"Hard to See"

from the album War Is the Answer

Released

July 9, 2009

Genre

Alternative metal

Length

3:30

Prospect Park

Five Finger Death Punch singles chronology

"Stranger than Fiction"
(2008)

"Hard to See"
(2009)

"Walk Away"
(2009)

"Hard to See" is a song by American heavy metal band Five Finger Death Punch. The song was released as the first single from their second album War Is the Answer, 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 Mainstream Rock chart. It is the band's third top-ten single. It also reached number 28 on the Billboard Rock Songs 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."^[1]

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.^[2]

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 MLB 2K11. The song has been used in multiple NASCAR Racing 2003 Season crash videos on YouTube.

Track listing

CD single

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Hard to See"	3:30

UK 7-inch

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Hard to See"	3:30
2.	"Bulletproof"	3:16

DJ edition

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Hard to See"	3:30
2.	"Bad Company"	4:22

Personnel

Ivan Moody – vocals
Jason Hook – lead guitar, backing vocals
Zoltan Bathory – rhythm guitar
Matt Snell – bass, backing vocals
Jeremy Spencer – drums

References

^ Hard To See Songfacts
^ "AOL.com Video - You've Got Kareem Abdul-Jabbar". Video.aol.com. Retrieved 2012-02-20.

v t e Five Finger Death Punch
Zoltan Bathory Ivan Moody Chris Kael Charlie Engen Andy James Caleb Bingham Darrell Roberts Matt Snell Jeremy Spencer Jason Hook
Studio albums	The Way of the Fist (2007) War Is the Answer (2009) American Capitalist (2011) The Wrong Side of Heaven and the Righteous Side of Hell, Volume 1 (2013) The Wrong Side of Heaven and the Righteous Side of Hell, Volume 2 (2013) Got Your Six (2015) And Justice for None (2018) F8 (2020) AfterLife (2022)
Compilation albums	A Decade of Destruction (2017) A Decade of Destruction, Volume 2 (2020)
Singles	"The Bleeding" "Never Enough" "Stranger than Fiction" "Hard to See" "Walk Away" "Bad Company" "Far from Home" "Under and Over It" "Back for More" "Remember Everything" "Coming Down" "The Pride" "Lift Me Up" "Battle Born" "House of the Rising Sun" "Wrong Side of Heaven" "Jekyll and Hyde" "Wash It All Away" "My Nemesis" "Gone Away" "Blue on Black" "Sham Pain" "Inside Out" "A Little Bit Off"
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