V/A: Lookout Freakout Volume 1

Tomorrow is a Harsh Mistress

This is no time or place to wake up
but there are things to do and space to take up
I'm in love with something I dreamed about
I'm in love, but it's not really there
I'm in love with something I said in a prayer.

Tomorrow is a harsh mistress
that I don't want to wake up to.
which I force myself to do
I guess I'm a harsh mistress, too.

I'm what you might call
the once and future nothing at all

I believe in something the cat dragged in
I believe but I think it's a crime
I believe in what tasted all right at the time

Tomorrow is a harsh mistress
but that won't matter anyhow
'cause I stayed in bed all day
who's the harsh mistress now?

Hey yeah, that's right
'cause yesterday took all night
that's right, you bet
yesterday's not over yet.

With each passing day, a world destroyed,
all the things I've worked so hard to avoid
the future's unwritten, so they say
and I'm just trying to keep it that way
OK? OK?

Tomorrow is a harsh mistress
that I don't want to wake up to
which I force myself to do
I guess I'm a harsh mistress, too.

I'm in love with something I dreamed about
I believe but it's not really there.
I'm in love with something I dreamed about
I'm in love but it's not really there.

You want to know why because everybody does
but it never seems to work out for us
all anyone ever knows is it's not all roses
and it seems like it never was
you want to know how this could be
but don't look at me
cause I don't know why I do waht I do
when it comes to you
don't ask me, ask Beth

I'll try to change myself for you cause I adore you
but it's looking like it's too late
and passive-aggressors and sloppy dressers
all build up the pressures you hate
I'd explain it all to you
and I'm trying to
but there's no way I can say
everything that's wrong in my world today
don't ask me, ask Beth

Ask Beth, maybe she can tell you
why we can never get anything right
ask Beth if she knows why time just goes by
and we're both crying tonight
ask Beth

These are the best years of our lives
and if one of us survives
he or she will refer to how wonderful they were
but for now I just don't know

why are we in agony?
will you please stop asking me
ask Beth