Tomorrow Comes Today Lyrics
(We) Got no camera to see
Don't think I'm all in this world
The camera won't let me roll
And the verdict doesn't love our soul
The digital won't let me go
I'll pay (yeah yeah yeah)
When tomorrow
Tomorrow comes today
It's taken me far too long
Don't think I'm all in this world
I don't think I'll be here too long
I don't think I'll be here too long
I don't think I'll be here too long
I'll pay
When tomorrow
Tomorrow comes today
I think you guys look into this way too much. It isn't a message in music form; it's music. It's emotion. The song has such a desperate, rat in a cage, feeling. He's lost in a world he doesn't understand and it never stops and it never starts. It's the constant loneliness of the world.
I think it's about 2D/Albarn hiding from real life through technology i.e.: by watching tv and listening to the radio. He start saying everybody is there with him, but he's not in the world and the digital won't let him go. These people with him are actually on tv and he's hooked to watching tv. In the same verse he says there is no camera to see and the camera won't let him go. He also feels judged wrongly (the verdict). He feels watched and wants to hide from 'the camera', he doesn't want to be judged by the people around him (verdict). In the second verse he hides in the world of the radio after a long day, telling himself he won't be there too long (so he probably does this all the time and continues doing it). In the chorus it becomes clear that he is hiding away too much. He doesn't do his duties, like paying bills and taxes, and postpones them to 'tomorrow'. The problem is that tomorrow has already arrived, and so the next day becomes tomorrow. so he is postponing his real-life duties infinitely. You can hear it in the way he sings the chorus: he sings yeaheahyeah as though it bugs him, he waves it way: He'll pay tomorrow. That makes the meaning of the chorus ambiguous. The 'paying' might also mean that he'll regret what he's doing. And he'll find out the hard way.
I think this is what the songs means. It seems to fit everything he says perfectly... This is my personal interpretation of the song though, I don't know if it is correct.
Now that i look at it, i believe that you may be correct there. However, i always thought it was about fame and regret.
Now that i look at it, i believe that you may be correct there. However, i always thought it was about fame and regret.
In the second line when he says "Don't think I'm all in this world, the camera won't let me go", meaning how he's lost in all this fame but not in a good way, but in the sense that he's not enjoying it and he's just kinda there. And the camera (paparazzi) won't let him go and do his own thing.
In the second line when he says "Don't think I'm all in this world, the camera won't let me go", meaning how he's lost in all this fame but not in a good way, but in the sense that he's not enjoying it and he's just kinda there. And the camera (paparazzi) won't let him go and do his own thing.
And when he says "Yeah yeah yeah, I'll pay. When tomorrow, tomorrow comes...
And when he says "Yeah yeah yeah, I'll pay. When tomorrow, tomorrow comes today", i read that as; he will pay the price for being apart of the media. Or better yet, he will pay the price for selling his soul to the devil. But the thing is, he pays for it everyday, because like he said "tomorrow comes TODAY" (tomorrow is always the next day, but for him tomorrow IS today, so it's endless). Realising that fame wasn't everything he imagined it to be (although this is me most likely over- analysing the lyrics).
Then in the third verse he says he "wants it all", perhaps because he has gone too far, or "taken him far too long" to not get it all. But then it comes back to him saying he still doesn't think he's all in this world, and maybe he should end it all now "I don't think I'll be here too long", which really hits the listener the third time he says it (i believe).
But yea, after reading your view on the song, it seems to fit in with conjunction much better than mine does
i thinkyou nailed it
i thinkyou nailed it
its still the best song on ther CD
I think is about the world after Internet and the technologic revolution. With the digital cameras, everybody around the world can see you. ("Everybody's here with me, got no camera to see"). 2-D is a virtual boy, so the digital won't let him go. The computer technology go to fast that one day something is the best and the next day is obsolete. Then, the tomorrow comes today.
this world--2d's disconnection from it, stereo i want it on--drown out the rest of the world i dont think i'll be here too long--his hoping he wont live too long in the world he loathes...
agree with the technological viewpoint, however i think it's more how it has lead to his disassociation with the world. 'digital wont let me go' , 'dont think im not all in this world'
The future is coming rapidly. 'tommorrow comes today'
I always think of the book 1984 :)
@Mononoke Makes two of us, my friend...this song is often ridiculously accurate for me/my existence, together with numerous Joy Division songs...man, I must sound like a right joy to be around, eh?!
@Mononoke Makes two of us, my friend...this song is often ridiculously accurate for me/my existence, together with numerous Joy Division songs...man, I must sound like a right joy to be around, eh?!
But after owning/running my own bar/boutique club in Melbourne's CBD for 8 straight years (2000-08 - all of the usual stereotypes - decent coke habit & a shitload of weed 24/7, shagging hot girlfriends & strippers - not at the same time, sadly! - in the jacuzzi upon the top floor of the club, etc) & then falling 35 feet from the top floor (100%...
But after owning/running my own bar/boutique club in Melbourne's CBD for 8 straight years (2000-08 - all of the usual stereotypes - decent coke habit & a shitload of weed 24/7, shagging hot girlfriends & strippers - not at the same time, sadly! - in the jacuzzi upon the top floor of the club, etc) & then falling 35 feet from the top floor (100% SOBER, btw!) on Sept' 2nd, '08, my life has changed dramatically since then - way too much time spent upon the computer & general tech' stuff now...so I can so vividly relate to this song nowadays, although I'm INCREDIBLY fortunate to even be able to walk now, after smashing half the bones in my body after the fall!!
god what a depressing song
the actual lyrics go: "the burden doesn't love our soul". i'm 100% sure.
@tehDemonMan Although every single time that I've seen the lyrics for this song, they say "And the verdict doesn't love our soul", I just listened to that verse 10 times straight & I get what you're saying - it DOES in fact sound A LOT like "The burden doesn't love our soul" but I don't think that it is, I'm afraid...cheers tDM...
@tehDemonMan Although every single time that I've seen the lyrics for this song, they say "And the verdict doesn't love our soul", I just listened to that verse 10 times straight & I get what you're saying - it DOES in fact sound A LOT like "The burden doesn't love our soul" but I don't think that it is, I'm afraid...cheers tDM...
If you want a depressing song... listen to "I Want To Be Alone" by Jackson C.Frank.
very depressing. and look at the lyrics while you're listening to it.
Amazing song.
Amazing song.