Tomorrow Tomorrow

This song is one of those songs you cant fully appreciate without a good set of headphones. The guitar during the interlude is too good. Nice dark sound to it.

Personally I this song is about creative ruts. This is all just speculation, if course....

'Straight to over' I think could refer to thoughts and ideas that enter your head when trying to write a song in the wrong mindset. An idea comes, and it's over-thought, you're inner critic shoots it down and its gone. Rather then flowing out without thinking it to death, when you're nice and present.

The hammer at the lock is the sound of the overly conscious Elliott desperately trying to break into the subconscious where he can access his genius. But sometimes it feels complety locked behind a door.

Give yourself a talk..... Someone- take a minute to stop and settle your mind, cos the harder you try to be creative the harder it gets. And make it sound like someone, a common songwriting method of drawing inspiration from another musician and try emulate their sound.

It's almost like the narrator is creative mindset Elliott giving instruction to himself in the future next time he's in a rut, which most all artists go through, like a cycle.

Noise is coming out. So now he's starting to get into it, and at last he's playing something rather then staring at blank pages for hours.

If it's not out now, then tomorrow... Creativity is all about timing. Striking while the iron is hot. If he's not making any good riffs or lyrics, then it's just not gonna happen tonight. You can't force creativity. So call it a night, avid tomorrow or whenever, try again, just not tonight.

Next couple lines seem to stray from topic, but a point is made that, seems to actually be Elliott giving himself a bit if credit. He's not failures art, he knows how to write music, they were wrong. Elliott was so self defeating, but he knew he was proud of his songwriting skill. Very humble yeah.. But I know part of him was defensive and protective of his music. Because he's human, and if there is one thing Elliott was good at, it was.. Music.... Clearly.

Static in the head is all the thoughts and turmoil and noise of his thoughts that make any creative efforts totally frivolous.

Tried to go to where it let.... Anything...
-He tried following his weak attempts at forcing out average lines and progressions, but they' aren't satisfying or special and he knows it, so they all fall apart and quick quickly scrapped.

Then again, it's not out by now, so call it a night, come back to it in the future when you're back in the zone.

And it's interesting because when he was writing this song im sure he was in that perfect mind frame, so perhaps that's why he switches between referring to himself as 1st and 3rd person. At least I feel like when he says "you" it seems he simply means himself. Sometimes lyrics just sound better in different perspectives. If he was in that creative zone, you don't worry about things like that. Just put what sounds good. I think he mostly means "I" when he says "him" or "you" in most of his songs. This I've definitely sounds totally personal in my opinion, had nothing to do with anyone else but him.

Admittedly I probably formed this theory to make the song about me lol, because in this context all of what I wrote I relate to as a songwriter. But the theory sure seems to fit the lyrics well.

Regardless of what the song is about, this one is just a pleasure to perceive as a sound. It's so cool, and this one was mixed and mastered with wonderful sonic quality. Nice clean recording, which he did just as well as his lower fidelity style recording.

I always felt it would have been a better choice as track #1 on XO. Sweet Adeline is a good choice too, but I think tomorrow tomorrow has more impact and would have set the album off perfectly.

Ah well that's why I'm me a famous record producer lol.

Cheers,

Dustin