After learning guitar at the age of 12, Scaggs met Steve Miller at St. Mark's School of Texas in Dallas. In 1959, he became the vocalist for Miller's band The Marksmen. The pair later attended the University of Wisconsin together, playing in blues bands like The Ardells and The Fabulous Knight Trains. Leaving school, Scaggs briefly left Texas to join the burgeoning rhythm and blues scene in London. After singing in bands such as The Wigs and Mother Earth, he recorded his first solo album Boz in 1965, which was not a commercial success. He traveled to Sweden as a solo performer and did a brief stint with the band The Other Side with fellow American Jack Downing and Brit Mac MacLeod.
Returning to the US, Scaggs promptly headed for the booming psychedelic music center of San Francisco in 1967. Linking up with Steve Miller again, he appeared on the Steve Miller Band's first two albums Children of the Future and Sailor, which won over critical reviews. After being spotted by Rolling Stone publisher Jann Wenner, Scaggs secured a solo contract with Atlantic Records in 1968. Despite good reviews, his first Atlantic album was met with lukewarm sales, as were followup albums on Columbia Records. In 1976, he linked up with session musicians who would later form Toto and recorded his smash album Silk Degrees. The album reached number 2 on the US charts and number 1 in a number of countries across the world, spawning three hit singles: "Lowdown", "Lido Shuffle", and "What Can I Say", as well as the MOR standard "We're All Alone", later a hit for Rita Coolidge. A sellout world tour followed, but his follow-up album, the 1977 Down Two Then Left, lacked the cohesion of Silk Degrees.
Scaggs' 1980 album Middle Man would spawn two top 20 hits, "Breakdown Dead Ahead" and "Jojo," and Scaggs would enjoy two more hits over 1980 and 1981 ("Look What You've Done to Me" from the Urban Cowboy soundtrack, and "Miss Sun" from a greatest hits set).
Scaggs continued to record and tour sporadically throughout the 1980s and 1990s, although he semi-retired from the music business and turned owner of the San Francisco nightclub Slim's. His lengthy hiatus from the music industry slowed his chart career down dramatically.
Scaggs recorded Other Roads in 1988, took another hiatus, and then came back in 1994 with Some Change. In the late 190s he released Come On Home, an album of blues, and My Time, an anthology. He garnered good reviews with Dig, although the CD, which was released on September 11, 2001, was lost in the post-911 melée. In May, 2003, Scaggs released But Beautiful, a collection of jazz standards that debuted at number 1 on the jazz charts.
In 2013 he released the album Memphis
Love Me Tomorrow
Boz Scaggs Lyrics
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But I know it's not in your eyes.
You say you can't take it night and day
But I know It's an alibi.
Deja where did we go wrong?
Why said that you'd be mine 'til the end of time.
Love me tomorrow, love me tomorrow
I say it's a sad sort of play when you never let in my lines.
You say that I'm better off this way but I know it's all in your mind.
Deja where did we go wrong?
Why' said that you'd be mine 'til the end of time.
Love me tomorrow, love me tomorrow
Forget all your sorrow, love me tomorrow
Deja where did we go wrong?
Why' said that you'd be mine 'til the end of time.
Love me tomorrow, love me tomorrow
Forget all your sorrow, love me tomorrow
Ah-ooo
Hoo hoo hoo-hoo-hoo
Boz Scaggs’s song “Love Me Tomorrow” is a reflection of the confusion and uncertainty in a relationship. The lyrics describe a situation where one partner is unsure about their commitment to the relationship despite promising to love them anyway, while their significant other doubts their sincerity by reading through their body language. The singer expresses his frustration at not being able to get through to his partner and the feeling that it is all a game. In the chorus, the singer is begging his love to give him a chance to prove his worth and to love him tomorrow, despite their problems.
The lines "Deja where did we go wrong? Why said that you'd be mine 'til the end of time." capture the sense of confusion that arises when a relationship falls apart, and the singer is left wondering what went wrong. The repetition of “Love me tomorrow” and “forget all your sorrow” show the singer’s desperation to make things right in their relationship, to forget all the past hurts and problems, and to focus on a brighter future. The song is a plea for a second chance and an embrace of the hope that the future holds.
Line by Line Meaning
You say that you'll love me anyway
You claim to love me regardless of the circumstance
But I know it's not in your eyes.
But I can tell from your facial expression that this statement is untrue
You say you can't take it night and day
You claim that you cannot handle our love continuously
But I know It's an alibi.
But I suspect this is just an excuse
Deja where did we go wrong?
I have a sense of familiarity, where did we make a mistake?
Why said that you'd be mine 'til the end of time.
Why did you promise me forever?
Love me tomorrow, love me tomorrow
Love me a bit later, tomorrow could be another day
I say it's a sad sort of play when you never let in my lines.
I feel like it's a depressing act when you refuse to listen to me
You say that I'm better off this way
You claim that I am better off without you
But I know it's all in your mind.
But I understand that you are only thinking that way
Forget all your sorrow, love me tomorrow
Let go of all your sadness and try loving me again the next day
Ah-ooo
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Hoo hoo hoo-hoo-hoo
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Written by: DAVID PAICH
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