Carpenter promoted "Eyes Wide Open" with several live performances, including on Radio Disney Music Awards 2015, where she did a medley with her single "We'll Be the Stars".

[2][3] In an interview with Justine Magazine, Carpenter said that "Eyes Wide Open" was her favorite track of the album.

[3] "Eyes Wide Open" was written sometime in late 2014 and early 2015 by Jerrod Bettis, Audra Mae and Meghan Kabir.

Tony Maserati mixed the track and the recording session took place at The Guest House, located in North Hollywood, California.

In terms of music notation, "Eyes Wide Open" was composed using 44 common time in the key of F minor, with a moderate tempo of 88 beats per minute.

[5] The production of the song is backed by catchy background vocals, a piano and a simple bass beat.

[6] In the second verse, the line "This dream burns inside of me / And I can’t just let it go", Carpenter decides to keep on going albeit with caution.

The lyrics in themselves are powerful enough ("All I have is just this moment / And I don't want to miss a second / 'Cause it could all be gone in an instant"), but with the anthemic beat she put behind it, Carpenter seems unstoppable with this track.

"[13] "Eyes Wide Open" was first performed on Radio Disney Music Awards 2015, where she did a medley with her single "We'll Be the Stars".

[14] She performed the song at D23 Expo in 2015 along with "Take on the World", "Can't Blame a Girl for Trying", a cover of "FourFiveSeconds", "The Middle of Starting Over" and "We'll Be the Stars".