Songfacts®:

• In this song, Extreme lead singer Gary Cherone takes a hard look at himself and wonders if he's on the right path. These are tough questions, asking if he's holding true to his values or living a lie. It's tinged with religious imagery as he looks to the afterlife:
  
  This peace I seek
  Till thy kingdom comes
  
  Cherone is Christian, and questions of faith often show up in his lyrics. The most blatant example is the 1995 Extreme song "There Is No God," which has a different meaning than the title implies.
• Gary Cerone told Songfacts that this is one of the band's most important songs, calling it "powerful" and "lyrically, self-reflecting."
• The song is part of a 22-minute orchestral suite called Everything Under The Sun that's part of the third Extreme album, III Sides To Every Story. It's the second of three sections, following "Rise 'n Shine" and "Who Cares?" The band used a 70-piece orchestra for this section recorded at Abbey Road studios in London.
• The spoken interlude at the four-minute mark ("Indulgentiam, absolutionem...") is in Latin, delivering the statement a Catholic priest would say at the end of a confessional. It roughly translates to:
  
  May the almighty and merciful God
  Grant you indulgence, absolution, and remission of all your sins
  
  According to the liner notes in the album, the priest is voiced by Dr. Edward de R. Cayia.
• The III Sides To Every Story album is the follow-up to Pornograffitti, which contains Extreme's two big hits, "More Than Words" and "Hole Hearted." III Sides To Every Story had just two minor hits, "Rest in Peace" and "Stop The World," but is more ambitious, with a "three sides" concept. The first side is a collection of rocked-out songs called "Yours," followed by the more mellow "Mine," and finally "The Truth," which is made up of the Everything Under The Sun orchestral suite.