Tomorrow

Daniel Johns and Ben Gillies wrote "Tomorrow" while the pair were still performing under the name Innocent Criminals, the Newcastle band they had formed in 1992 with bassist Chris Joannou. Early in 1994, the group recorded demos of the song along with "Acid Rain", "Cicada" and "Pure Massacre" at Platinum Sound Studios, a session Johns remembered as costing about $75 and lasting under an hour. That demo of "Tomorrow" went for roughly six minutes and won them the national Pick Me competition run by the SBS TV show Nomad and Triple J, a prize that included a professionally recorded version and a music video.

The Triple J recording was released on 16 September 1994 as the title track of a four-track EP that also carried "Acid Rain", "Blind" and "Stoned". From late October it spent six weeks at number one on the ARIA Singles Chart, and in February 1995 it topped the New Zealand chart as well. A re-recorded version appeared on the band's debut album Frogstomp in March 1995 and became the most-played song on US modern rock radio that year.

Johns later explained the song's origin, saying it was inspired by a TV show in which a poor man guided a rich one through a hotel to experience the lives of the less fortunate, with the rich man told he had to wait until tomorrow to leave. Gillies recalled the first time the band played it together, saying it felt like an electric spark and that they were all doing their own thing but in sync.