My controversial opinion for the day:
I think The Looking Glass is a failure as a song. Now, don't get me wrong, I love the song as I love the whole album. But before the album came out, when JP was doing a song by song description of the album, he described wanting to make this song have a smiliar energy to a stadium rock song. And in that respect, I think it did not succeed at all, IMO. The one key aspect of stadium rock is that it's very Anthemic as a subgenre. Every stadium rock act I could think of from Bon Jovi, to Queen, to Europe was ridiculously catchy, and had a lot of (as much as I hate this term) singalongability. Even if you think it's cheesy, you have to admit, when it comes on, there's something about it that just stirs up some inert energy and gets the energy going. In terms of the energy and spirit, I'd say modern European Power Metal acts are the equivalent of old school Stadium Rock acts.
With The Looking Glass, it doesn't evoke that kind of energy for me at all. Great song, but it did not live up to the hype that JP built up by comparing it to stadium rock.