#10. “Tomorrow Tomorrow” by Elliott Smith

They took your life apart
And called your failures art
They were wrong, though
They won’t know ‘til tomorrow

#9. “Tomorrow” by Kiss

And tomorrow, we’re gonna fall in love, fall in love
Tomorrow, we’re gonna fall in love, fall in love, tomorrow, tomorrow
We’re gonna fall in love, fall in love, fall in love, fall in love with me
(But tonight, when the feeling feels so right, we got all the love we need)

#8. “I Don’t Care (If Tommorrow Never Comes)” by Hank Williams

My lonely mind wanders back to days that used to be
My broken heart cries out for you
Oh, if I can’t have you here, I can’t go on my dear
So I don’t care if tomorrow never comes.

#7. “Tomorrow is My Turn” by Nina Simone

Tomorrow is my turn to receive without giving
Make life worth living
Now it’s my life I’m living
My only concern for tomorrow is my turn

#6. “All Tomorrow’s Parties” by the Velvet Underground

A blackened shroud, a hand-me-down gown
Of rags and silks, a costume
Fit for one who sits and cries
For all tomorrow’s parties

#5. “Tomorrow is a Long Time” by Bob Dylan

If today was not an endless highway,
If tonight was not a crooked trail,
If tomorrow wasn’t such a long time,
Then lonesome would mean nothing to you at all.

Most impressive thing about this song: Dylan wrote it when he was 21.

Makes me feel like a failure.

#4. “Today Your Love, Tomorrow the World” by the Ramones

Little German boy
Being pushed around
Little German boy
In a German town
Today your love, tomorrow the world

A mantra to live by.

#3. “Tomorrow Never Knows” by the Beatles

That ignorance and haste may mourn the dead,
It is believing, it is believing,
But listen to the color of your dreams,
It is not living, it is not living.

I can’t imagine what it must have been like to purchase Revolver on August 5, 1966 and hear “Tomorrow Never Knows.” My generation knows the Beatles would go on to record Sgt. Pepper’s, “Strawberry Fields Forever,” etc., but for all those who living in 1966, how could they have been prepared for double-tracked vocals, a sitar, and a “backwards” guitar solo?

#2. “This Time Tomorrow” by the Kinks

Leave the sun behind me
And 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

Have you ever been on an airplane and, even though you’re flying over thousands, possibly millions of people, you don’t pay them any mind, as you’re too focused on where you’ll end up, where tomorrow will take you? That’s what Ray Davies masterpiece (sorry, “Waterloo Sunset”) is about, and it’s a great listen when you’re sick of the past and need to only look ahead.

#1. “Tomorrow” by Alicia Morton (from Annie)

The sun’ll come out, tomorrow
So you gotta hang on ‘til tomorrow
Come what may
Tomorrow! Tomorrow! I love ya, tomorrow
You’re always a day away

The other selections on this list are probably “better” than Annie’s song about when the sun will come out, but I don’t think I’m the only person who hears the word “tomorrow” and immediately thinks of the red-haired orphan.

And sometimes that’s more important than quality.

Honorable Mention goes to the 1960s’ British psychedelic rock group, Tomorrow: