Songfacts®:

• "Someday" is the closing track on Josh Ritter's 2023 album Spectral Lines. It's a song about hope and resilience in the face of adversity. The lyrics speak to the experiences of the "little guy" who is often exploited and taken advantage of by the powerful.
• The song is hopeful, but also cautious. Ritter knows that the world can be a cruel place, but believes there is still hope for a better future. The song ends with the line, "Someday there's gonna be justice. Will it be today?"
  
  This lyric leaves the listener with a sense of hope, but also with the realization that change takes time and effort.
• "Someday" came to Ritter walking the dog. "Inside my belief that justice is a force in our lives, either by its presence or absence, it's also the question of when its presence will be made manifest," he told UK newspaper The Sun. "We all know that justice is in short supply. The question is why and when that might change. This era is nothing if not marked by imminence."
• Spectral Lines is Josh Ritter's 11th studio album. Sam Kassirer, a member of Ritter's Royal City Band, produced the record.
• Spectral Lines is a departure from Ritter's previous work in some ways. The songs are more experimental and atmospheric, with a wider range of instrumentation. They focus less on stories and more on moods and image.
• After recording his previous album, 2019's Fever Breaks with Jason Isbell and his band The 400 Unit, Josh Ritter returned to recording with his Royal City Band for Spectral Lines.