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Song: The Greatest View
Artist: Silverchair (is that “S” supposed to be lower case anymore?)
Album: Diorama
Tabbed by: King of the Eskimos, 12/20/01
e-mail: kingoftheeskimos@silverchair.org
website: http://www.geocities.com/kingoftheeskimos
Intro Riff:
e--------------------------------------------------
B--------------------------------------------------
G-----2-1-0----------------------5--------5--------
D---2--------x-5-4-2--0-2-3--0-3---3--0-3---3-2-0-2
A--------------------------------------------------
E-0------------------------------------------------
Verse (very Radiohead-ish):
strumming pattern not indicated, you lazy bastards!
e--0---------0--0--0--0----------------------------
B--2----4----2--1--2--0----------------------------
G--2----2----2--2--2--1----------------------------
D--2----2----2--2--2--2----------------------------
A--0----0----0--0--0--2----------------------------
E---------------------0----------------------------
e--0-----------------------------------------------
B--2----4------------------------------------------
G--2----2----3-------------------------------------
D--2----2----3--3-5--------------------------------
A--0----0----1--3-5--------------------------------
E---------------1-3--------------------------------
Pre-Chorus:
e--0-0-0--0----------0---2-------------------------
B--3-2-0--0-0h2p0----1---3-------------------------
G--2-2-2--2-------2--0---2-------------------------
D--2-2-2--2----------2---0-------------------------
A--0-0-0--0----------3-----------------------------
E--------------------------------------------------
Riff immediately preceding Chorus:
e--------------------------------------------------
B--10---10--10/9--9/7--7/5-------------------------
G--------------------------------------------------
D--------------------------------------------------
A--------------------------------------------------
E--------------------------------------------------
Chorus: (not sure about the second chord…)
e--0----4----2-------5-----------------------------
B--2----2----3----7--6-----------------------------
G--2----2----4----7--7-----------------------------
D--2----2----4----7--7-----------------------------
A--0----0----2----5--5-----------------------------
E--------------------------------------------------
“i’m watching you watch over me…”
Interlude thingy:
just mess around with the pre-chorus chords
i think that’s mostly the whole song. there’s probably a few other little details i missed,
so if you find them e-mail me (address is at the top). i know there’s a variation on the
intro riff somewhere in the middle where it goes all crazy, but i am WAY too lazy to figure
that out now. oops; oh well. anyways, i’m done now. thanks for reading my tab; i can’t
wait for the new silverchair CD. peace out, rock the mullet.
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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques
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jga Average |
#1 by jga qup at Sep 3, 1977 at 10:45 PM EST |
| greatest veiw wasnt about the media it was about... Lyrically it is about people analysing your every move, after nb when he was really sick he had people looking over him all the time and making sure that he was alright. Although it was all coming from the right place and coming from there heart Daniel said that it came to point where he felt cage in by peoples analyse of him as a person, it’s a bout the feeling of constantly being watch over but once you learn to deal with that you ultimately have the greatest view | |
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Nic Rhythm Player |
#2 by Nic F at Jun 26, 1984 at 8:40 PM EST |
| Thank you for your comments! I think that this guy here is saying that he is in too deep with someone that probably doesn't deserve it. He can see it very clearly, what she is all about, but still he is attached to her. A kind of sick, unhealthy relationship, you can sense in Daniel's voice being dissapointed, sad or angry talking about that person, and also in the strong music :( | |
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Dan Average |
#3 by Dan Christopher at Aug 11, 1984 at 4:47 PM EST |
| it's always nice to see that there are some people out there who're as obsessed with this group as i am. i think everyone who's posted has the right idea about the song, but here's my interpretation.. (and keep in mind I just smoked a spliff) : this is one of my favourite songs because its an especially good hybrid of Daniel Johns' style of telling the story of the song through his (amazing, supernatural, other-worldly, godlike) voice, as well as through the music. Just take the opening riff for example - it's typical old-style Silverchair, hard and angry. Also, the video is full of chaps looking through peepholes into other doors, people looking around ("turning their heads whilst they wait for no one") to look at someone or something else, and some awesome CGI effects of Daniel and the rest of the group in a sort of X-ray effect. What it all hints at is looking closer, looking further than just the surface. But back to the opening riff - at first its heavy-metal, but then out of nowhere Daniel begins what seems to be a "cheesy" (and believe me I don't mean any discredit with the use of that word) love-song. The contrast between the riff and the verse suggest something hidden within something else... and finally I can move on.. The "Greatest View" that Daniel has, ladies and gentlemen, is in fact a a grand realisation, a threshold revelation that this person in whom he has placed so much fondness is, in reality, the antithesis of everything he wants. Thus the true meaning of the song is hidden within itself. I agree with most of what dearest helpless said above about the first verse... and I do think that the "when you want no one, and you got someone" line is a reference to 'the person's' frame-of-mind in their relationship with the Singer (note the capital "S"). But I'd like to point out an error in the above lyric sheet... In the first verse he says "and finally I know why you feel like letting go" ... but in the second he actually says "and finally I know why I feel you're letting me go" ... so he receives closure since he's realised that they're the "fungus in [his] milk"... The second verse's lyrics really are incredible - clearly he's talking about moving on, learning from his mistakes. And dearest helpless, as far as the "tactic toes" bit goes... packing one's toes is probably metaphorical of walking, leaving. The "winter" is also a metaphor, for the unknown. Winter represents difficulty, and literally it represents the cold. And then there's the best part.. "Chain a waterfall to burned and withered skin no one else will ever see" Again it's all metaphorical. Nothing about frozen waterfalls I think. He's saying cover up ("chain a waterfall") your wounds from this relationship ("burned and withered skin"), and bury them in your mind for no one else to see... This man is a poet. So yeah. That's what I think. Daniel - I love you. | |
