Sky Is Falling by Lifehouse

Album: Stanley Climbfall (2002)

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Lead singer Jason Wade explained: "I wrote this after September 11th. I didn't write it specifically about that, but it's my observation on how quickly people can fall back into their everyday lives even after something unbelievably terrible has happened."

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Christine from Jaffrey, NhBy the way, in another interview he said he [also] wrote it while in a Starbucks or someplace like it and the TV was displaying those Columbine shootings and such, and two girls were watching. They made a single comment about it, then went back to talking about the mall and stuff. he said that it's like the song says "The sky is falling and no one knows"...there is so much happening that people ignore

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