Tomorrow is a Long Time

from Visitors by Howard Simon

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erhaps my favorite Dylan song of all. So simple and evocative, with a directness that can’t be constructed or song-crafted but only felt – it’s been a good and essential friend for decades. And to have the great Happy Traum playing on it is beyond a dream – I grew up listening to him play with his brother Artie and with Dylan on Greatest Hits, Vol. 2, and I was privileged to meet him in 2015, when I attended Richard Thompson’s Frets & Refrains music camp, where Happy is faculty. To have Happy Traum appear on an album of my songs is something I couldn’t have imagined any more than leading a mission to Mars. To say I’m grateful doesn’t even begin to scratch the surface. And his playing, as it only could be, is perfect . . .

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Tomorrow is a Long Time

If today was not a crooked 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

Yes, and only if my own true love was waitin’
And if I could hear her heart a-softly poundin’
And only if she was lyin’ by me
Then I’d lie in my bed once again

I can’t see my reflection in the water
I can’t speak the sounds that show no pain
I can’t hear the echo of my footsteps
Or remember the sound of my own name

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There’s beauty in that silver, singin’ river
There’s beauty in the sunrise in the sky
But none of these and nothing else can touch the beauty
That I remember in my true love’s eyes

Chorus

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from Visitors, released June 27, 2016

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Howard Simon San Francisco, California

I am a San Francisco-based singer-songwriter. My songs are about love (romantic and otherwise), family, morality and mortality. If there is a common thread to my songs, it is the people we love, the desire to do right, and the hope and fear, the peace and the struggle that constitute life bring wonder in addition to its joy and sadness, and sometimes loss. ... more

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