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chris Wanna Be |
#4 by chris valverde at Jan 10, 1988 at 5:24 AM EST |
| love the intro and the part where its instrumental rock. i guess. Ü | |
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Matt Lead Player |
#5 by Matt Spencer at Aug 15, 1991 at 3:47 PM EST |
| anyone know when the single comes out in the US? | |
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justin Average |
#6 by justin tompkins at Mar 17, 1992 at 10:57 AM EST |
| the new album sure rocks! so different from their older ones.. but then it is quite awesome.. the orchestra and all.. such creative band i think :) | |
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LJ Average |
#7 by LJ at Feb 6, 1995 at 5:03 AM EST |
| the part where it says: "And laugh at burning dunes" it sounds like it says "and laugh at burning jews" so thats why im here. had to clarify things. lol | |
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Jeremy Average |
#8 by Jeremy Rees at Jul 12, 2001 at 9:00 AM EST |
| I hope Daniel gets better soon, Silverchair rock and they are great live, It would be a shame for them to have to stop making great music because of an illness, GET WELL SOON DANIEL | |
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michiel Wanna Be |
#9 by michiel adams at Apr 6, 2004 at 2:43 PM EST |
| ok this is so long... The Greatest View You're the analyst You've got the knowledge, you seem to know more about me than I do myself so do what you have to do. The fungus in my milk Fungi are some kind of bacteria I believe. What I do know is that milk is quite agressive against fungi and so a fungus is I think some kind of uninvited guest you don't want to have around. When you want no one And you got someone Proves my theory of the guest you would rather tell to beat it. I originally figured it was to do with having a bf/gf while you actually wanted to stay single. Through the wind you crawl And laugh at burning dunes When no one else will ever see You're the only one who sees it. It's in your own world, the world outside of the guest. It's apparently a place you feel safe and happy in as you move (crawling) and have positive emotions (laughing). It might be a description of a dream Daniel had, e.g. when the dr. drugged him with something. Now that you know why you feel like you do You've had the dream about the crawling and laughing. So outside of the real world you feel like you really do inside; away from the world you're happy. They're turning their head whilst they wait for no one People are doing something while doing nothing, not even waiting for someone. It doesn't say if they turn their head towards something/someone ("you"?) or if they turn their head AWAY instead. Do they want to help you, or do they pretend they've got better things to do like pretending to wait for someone. And finally I know why you feel like letting go So "I" understand the situation of "you". Looking forward to "the greatest view", "I" am overlooking the situation really well. "I" see what "you" are doing here on Earth, and looking back at the laughing/crawling world, "I" understand why "you" want to let go of this world and leave forever to the laughing/crawling world where everything looks better and brighter. I'm watching you watch over me And I've got the greatest view from here "I" have the greatest view, see above. "You" look back and know "I" am there for "you", and "you" know "I" know what "you" feel, that "you" are thinking of letting go to the better place, the dream world (I'm starting to think this song is about the struggle to stay/get out of a coma). Mistakes don't mean a thing If you don't regret them Especially this line has caught me. There is a basic truth in it, as we as humans don't have a stereotype behaviour some animals have. Stereotype behaviour means that there are "set schemes" to perform some kind of action, like a hedgehog which wants to defend itself ALWAYS rolls up into a ball, whether the "danger" is an animal about to eat or attack it, or a car which is about to overrun it. If you wouldn't regret your mistakes, you wouldn't learn of them and you wouldn't have learned the lesson that this action is not a good action but a mistake. So the relationship to the song is this; after this the song continues about making sure your toes don't suffer from frostbite or something. If you have already been in a bad situation and gotten out of that valley, make sure you don't fall in it again. This time you got over it, next time could be different. So pack your tactic toes for the winter Toes are specifically described as "tactic" here. Why that is, I'm not fully sure. In very cold winters it does happen that you have to wear some extra socks and more stuff to prevent your feet from freezing and --in a more severe form-- from frostbite. Maybe a "winter" is also a figure of speech here, for the aforementioned "valley" for example. At least the moral out of this is that you have to take precautions. Chain a waterfall to burned and withered skin Can you chain a waterfall to something? Yes, actually you can, but the waterfall has to be frozen (that exists, but rarely). Chaining a running waterfall is impossible. In both cases, though, the waterfall won't stay with the burned & withered skin. It'll either melt and go away, or it's already a liquid and it's gone before it arrived at the "wound". Thinking of my basic First Aid lessons, burned skin needs a lot of water, and a waterfall IS a lot of water. You just want to get rid of all the problems, pain, wounds, away from all the s*** like the waterfall wants to get away from the chains. All you just want to do despite of the "precautions" (see above), you want to get out of the valley as quick as possible and you need help; from the water - the water is there for you. | |
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