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You’re always a day away. <br>
You’re always a day away. <br>
:— “Tomorrow”, from ''Annie'' (1977)}}
:— “Tomorrow”, from ''Annie'' (1977)}}
“When budget allows” is a mystical, mythical time in the future that, like tomorrow, is always in the future, and as each day turns, get no nearer: the point where there will be budget, then, to do an urgent task that there is not budget to do ''now''. For is there is no interest to do it now, by the time next month rolls around people will say, but you’ve managed until now, haven’t you?
“When budget allows” is a mystical, mythical time in the future that, like tomorrow, is always in the future, and as each day turns, get no nearer: the point where there will be budget, then, to do an urgent task that there is not budget to do ''now''. For is there is insufficient interest to find money to do it ''now'', by the time next month rolls around people will say, but you’ve managed until now, haven’t you?  
 
It is rather like putting time quarter of an hour in the diary in four weeks time, to discuss something you want to know now.


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The sun’ll come out tomorrow
Bet your bottom dollar that tomorrow
There’ll be sun
Just thinkin’ about tomorrow
Clears away the cobwebs and the sorrow
’Til there’s none

Tomorrow, Tomorrow
I love ya Tomorrow!
You’re always a day away.

— “Tomorrow”, from Annie (1977)

“When budget allows” is a mystical, mythical time in the future that, like tomorrow, is always in the future, and as each day turns, get no nearer: the point where there will be budget, then, to do an urgent task that there is not budget to do now. For is there is insufficient interest to find money to do it now, by the time next month rolls around people will say, but you’ve managed until now, haven’t you?

It is rather like putting time quarter of an hour in the diary in four weeks time, to discuss something you want to know now.

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