Ray sings about that feeling you get on a long flight, having left the hustle and bustle for a bit, and you can just relax, detached from it all, looking out from your seat. The song is a bit worried. He seems happy to be able to escape the crowded streets below, and doesn’t seem ready to return to...
[Instrumental Intro]
[Chorus]
This time tomorrow, where will we be?
On a spaceship somewhere
Sailing across an empty sea
This time tomorrow, what will we know?
Will we still be here
Watching an in-flight movie show?
[Verse 1]
I'll leave the sun behind me
And I'll watch the clouds
As they sadly pass me by
Seven miles below me
I can see the world
And it ain't so big at all
[Alternate Chorus]
Oh, this time tomorrow
What will we see?
Fields full of houses
Endless rows of crowded streets
[Bridge]
I don't know where I'm going
I don't want to see
I feel the world below me
Looking up (Looking up, looking up)
Looking up at me
[Instrumental Break]
[Guitar Solo]
[Verse 2]
Leave the sun behind me
And I'll watch the clouds
As they sadly pass me by
And I'm in perpetual motion
And the world below
Doesn't matter much to me
[Chorus]
Well, this time tomorrow, where will we be?
On a spaceship somewhere
Sailing across an empty sea
[Outro]
Well, this time tomorrow, where will we be?
This time tomorrow, what will we see?
This time tomorrow
[Instrumental Outro]
This Time Tomorrow was written by Ray Davies.
This Time Tomorrow was produced by Ray Davies.
The Kinks released This Time Tomorrow on Fri Nov 27 1970.