Gorillaz – Tomorrow Comes Today

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  General Comment:I think its about him saying, "I reserve my accountability" until 98% of everything else on this planed starts to work as -fucking advertized-

  Flag elwoood13on April 29, 2013   Link

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  General Comment:I think it's taken from the perspective of how he just doesn't care about anything anymore. "I'll pay
  When tomorrow
  Tomorrow comes today" He's talking about his rent and his bills and how he's not going to pay them because he just doesn't care about it anymore.

  Flagged fadingmemoryon May 27, 2012   Link

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  My Interpretation: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.

  Flag wizzbooon April 15, 2012   Link

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    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.
    
    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

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  General Comment:I always think of the book 1984 :)

  Flag Mononokeon December 19, 2011   Link

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  General Comment:"when tomorrow comes today" is the transition to eternity. The song deals with Damon's feelings on the common presentation of the afterlife.

  Flag funkitup4yaon July 07, 2011   Link

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  General Comment:this song is so depressing and beautiful at the same time like "someone great" by "lcd soundsystem"

  Flag TheClockworkLungon February 18, 2010   Link

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  General Comment:You know? Like there is an evening newspaper printed before it is completely relevant.

  Flag prettindyon September 29, 2009   Link

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  General Comment:'Tomorrow Comes Today' is referring to the press.
  This is Damon Albarn expressing his view on the paparazzi.
  He doesn't want to buy into the press.
  So he's saying in quite a chippy manner, that he'll only pay if tomorrow's newspaper comes today.

  Flag prettindyon September 29, 2009   Link

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  General Comment: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.

  Flagged Thevolatilon July 20, 2009   Link

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  General Comment: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.

  Flag empireofstereonon June 22, 2009   Link

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    Amazing song.

    Flag diseasedracoonon February 24, 2013  

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