Seize the Day (song)

"Seize the Day" is the fourth single from Avenged Sevenfold's album, City of Evil. Unlike the last three singles from this album, "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. The video itself also happens to be very similar to Guns N' Roses' video "November Rain".

Music video

The video is based on a couple in love and expecting a child. Matt's friends (the rest of Avenged Sevenfold) 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, while in jail Matt's girlfriend comes to visit him. They get into a fight; while driving home his girlfriend is hit by a van. In the showing of the funeral scene, her body is lowered into the ground; Synyster Gates is shown playing the guitar solo on top of her casket. 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. He picks up his son and they all walk away. Seize the Day is a song which is a lot different from the others in the album 'City of Evil', and 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". "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."