Concrete Blonde - Tomorrow Wendy

This song written and originally recorded by Wall of Voodoo's Andy Prieboy as the lead single from his 1990 solo album Upon My Wicked Son. Prieboy recorded the song as a duet with Johnette Napolitano, as he felt the song needed a woman's voice in addition to his own. Originally he wrote a total of 27 verses for the song and then whittled them down to three. After recording the vocals on Prieboy's version, Napolitano was so moved by the song that she asked for permission to record the song with Concrete Blonde. And, due to the vagaries of recording and release dates, the version here by Concrete Blonde actually came out first by a couple months. "Tomorrow, Wendy" was the closing track on Bloodletting because the band considered it to be "the blackest song on the record", and really, this is probably the darkest and most depressing video I've ever made.
The song was inspired by the suicide of a woman Prieboy had known from a childhood growing up in East Chicago, Indiana. Wendy later turned to prostitution and drugs, and when she was diagnosed with HIV, she decided to commit suicide by taking a heroin overdose rather than go on to die from AIDS-related complications. Dark indeed, hence the video is just as bleak.
Please, if you're still reading this and are in a bad place, seek help. Talk to someone. There's always hope and a better way out of the darkness. Hell, shoot me an email if you need to. You matter; I'll listen.
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Beautiful voice love it ❤