During an interview, drummer John Humphrey stated that "Tonight" is one of the last songs the band wrote.
"Shaun had put together a demo for the song, and he was playing it for Dale [Stuart, bass player] and I.
We were sitting in line at Starbucks, and Shaun started playing the demo off his iPod, and we were like, 'this song is awesome, man.'
"[2] When asked about which songs were the favorites Shaun Morgan talked about how the song almost didn't make it onto the album since he hadn't shown it to the band yet and later explained "But one morning I woke up before dawn, in a really good mood, and completely changed the lyrics to positive lyrics.
[4] The music video directed by Seth Dennemann premiered on 31 October 2011 on Vevo and on iTunes the next day.