Maybe Tomorrow

Maybe Tomorrow
(kathy hussey)

August heat
And I can't bear
Your wooly scarf still hanging there
Tartan green
By the slammed door
All the things you left behind that's just two more
And it seems like yesterday

Maybe tomorrow
I'll get around to it someday
Maybe tomorrow
I'll sweep these scraps of you away
Maybe tomorrow
But not today

I don't go
Near our old room
Sealed it up like a pharoah's tomb
To stir the dust
Could tempt a curse
Remember or forget, I can't tell which is worse
And it still seems like yesterday

Maybe tomorrow
I'll get around to it someday
Maybe tomorrow
I'll sweep these scraps of you away
Maybe tomorrow
But not today

I could find the time
There's just too much to undo
And this mess is all that I have left of you

Maybe tomorrow...

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The Story:

February 19-23 2003

Maybe Tomorrow was a Debut Tuesday* title - and it generated two album cuts
(David Llewellyn also wrote a haunting and beautiful song with this title that he
included on his 2004 self-titled release) and at least one other really good keeper
(for Alan Oatley)...so, anyway...

In my living room, there are a couple of hooks between the front door and the coat closet.
As I was toying with what to write about using this title, I was staring over there at a dark
green plaid wool scarf...it was summer in Nashville, at the time, which means blistering
hot and clinging sticky , and I thought "Well isn't that the height of procrastination? It would
take 2.5 seconds to put that scarf away for the season, but there it is". Hey - procrastination!
Maybe Tomorrow!

So I invented this situation in which the scarf represented someone who had gone away,
and the procrastination, or not cleaning up what remained of him or the relationship, was
based on not wanting it to be over yet.

"August heat
And I can't bear
Your wooly scarf still hanging there
Tartan green
By the slammed door
All the things you left behind
That's just two more..."

This is one of very few of my songs that are completely fictional...entirely possible, but
completely fictional.

* Debut Tuesday - I have run a writers night in nashville for many years,
   and one of the fun things that we do is pick a title every month...
   everyone who writes a song with that title "debuts" them on the last
  Tuesday of each month...