I’ll believe in tomorrow

I’ll believe in tomorrow (Behind the song)

It was about the year 1974 and things were not so good, prices were high and gas prices were shocking and  long lines were forming at stations. It was not easy to believe in today, at least those days in 1974, but oh how things have changed. I was without work at the time since we had just returned from living in Spain for the two years previously. We had returned so my wife could give birth to our daughter which took place in March of 1975.  I visited a friend in Sacramento who had a junkyard to see how he was doing. After the  visit he ask me if I was working yet, and offered to let me use one of his extra tow trucks to buy junk cars and sell them for the metal. Thus began my first job which required the strength of a young man to prep each vehicles for the crusher. I had dreams up in my hat for I thought we would be able to return to Spain in a few months. A young man is usually very idealistic and eventually has to come down to earth. So I worked hard with my two hands and we survived. Difficulties came and time in hospitals and things were not so rosy. I wrote the song during this period. I will wait on the sorrow if I know there is a way I will calm this lump of clay cries  the words of the song.  I knew that one doesn’t have the capacity to always turn things around, as the song alludes to thousands who have tried. So I continued with my nose to the grind realizing that dreams don’t always come true but you can survive if you don’ t give up but keep keeping on. At least I had a strong founded hope in a future not in any man including me but in the creator who spoke of , “a hope of the everlasting life that God, who cannot lie, promised long ago”.—Titus 1:2.   And Isaiah 65:23 assures us , “They will not toil for nothing, Nor will they bear children for distress, Because they are the offspring made up of those blessed by Jehovah, And their descendants with them.” Therefore I could believe in tomorrow for eventually there would be a wonderful eternal  life without the stresses and disappointments of this life.  These are the inspirations behind the song.

LYRICS

I’ll Believe in tomorrow

(intro chorus)
G7
I’ll Believe in tomorrow, if I can’t believe in today
C
I’ll take a hopefull way

G7
I’ll endure all the sorrow, if I know there’s a way
I’ll calm this lump of clay

( I’ll calm this lump of clay-add to final chorus 2nd time)

C

D

Em

C
1. I once was a young man with dreams up in my hat
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G

C
And the pouring rain never brought a doubt
Dm

G7

C
But you know a young man has to turn himself around
F

G7 C
He can’t always be a clown X

(Center Chorus below)

C

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A young man sees tomorrow, but he wants it today
He only sees his way

G7
Pretty dreams hide the sorrow until they fade away
c
And leave the light of day

MINO D

2.

I once had two hands and I worked all my life
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Em

F
And we always had enough to keep alive
Dm
But you know the living then didn’t cost that much
But its fighting now just to keep alive
( intro chorus y)

C

D
3. I once was a trusting man and I believed every word
Then came the hunger pains and I still did without
But you know every young man has to turn the world
Dm

F
Is it 7000 or 8 that have gone down
G7

C

C

F
I’ll hope in tomorrow, but not in any man today
G7

That’s the disappointing way
I’ll wait on the sorrow until it fades away
G7

But not on a lump of clay

(Finish with intro chorus)