Tell Me Why is a companion album to Australian singer songwriter Archie Roach's memoir of the same name.

[5] The album's lead single "Open Your Eyes" was released on 27 September 2019.

Roach wrote "Open Your Eyes" in the late 1970s during a stint in rehab at Galiamble, a Men's Alcohol and Drug Recovery Centre in St Kilda.

During whatever free time I had outside of our chores and the AA meetings, I would have with me a guitar, a pen and a notebook.

One time, as I started writing what I thought was a poem, having always loved poetry, I looked down at the words: 'At fifteen I left my home, looking for the people I call my own, but all I found was pain and strife'.