Album: Here Come The Miracles
Year: 2001
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Of course, it’s possible that I kept playing Here Come The Miracles in order to get to its last song, the joyful singalong “There Will Come a Day,” which just might be my favorite song of his entire solo career.
Kicking off with a classic chord progression and featuring Chris Cacavas — who’d been playing with Wynn since the Danny & Dusty days — doubling both organ and piano, “There Will Come a Day” features a bluesy garage-folk sound over which Wynn decides he’s had enough.
I was thinking of my troubles
As people sometimes will
Everyone who had done me wrong
And those who would wrong me still
And in a fit of desperation
I found myself on my knees
Wishing pain and suffering
On all my enemies
And with drummer Linda Pitmon and bassist Dave DeCastro driving the mid-tempo groove, he details exactly what he wants to do those enemies.
I prayed for loss of limb
And lingering disease
Of blight and devastation
And assorted miseries
But as I made my wishes
And as I cast my spells
I stopped myself and said a prayer
And said these words to myself
And that prayer turns out to be one of the most infectious choruses that Wynn will ever write, a fantastic ode to patience and karma, with much of the band singing harmony.
There will come a day
There will come a day
When all of the evil
Will be washed away
The patient will be rewarded
And their tormentors will pay
There will come a day, lord
There will come a day
After that, Chris Brokaw, who’d been lurking around the edges of the song, takes a long slide guitar solo, leading to a somewhat quieter where Wynn basically repeats the the first half of the first verse and the last half of the second verse, getting us right back to the chorus, and more importantly the coda, which is basically this: Wynn, now joined by everybody in the band, and a few others, singing “there will come a day” over and over and over and over and over while both Brokaw and Cacavas solo their hearts out, but still totally overcome by the massed vocals. Everybody sing!
There will come a day
There will come a day
There will come a day
There will come a day
There will come a day
There will come a day
There will come a day
There will come a day
There will come a day
There will come a day
There will come a day
There will come a day
There will come a day
There will come a day
There will come a day
There will come a day
In the end, as the song finally ends, everybody gives themselves and each other a round of applause, because they fucking well deserve one.
“There Will Come a Day”
“There Will Come a Day” Live acoustic with Chris Cacavas, 2018
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