"Open Your Eyes" is a song by the rock band

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. The song, which is one of the band's biggest hits, was released as the first single off their 2004 debut album ''

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''. It peaked at No. 2 on the US

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chart in 2004, the band's highest charting single on that chart until " Isolation" reached No. 1 in 2011. The song "Save Me", which appears on the soundtrack for '' Elektra'', is also on the "Open Your Eyes" single as a b-side. Like many songs on the album, "Open Your Eyes" is about regrets and is one of the six songs on the record co-written by singer

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. The chorus seems to be encouraging peace. Lead guitarist

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originally wanted "Down to My Last" to be the first single, but the record company rejected it, saying it sounded too much like

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, the then-former band of Tremonti, bassist

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, and drummer Scott Phillips. "Open Your Eyes" was chosen instead. During live performances, the band usually plays "Open Your Eyes" either as the last song before the encore or as part of the encore as the penultimate song before closer "

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." The midsection of the song is often extended in concert and typically involves the crowd joining Kennedy in singing.

Track listing

# "Open Your Eyes" (radio edit) – 4:31 # "Open Your Eyes" (album version) – 4:58 # "Save Me" – 3:27 # "Open Your Eyes" (music video)

Chart performance

Other media

*An edited version of the song was featured in the 2004 video game ''

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''. *After the

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won the

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in 2004, a live video of Alter Bridge performing "Open Your Eyes" with then-Red Sox players

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, and

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surfaced on the internet and was later posted temporarily on the band's website after they left Wind-Up Records. *The band performed the song at the 2005 MLB All-Star Game in

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with Damon and

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onstage.

References

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