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Will Tomorrow Ever Come?

from EXPERIENCE by MATT YOUNG (May 2011)

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This was sung by Holly Young aged 11.
First version written by Matt in 1982, aged 16 while sitting in Hyde Park Sydney having lunch during "work experience" and observing a poor homeless man. The song has come a long way since then but the story has never changed.

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An old man lying on a park bench seat just a tattered black coat to warm his heart at night
rain hail shine it reall makes no difference to a man who sees many a storm why does he live like this?
A bottle of cheap wine lying on the ground below, just a drop left from the night before but he'll never know of course, cus he lives from day to day will tomorrow ever come?
Ask me questions you will get no answers cus this old man he knows not the answers himself, and this old man theres so much he will miss I've seen rich I've seen poor but noone as poor as this
and when in the cold night air he stumbles to his feet
he will stagger across the road who knows, maybe there a meal in the street, has a dog felt sympathetic and thought that tomorrow may never come

Ask this man, ask this man, will tomorrow ever come, will tomorrow ever ever come( will tomorrow ever ever come)

One of these night he may not be so lucky, the dogs and the cats and the mice and the rats may not be on his side
and one cold night the garbage man will have been, and his heart and his sole will decide that theres nothing to fill his bowl,
and deep down inside he knows that theres somewhere better to be
and its just around the corner he knows, heaven is the place to go
its a place that knows no poverty where laughter replaces the tears

Ask this man, ask this man, will tomorrow ever come, will tomorrow ever ever come he don't know
he don't know know know know know.........

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from EXPERIENCE, track released January 2, 2011
Written by Matt Young
Recorded at Blacksands Music Studio Auckland
ian_rushton@hotmail.com

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