Album: Frogstomp (1995)

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• Unexpecting brother
  Doesn't know what to do
  When everything just falls to the ground oh
  He runs to find some cover
  He doesn't have a clue
  That his friend will never be found
  When he's informed that he
  Will never see the boy
  Will never see the boy
  You'll never see him open his eyes
  We'll never see the boy
  Never see the boy
  You'll only hear his heavenly cries
  
  Oh yeah oh oh oh
  
  Thinking of the past,
  It's all over now,
  Mother nature's striked once again,
  It happened oh so fast,
  Now the question's how,
  How could they let that building descend
  
  Oh, yeah, oh
  
  You will never see the boy,
  You will never see the boy,
  You will never see him open his eyes,
  You will never see the boy,
  Never see the boy,
  You'll only hear his heavenly cries
  
  Oh, yeah, oh, oh, oh,
  Yeah, no no never, no oh
  
  After your life, I leave, I'm dead,
  Leading me off through the night,
  If he's born again, I need you to find,
  Need you to find, where he is. Writer/s: BEN GILLIES, DANIEL JOHNS
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Comments: 6

• Kan from NswThis was not written about a friend of the band. It was just something Daniel was thinking about at the time. Newcastle is on a fault line and there was an earthquake in 89 that killed 13 (but silverchair were only kids) and another minor earthquake nearby in 1994….but no one died…
• Ness from AustraliaThere's exactly ZERO chance that Daniel Johns lost a friend in the Newcastle Earthquake. He was 10 the day the earthquake hit. There was no trapped child in the rubble who died. The youngest person to die that day was 30, and he wasn't a local. The next youngest person to die was in their 50's. Daniel Johns did NOT write this song about a friend who died.
• Lynny from Adelaidedo you honestly think in the 25 years Silverchair has been around they created & accomplished more than Nirvana in their 6 years?
• Rebecca from Newcastle AustraliaI live in Newcastle Australia where Silverchair is from. We don't experience several earth quakes a year. Rather this song is about a particular earthquake that happened in 1989 which was one of Australia's greatest natural disasters. In fact I don't think we have had an earthquake (outside of mining areas) since this event.
• P from Z, United Statesin the book about silverchair called "tommorow never knows" it qoutes Daniel Johns as saying that the lyrics were not about anyone he knew and this was about an earthquake he saw on the news. so your sources may be faulty
• Zach from Norman, Oki love this song, but i never had a clue as to what it was about until now. silver chair is amazing. way better than nirvana

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