True Love Will Find You in the End

Daniel Johnston wrote "True Love Will Find You in the End", the closing track of Retired Boxer, 1:54, on acoustic guitar. A search summary calls it possibly one of his earliest songs and says it first appeared on the December 1984 demo tape; we could not verify that wording, and Wikipedia lists it simply as a track on the album. The Ringer calls it his signature song. We found no word from Johnston on what it means. It was used in a 2012 Axe men's hair care commercial.

Covers named on Wikipedia include Wilco, Beck, Spiritualized, Spectrum (Peter Kember), Mates of State, Steve Harley, Elizabeth and the Catapult, and Shakey Graves with Jess Williamson; Jad Fair and Kramer, Matthew Good, Adrian Crowley with James Yorkston, and Kate Davis keep its two-minute structure. A 2022 Cover Me Songs piece on five good covers features Basia Bulat, Crybaby, Wilco, Slipstream and Headless Heroes, and its author says he has heard a couple of hundred versions. Beck is a contributor to the 2004 Discovered Covered set, but which of his songs is not confirmed. We could not find a setlist.fm count, a video or chart entries, and did not establish which recording our upload is.