Album: October (1981)

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• Won't you come back tomorrow?
  Won't you come back tomorrow?
  Won't you come back tomorrow?
  Can I sleep tonight?
  
  Outside
  Somebody's outside
  Somebody's knocking at the door
  There's a black car parked
  At the side of the road
  Don't go to the door
  Don't go to the door
  
  I'm going out
  I'm going outside mother
  I'm going out there
  
  Won't you be back tomorrow?
  Won't you be back tomorrow?
  Will you be back tomorrow? La, la, la, la
  
  Who broke the window?
  Who broke down the door?
  Who tore the curtain?
  And who was he for?
  Who healed the wounds?
  Who heals the scars?
  Open the door
  Open the door
  
  Won't you come back tomorrow?
  Won't you be back tomorrow?
  Will you be back tomorrow?
  Can I sleep tonight?
  
  'Cause I want you, I, I want you
  I really, I, I want, I, I
  I want you to be back tomorrow
  I want you to be back tomorrow
  Will you be back tomorrow?
  
  Won't you be back tomorrow?
  Won't you be back tomorrow?
  Will you be back tomorrow?
  Open up, open up
  To the lamb of God
  To the love of he who made
  The blind to see
  He's coming back
  He's coming back
  Oh believe it
  Jesus's coming
  
  I'm gonna be there
  I'm gonna be there mother
  I'm gonna be there mother
  I'm going out there, ooh Writer/s: Adam Clayton, Dave Evans, Larry Mullen, Paul Hewson
  Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
  Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 6

• David from Woburn, MaI absolutely love the pipe solo at the beginning and the eventual crescendo in the middle of the song.
• Steve from Torrance, CaAdam Clayton, from the book "Touch the Flame": "My favorite track always changes, but I think the melancholy of "Tomorrow" has it. It could have been a more finished song, but it's a very honest song. The pipes were a good direction to try. I'd like to use them more, but it becomes a caricature if you use them too much."
• Steve from Torrance, CaBono, from the book "Touch the Flame": "I think the October album goes into areas that most rock'n'roll bands ignore. When I listen to it, something like "Tomorrow", it actually moves me. We were all affected by travelling and being away from home, which was a recurring theme on that album. Like "Tomorrow" - I never thought much about home until I was away from it."
• Acrobat from Adelaide, AustraliaI thought it was about his MOTHERS funeral... not his grandfathers.
• Chris from Melbourne, AustraliaThe song is actually about the funeral of Bono's maternal grandfather, in April 1974. The "black cars" and Bono's calls to his mother (who died while mourning at the funeral!!) are the major nuances here.
• Erik from Davis, CaOh by the way, an Uilleann Pipe is the Irish bagpipe, also heard in Phil Collin's "True Colors" (himself a piper though he plays the Scottish Pipes) and throughout the "Braveheart," "The Devil's Own" and "Titanic" soundtracks, to name a few plus a multitude of commercials. Also used heavily in "Riverdance." In a sense, the Uilleann pipes aren't all that unusual. "Uilleann" means "elbow" in Irish Gaelic hence the use of bellows to wind the pipes and the bellows and bag are pumped by the elbows. They are about as loud as two violins and are capable of two octaves.

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