ARTIST: Five For Fighting
TITLE: Two Lights
LABEL: Aware/Columbia
GENRE: Rock
BITRATE: 211kbps avg
PLAYTIME: 0h 43min total
RELEASE DATE: 2006-08-01
RIP DATE: 2006-07-26

Track List

01. Freedom Never Cries             4:22
02. World                           3:52
03. California Justice              4:22
04. The Riddle                      3:49
05. Two Lights                      4:45
06. '65 Mustang                     4:22
07. I Just Love You                 4:02
08. Policeman's Xmas Party          4:09
09. Road To Heaven                  5:36
10. Johnny America                  4:14

Release Notes:

On his third disc, the one-man musical marvel known as Five for Fighting
proves yet again that all that's standing between him and peace of
mind--not the fleeting kind, but full-on, to-the-bone, heart-and
soul-cleansing peace of mind--is a song. Two Lights picks up where America
Town left off, diving smack-dab into the national consciousness and
hitting, predictably, a sorrowful spot. First track "Freedom Never Cries"
is a self-skewering lament that calls out to complacent countrymen by way
of confession and an artful, piano-enhanced weighing of consequence. It's
followed by "World," which reminds unpreachily, and not unpleasantly, that
"history starts now." Where Two Lights better resembles 2004's hugely
successful The Battle for Everything is in its more inward-looking tracks,
the tender first single "The Riddle" among them. There, and on the near
criminally pretty "I Just Love You," the mush-hearted may find themselves
fighting the urge to hug the closest stranger. But despite his
now-dependable dips into mopiness, John Ondrasik--Five for Fighting to you
and the rest of the world--doesn't deny himself the opportunity to rock
when he wants to. If anything makes this guy happy, it's the state of
California: on "California Justice," he kicks off his shoes and works on
his tan like a latter-day Beach Boy from the dark side, and "'65 Mustang"
rambles down the coast with the kind of carefree vibe that, outside of a
song, only a convertible can deliver.