"Hard to See" is a song by American heavy metal band

Five Finger Death Punch Five Finger Death Punch, also abbreviated as 5FDP or FFDP, is an American heavy metal band from Las Vegas, Nevada, formed in 2005. The band originally consisted of vocalist and keyboardist Ivan Moody, rhythm guitarist Zoltan Bathory, lead g ...

. The song was released as the first single from their second album ''

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'', and their fourth single overall. The single was released on July 21, 2009. It is their fourth-highest charted single to date, peaking at number eight on the

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chart. It is the band's third top-ten single. It also reached number 28 on the ''Billboard''

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chart and number 40 on the Alternative Songs chart, their first appearance on either chart.

Background

The song is about people being too attached to opinions they've formed on limited amounts of information. Guitarist Zoltan Bathory explained: "It's about seemingly irresolvable differences. It's valid in just about any setting: politics, religion, relationships… Everything is 'only an opinion' based on limited information, yet people sometimes get attached to their point of views to the extreme… in fact, to the point they would launch wars over them." It began streaming on July 9, 2009, through '' Revolver''s website. The song began to receive radio airplay on July 13, 2009. The music video for the song premiered on August 28, 2009. The song is available for download for the '' Rock Band'' series through the Rock Band Network. The song appeared as an on-disc track in '' Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock''. It was also in the soundtrack for the video game ''

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''. The song has been used in multiple ''

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Track listing

CD single

UK 7-inch

DJ edition

Personnel

Ivan Moody Ivan L. Moody (born Ivan Lewis Greening on January 7, 1980) is an American singer and songwriter who is the lead vocalist of heavy metal band Five Finger Death Punch (FFDP). He performed for several other bands including Motograter and Ghost ...

– vocals *

Jason Hook Jason Hook (born Thomas Jason Grinstead) is a Canadian guitarist, best known as the former lead guitarist of the heavy metal band Five Finger Death Punch. Early life Born in Toronto, Ontario, Hook started his music career at the age of six ...

– lead guitar, backing vocals *

Zoltan Bathory Zoltan Bathory (born in 1978) is a Hungarian-American musician and martial artist. He is the founder and rhythm guitarist of Las Vegas-based heavy metal band Five Finger Death Punch. In 2010, he was named Golden God's "Best Shredder" by ''Meta ...

– rhythm guitar *Matt Snell – bass, backing vocals *

Jeremy Spencer Jeremy Cedric Spencer (born 4 July 1948) is a British musician, best known for playing slide guitar and piano in the original line-up of the rock band Fleetwood Mac. A member since Fleetwood Mac's inception in July 1967, he remained with th ...

– drums

References

{{authority control 2009 singles 2009 songs Five Finger Death Punch songs Song recordings produced by Kevin Churko Songs written by Zoltan Bathory Songs written by Ivan Moody (vocalist) Songs written by Jason Hook Songs written by Jeremy Spencer (drummer)