Lights Out (Breaking Benjamin song)

"Lights Out"
Single by Breaking Benjamin
from the album Dear Agony
Released June 15, 2010
Genre Alternative metal
Length 3:34
Label Hollywood
Writer(s) Benjamin Burnley & Jasen Rauch
Breaking Benjamin singles chronology
"Blow Me Away"
(2010)
"Lights Out"
(2010)
"Failure"
(2015)
Dear Agony track listing
"Anthem of the Angels"
(7)
"Lights Out"
(8)
"Dear Agony"
(9)

"Lights Out", is the third single from post-grunge/alternative metal band Breaking Benjamin's 2009 album Dear Agony. (fourth single originally after Blow Me Away) The song was released as a radio single on June 15, 2010.[1]

Background

An interview with The Weekender, Ben talked about his writing with Jasen Rauch:

We had toured before, years ago, and he had given me a CD of early RED stuff. It was all just bits and pieces, it was really in the early stages. I loved it, I loved everything on it. Jasen and I are two of the same mind in a lot of ways, especially writing, and he just basically writes songs how I would like them to be written and writes songs that I would want to write myself. It started, and I did a song on the RED album, and we had, just in fun, worked on some other stuff and took it from there. Now, I consider him to be kind of my partner in crime and my writing partner and I definitely look forward to doing a lot more things with him in the future.

He and I did four together. He did the outro of “I Will Not Bow” after the last chorus, he and I equally wrote “Without You,” he wrote the riff and some other things in a song called “Lights Out,” and he and I wrote “Hopeless.”[2]

Track listing

Promotional single
No. Title Length
1. "Lights Out"   3:35
2. "Lights Out"   3:35
3. "Lights Out"   3:35
4. "Short Research Hook"   0:12
5. "Long Research Hook"   0:17

Chart performance

"Lights Out" debuted at #40 on the Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks. Since then, it has climbed the Mainstream, Rock and Alternative charts. AOL has rated this song as the number 1 alternative song of 2010.[3]

Charts

Chart (2010)[4] Peak
position
US Billboard Rock Songs 21
US Billboard Alternative Songs 29
US Billboard Mainstream Rock 9

References

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