Heaven

In a 2004 interview, Live lead singer Ed Kowalczyk said this song is about the birth of his first daughter, Ana. "She brought forth in me a kind of understanding that I had been longing for that I couldn't get without her. I wrote 'Heaven' when I saw her ultrasound at about seven months and figured out that she was a girl. That was enough. It was like, here we go, now."

Kowalczyk elaborated on the song meaning in an interview with the Netherlands' OOR Magazine, saying, "'Heaven' personifies the meaning of the album. It's very explicit in a way, I have always been searching for something spiritual, I always battled the big questions about life, God and religion. The lyrics of 'Heaven' are about my daughter ending my search for spirituality. A birth is so non-abstract, so real and touchable. It's really easy to abstracise concepts about spirituality, God and love. These are concepts, not reality. At their best they are potential reality, but they are still thoughts. The birth of my daughter kind of terminated my adolescent search for God or the higher, that lasted about 10 years."

Kowalczyk described Birds Of Pray as "the sound of a band restarting its engines." He explained, "It's a return to a sound that we're really comfortable with, that is very familiar - four guys, guitars, lots of dynamic shifts, lots of emotion."