Music Monday

Tomorrow is Coming

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Tomorrow is Coming, was co-commissioned by the CBC and the Coalition for Music Education. This song was recorded and produced in the CBC Vancouver Production Centre.

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A Message from Luke Doucet

Tomorrow is Coming is a deliberately optimistic piece that offers music as a positive place to channel the many emotional ups & downs that we all encounter in our lives. We are often told to express emotions in a muted way (don’t vocalize anger, don’t boast about your achievements, etc) but in music, all emotions are fair and can have a place. “when they tell you every little thing you’ve done is wrong, don’t let it bring you down, no; put it in a song” or “when life is so good you want to make it last long, don’t keep it to yourself, no; put it in a song”.

These sentiments are central to the songs core intention and the chorus: “tomorrow is coming, tomorrow is coming. just like every other day, it’s always been that way & that’s the only thing i know” communicates that good things can be prolonged and second chances will present themselves.

Writing for a group as diverse as public school students, whose ages and levels of maturity will span a wide range, is quite an undertaking but ultimately, what I would hope is that young people will simply find inspiration from the music.

-Luke Doucet

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About Luke Doucet

Juno Award nominated, Canadian Folk Music Award winning artist Luke Doucet has won Canadian and international praise and has topped Best Of lists by The Independent in the UK and the Toronto Star, which gave Blood’s Too Rich the Top Album of the Year in 2009. The album also caught the attention of Nick Hornby, author of High Fidelity, who blogged twice about the record and included Luke in his 2008 Top Ten Playlist. Luke also landed #25 on Paste Magazine’s Top 100 of the Year with the album Broken (and other rogue states).

Against the backdrop of industry and urban renewal, with bats in the attic and feet moving over city and country, the songs of Steel City Trawler emerged line-by-line, kilometer by kilometer. Steel City Trawler comes from the heart of the post-industrial landscape and mindset, where traces of rock eras past and present align with Doucet’s signature guitar chops. From sunup to Sundown, Steel City Trawler is more a day in the life of Luke Doucet than any record before. The album is a finely balanced mix of clever turns of phrase, chords and moods, irreverent bouncy rockers and tender, spacious ballads.

From Winnipeg to Nashville, Cleveland to Hamilton, geography is a constant theme in Luke’s songwriting. Luke is constantly on tour, overseas, across Europe and to South Africa, across Canada and the US, including tours with Blue Rodeo, James Blunt, Josh Rouse and the Cayamo Cruises with all manners of legendary artists. He regularly showcases at conferences from SXSW, the AMAs, NXNE, PopComm and CMW. This summer, Luke toured with Sarah McLachlan as her guitarist throughout the Lilith festival circuit. Luke’s records are often artifacts of these times and places, and always blend personal with political, history with experience. Steel City Trawler is no exception, and it is a fresh and cohesive rock and roll record from an artist who traverses genres like highways.

Luke is proud to be associated with Music Monday and the Coalition for Music Education through the penning of his song, Tomorrow is Coming.

Please visit Luke’s website for more info: www.lukedoucet.com

Lyric and Lead Sheet

Tomorrow is coming. Tomorrow is coming.

Just like every other day
It’s always been that way
& that’s the only thing I know

But I know you’ve got a story you can tell
I see it in your face,
I know you know it well

So sing it from your heart Even when you’re alone
Don’t keep it to yourself No, put it in a song

‘Cause tomorrow is coming. Tomorrow is coming
When the moonlight’s on
You know another day is gone
And that’s the only thing I know

And everybody should play their guitars
No not because they wanna be stars
But if they tell you every little thing you do is wrong
Don’t let it bring you down
No put it in a song

Tomorrow is coming. Tomorrow is coming.
Just like every other day
It’s always been that way
And that’s the only thing I know

Everything, everything, everything, everything’s
gonna be ok.
Everything, everything, everything’s,
gonna be alright.

So scream it from the top of the hill
Scream it to the sky until the wind is still
When life is so good you wanna make it last long
Don’t keep it to yourself no, put it in a song. Don’t keep it to yourself no put it in a song.

‘Cause tomorrow is coming. Tomorrow is coming.

When the moonlight’s on
You know another day is gone
And that’s the only thing I know

Song Credits

Tomorrow is Coming
Music and Lyrics by Luke Doucet (SOCAN, 2010)
c/o Six Shooter Records
“Tomorrow is Coming” was created for Music Monday with the support of CBC Radio Commissions
www.cbc.ca/compose ;
All rights reserved. Used by permission.

Luke Doucet’s song, Tomorrow is Coming, was recorded and produced in the CBC Vancouver Production Centre. Performers on the recording include Luke Doucet (vocals/guitar), Chloe Doucet-Winkleman (vocals), Brian Minato (bass) and Barry Mirochnick (drums), along with the junior choir of the Sarah McLachlan Music Outreach project under the direction of Hussein Janmohamed. We are grateful to all the musicians and singers and everyone at CBC Radio 2 and 3 for their support.