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“When I Wake Up Tomorrow” is a song by American rock band Cheap Trick, released in 2016 as the second and final single from their seventeenth studio album Bang, Zoom, Crazy… Hello.
It was written by Julian Raymond, Robin Zander, Rick Nielsen and Tom Petersson, and produced by Raymond and Cheap Trick.
The music video features Nielsen playing his 1966 Gretsch 6123 guitar, which previously appeared in the video for the band’s 1982 song “If You Want My Love”:
I never thought that I would be like this before
I never wanted just one kiss for sure
Well, maybe I didn’t understand
All you wanted was a one night stand, well
Never thought that I would beg like this for moreThese days I wonder how I’m gonna make it tomorrow
These ways I’ll have to beg if I want to borrow
My love, here I’m on my knees
Please be here when I wake up tomorrowI never felt like this before
My love is flowing out for sure
Your lips upon my skin
Come out and let me in now
Never thought I’d beg like this for moreThese days I wonder how I’m gonna make it tomorrow
In these ways I’m praying there’s no need for sorrow
These days I wonder what will come of tomorrow
These ways I’ll have to beg if I want to borrow
Your love, here I’m on my knees
Please be here when I wake up tomorrow
Speaking of the song to Rolling Stone, Nielsen commented: “This song always reminds me of a sultry David Bowie song. I liked it from the first time we attempted to do it. It’s just a moody, interesting piece with some heavy guitars in the middle.”
In an interview with Rock Cellar, Zander spoke of the song and his vocal performance on it: “I sort of conjured [Bowie’s] style up in mind on the song. Even though I don’t sound exactly like Bowie, it was in my mind while I was doing the song, which creates a fresh kind of new thing.”
