You Will Pay Tomorrow Lyrics - Terence Trent Darby

As I hold my head down 

Against a whipping hard rain babe 

Slaps me like a sheet 

Sheets of rain coming down 

As I dig my heels deep 

In a minefield of muddy water 

I hear a voice loud and low 

Stays with me wherever I go sayin' 

You will pay tomorrow for what 

You do today 

Accept this as a truth 

For old as well as youth 

You will pay tomorrow for what 

You do today 

As sure as you are born 

Though you may be weak and torn 

As a snake pulls up beside me 

Thinking that my name is Eve 

My dark side starts to chide me 

But I bring him down to his knees 

As I close my eyes tight 

Deep in meditation 

Peaceful sleep evades me 

But a low pitched drone invades me sayin' 

You will pay tomorrow for what 

You do today 

Though you run you cannot hide 

It's a truth that shall abide sayin' 

You will pay tomorrow for what 

You do today 

It will find you in the morning 

A heartache for your warning 

As I shake my head twice 

Saying I'd rather fight than switch 

I was land rich but penny poor 

But I couldn't tell which from which 

As my kneecaps break the fall 

Of my begging for grace and favour 

Bell, Book and Candle holds me 

But a spellbinding whisper scolds me saying 

You will pay tomorrow for what 

You do today 

Though your vision may be bleary 

And your eyes that see may be weary - but 

You will pay tomorrow for what 

You do today 

On your mind it will wear 

Ignore it if you dare 

As I shed my second skin 

Beneath a bullet box roller-coaster 

I view my transformation 

Through the veil of a jokester 

As I gain my second sight 

I shed a tear and I shake the crowd 

I used to rather be dead than humble 

But now I'd rather be dead than proud 

You will pay tomorrow for what 

You do today 

After deep time tossed confusion 

I came to my own conclusion that 

You will pay tomorrow for what 

You do today 

Accept this as a notion 

As fish breathe in the dirty ocean