The song lyrics were written by the band Van Halen, as they were asked to write a song for the 1979 movie "Over the Edge" starring Matt Dillon. The movie (and the lyrics, although more obliquely) are about bored, rebellious youth with nothing better to do than get into trouble. If you see the movie, these lyrics will make more sense. It's a great movie if you grew up in the 70s/80s you'll definitely remember some of these characters from your own life. Fun fact, after writing the song, Van Halen decided not to let the movie use it.
Everybody's here with me
(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
Yeah yeah yeah
I'll pay (yeah yeah yeah)
When tomorrow
Tomorrow comes today
Stereo I want it on
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
Yeah yeah yeah
I'll pay
When tomorrow
Tomorrow comes today
(Da da da da da da da da)
(Da da da da da da da da)
(Da da da da da da da da)
(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
Yeah yeah yeah
I'll pay (yeah yeah yeah)
When tomorrow
Tomorrow comes today
Stereo I want it on
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
Yeah yeah yeah
I'll pay
When tomorrow
Tomorrow comes today
(Da da da da da da da da)
(Da da da da da da da da)
(Da da da da da da da da)
Lyrics submitted by Demau Senae, edited by BubbaRReed
Tomorrow Comes Today Lyrics as written by Jamie Hewlett Damon Albarn
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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This is one of my favorite songs. https://fnfgo.io
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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.<br /> <br /> 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.<br /> <br /> 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).<br /> <br /> 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).<br /> <br /> <br /> 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