone makes declaration after declaration that no matter what happens they will stay by their partner’s side. The song is one of three previously unreleased tracks featured...
[Verse 1]
I won't run away no more
I promise
Even when I get bored
I promise
Even when you lock me out
I promise
I'll say my prayers every night
I promise
[Verse 2]
I know which side I'm spread
I promise
The tantrums and the chitty chats
I promise
[Chorus]
Even when the ship is wrecked
I promise
Tie me to the rotten deck
I promise
[Verse 3]
I won't run away no more
I promise
Even when I get bored
I promise
[Chorus]
Even when the ship is wrecked
I promise
Tie me to the rotten deck
I promise
[Outro]
I won't run away no more
I promise
I Promise was written by Ed O’Brien & Thom Yorke & Jonny Greenwood & Colin Greenwood & Philip Selway.
I Promise was produced by Radiohead & Nigel Godrich.
It was recorded during the sessions for their third album, OK Computer, but wasn’t released until the 2017 reissue of the album.
Playing live for the first time after 21 years, in June 2017, Thom Yorke has said:
What a bunch of nutters we were, and probably still are… One of the crazy things we did was not release this song, because we didn’t think it was good enough.