"The Good Left Undone" is the third single from

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's fourth full-length album, ''

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''. The song impacted radio on May 22, 2007. In June 2007, the band announced they would be holding a contest to determine who could make the best video for the song. They released a bulletin over their

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account giving information about the contest. On June 25, 2007, the band premiered their own video on MTV's website, as well as on MTV2 every hour. The song peaked at number six on the ''Billboard''

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chart, Rise Against's second top 10 single (the first being the previous single "

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") and the highest-charting single from the album. The song spent 30 weeks on the chart prior to this peak, making it the band's slowest climb to the chart's top 10.

Music video

The video was shot in 2006 and released in 2007. It shows a girl, who is collecting various kinds of flowers. When she comes to field of sunflowers then appear Tim, Zach, Joe and Brandon, which are dug under ground in glass bottles. At the end the girl pulls out of the land the flowers and the musicians can see bright sun rays.

Composition

In an interview with theredalert.com front man Tim McIlrath was asked if the instrumental part at the end of the song was originally a separate piece of music. He replied: "That one was actually pure collaboration. With a lot of our songs,

Joe Principe Joseph Daniel Principe (; born November 14, 1974) is an American musician. He is the bassist, backing vocalist, and co-founder of the punk rock band Rise Against. He is also straight edge, a vegan, an animal rights advocate, and actively prom ...

will write the whole thing, or I'll write the whole thing, or Chris Chasse will write the whole thing, and then we'll all collaborate on little parts here and there. But 'The Good Left Undone' was really all 4 of us,

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included, all adding our own two cents." After the bridge of "Survive", the guitar part is that of the instrumental between "The Good Left Undone" and "Survive".

Chart performance

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

References

External links

* 2007 singles Rise Against songs Songs written by Tim McIlrath Songs written by Joe Principe Songs written by Brandon Barnes 2006 songs Geffen Records singles {{punk-song-stub