This song began with the chord sequence on the piano. I had fallen over and badly hurt my ankle the day before, so I recall I was in some pain as I stood at the piano searching for inspiration.

Perhaps as a distraction from the physical ache in my ankle, I found myself becoming captivated by the emotional ache of the movement between two chords; D major to a G sus 2 with a B in the bass. Usually the G would be in the bass for a G chord, and the B would be in the chord itself, but I had stumbled across putting the B in the bass and putting an A – the suspended second note of the scale – in the right hand.

Before I go any further, I should say that I don’t really see myself as a piano player. I know my way round the piano, but I have learned what I know aboutt the piano by transferring what I know about the guitar. I know very few songs or piano pieces. But I find it a fantastic way of songwriting; in particular, the way it allows you to overlay one chord over another or to do something different with the left and right hand. I also find myself making more mistakes on the piano than I do on the guitar, and mistakes can be a great source of inspiration – happy accidents you might say.

Once the basic harmonic bed was there, with the four chord sequence, I started experimenting with just singing the first things that came to my head. After a few minutes, the title phrase came to me; it seemed to fit the music, and said something to me about trying to be optimistic, about a time not too far into the future.

I often feel I’m not very good at living in the present, so am often either looking back at yesterday or looking forward at tomorrow. This song somehow manages to blend all of this, by imagining myself in the future, looking back at today as being the past.