Seize the Day (song)

Infobox Single
Name = Seize the Day


Caption =
Artist = Avenged Sevenfold
from Album = City of Evil
Released = July 7, 2006
Format =
Recorded =
Genre = Power ballad
Hard rock
Length = 5:32
Label = Warner Bros. Records
Writer = Avenged Sevenfold
Producer = Mudrock and Avenged Sevenfold
Certification =
Chart position = #1Musiqueplus
Last single = "Beast and the Harlot"
(2005)
This single = ""Seize the Day"
(2006)
Next single = "Walk"
(2007)
Misc ="Seize the Day" is the fourth single from Avenged Sevenfold's album, "City of Evil". "Seize the Day" is different from other tracks in the album; unlike the album's other three singles — "Beast and the Harlot", "Bat Country", and "Burn It Down" — this song is a soft power ballad. Many fans have noted that this song is similar to the Guns N' Roses song "Don't Cry" and Bon Jovi song "Always" due to the guitar solo, vocal texture, harmonic progressions, and rhythm.

Music video

The video depicts a couple - Of which the man in it is the frontman and vocalist of Avenged Sevenfold, Matt "M. Shadows" Sanders - in love and expecting a child. Matt's friends (the rest of the band) come to his house to make plans to rob a liquor store. In the process, Matt gets caught by the police while the others drive off, leaving him behind. Matt goes to jail, whereafter Matt's girlfriend comes to visit him. They get into a fight; while driving home his girlfriend, played by Matt's longtime girlfriend and fiancee Valary Dibenedetto, is hit by a van. A funeral scene follows, and her casket is lowered into the ground; Synyster Gates is shown playing the song's guitar solo on top of her casket. However, at around 3:25 of the music video, Synyster Gates is seen standing in the crowd. At the end of the video, Matt is at her grave, with their son, who had survived the crash, and is also standing over her grave when the rest of the band come over to him. Matt picks up his son, and they all walk away.

The video tells a story, similar to the Guns N' Roses' video 'November Rain'. M. Shadows said, "It's not us driving around in cool cars and just chilling, you know? It has a story and Guns N' Roses did those videos the best. It wasn't about looking cool and being flashy, it was about being real and showing the scenario and being true to the video." They also made a remake of the video from the band Anderson's song Trial and Temptation by making it where they go and rob the store.Fact|date=January 2008

"We wanted to do a more emotional video this time," Shadows explained. "We have a lot of strippers and stuff like that in our other videos, so we wanted to be much more serious. It's about taking the people you love and holding them close. You make some mistakes in life and that can all be taken away from you in two minutes, so you have to think twice about your actions. It's about seizing the day and keeping those you love close and not messing up."

External links

* [http://www.plyrics.com/lyrics/avengedsevenfold/seizetheday.html Seize the Day lyrics at plyrics.com]