Take Me to Tomorrow is, in many ways, a very dark album. The John Denver on the cover is not the John we know. He looks in at us through a window, as though he is somehow alienated from us. It is in great contrast to the cover of Rhymes & Reasons which shows a happy, smiling and youthful John at home in nature and in his bizarre shirts. As Jim Aylward's liner notes on the back of the album state, "[t]he songs are heavier and have something really important to say.... John Denver gets to you and makes you believe." Belief is, after all, what John's music is all about: the belief in love, the belief in a power much greater than us and the belief that, to paraphrase a line from the movie Oh, God!, we can make the world work. We have been given what it takes. On this album John explores both sides of human nature: the side that wants to make it work and the side that has given up all hope.
In this song John is despairing over the way things currently are and longs for a better day. This song sets the theme of the entire album: immense joy countered by immense despair. As one listens, each song brings forth a new emotion.
This is a quiet love song, in sharp contrast to the rock and roll track that preceeds it. Here John shows us how sweet his voice can be. While this song is not well-known, it is still a beautifully written and performed song that makes one want to fall in love. This, of course, comes from a hopeless romantic. *wink*