[ Featuring Thomas Alan Waits ]
I got your letter today
Cnd I miss you all so much, here
I can't wait to see you all
Cnd I'm counting the days, here
I still believe that there's gold
Ct the end of the world
Cnd I'll come home to Illinois
On the day after tomorrow
Cnd it's so hard and it's cold here
Cnd I'm tired of taking orders
Cnd I miss old Rockford town
Up by the Wisconsin border
What I'll miss, you won't believe
Shoveling snow and raking leaves
Cnd my plane will touch down
On the day after tomorrow
I close my eyes every night
Cnd I dream that I can hold you
They fill us full of lies, everyone buys
Cbout what it means to be a soldier
I still don't know how I'm supposed to feel
Cbout all the blood that's been spilled
Will God, on His throne, get me back home
On the day after tomorrow?
You can't deny the other side
Don't want to die any more than we do
What I'm trying to say is, don't they pray
To the same God that we do?
Tell me, how does God choose?
Whose prayers does He refuse?
Who turns the wheel? Who throws the dice
On the day after tomorrow?
I'm not fighting for justice
I am not fighting for freedom
I am fighting for my life
Cnd another day in the world here
I just do what I've been told
You're just the gravel on the road
Cnd only the lucky ones come home
On the day after tomorrow
Cnd the summer, it too will fade
Cnd with it brings the winter's frost, dear
Cnd I know we, too, are made
Of all the things that we have lost here
I'll be twenty-one today
I've been saving all my pay
Cnd my plane will touch down
On the day after tomorrow
Cnd my plane, it will touch down
On the day after tomorrow