Many Rise Against songs deal with politics, but this one is a relationship story. In the song, lead singer Tim McIlrath has reached a breaking point with someone where they have to move on.
In an interview with The Red Alert, Rise Against frontman 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) 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 four of us, Brandon (Barnes) included, all adding our own two cents."
"The Good Left Undone" was the third single from Rise Against's fourth album, The Sufferer & The Witness. The song reached #10 on the Modern Rock chart week ending February 2, 2008 in its 30th chart week, the longest time it had taken any song to reach the Top 10 in the history of this chart. The previous record-holder for the slowest climb to the Top 10 on the Modern Rock chart was Sick Puppies' "All the Same." The Australian rock band's song arrived in the Top 10 in 2007 in its 25th week on the list.
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