When Tomorrow Comes

The song presents a speaker watching someone they love sleep and thinking about the distance between them. The sleeping person seems peaceful, while the speaker feels the weight of life’s disorder and wonders where the other person goes in their dreams. This uncertainty turns into a clear promise: the speaker will be there when needed. By the end, waiting for tomorrow sounds not merely patient but eager, because it means being together again.

Several images create this contrast. “Shades of sleep” suggests that sleep has carried the loved one away, even though they are physically nearby. The phrase “a dangerous world” makes the sleeping person seem childlike and vulnerable, while the speaker’s offer to be someone to “depend upon” expresses steady support. Looking at the stars and feeling “very small” places the couple within a vast universe; their closeness matters, even against that immense scale.

The song leaves some uncertainty about the relationship and the speaker’s worry. The loved one may simply be asleep, yet the speaker’s question about where they were hints at emotional distance or private thoughts that cannot be reached. Tomorrow may bring ordinary reunion rather than a dramatic change. The repeated promise suggests that, whatever the source of separation, companionship is what the speaker hopes to offer.