Eyes Wide Open (Commentary)

Joachim Speidel:

Track 1 is called "Eyes Wide Open". We didn't really have a title for this song for a really long time. When we first came up with the album concept, we wanted to have a theme track, and then that would be like the first track of the melodic section and the first track of the heavy section, which would be kind of like the same theme but just different takes of it.

Stuart Brookes:

They're kind of like introductions to each side of the album. That's a good way to think about it.

Joachim:

And then the actual title came from a vocal line that Stuart added later, where he goes, "Eyes wide open, see what's broken", and we just took that first half for the theme 1 and the second half for like the second theme, the darker one.

Stuart:

Yeah, and when you listen a little bit closer, you'll be able to hear that same vocal line in both of those tracks, just sort of processed a little bit differently.