He fantasizes over what the future holds for him, pondering whether he'll still be on the plane, "watching an in-flight movie show", and dreaming of being "on a spaceship somewhere sailing across an empty sea."
[2] "This Time Tomorrow" was first featured as the opening track on the second side of the Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One album, and was not released as a single.
In his album review, Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic called the song one of "three of [Ray Davies's] best melancholy ballads" on Lola Versus Powerman (the other two being "Get Back in Line" and "A Long Way From Home".
Paste Magazine placed this appearance at number nine on its list of the thirteen "Great Musical Moments in Wes Anderson Movies.
In May 2014, a cover of the song by Gaz Coombes was used in a TV advertisement "Never Standing Still" to mark the 150th anniversary of retailer John Lewis.