Five for Fighting - Two Lights
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Artist: Five for FightingBrand: Baker & Taylor
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2006-08-01
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
- Freedom Never Cries
- World
- California Justice
- The Riddle
- Two Lights
- 65 Mustang
- I Just Love You
- Policeman's Xmas Party
- Road To Heaven
- Johnny America
Free Music Notes for Two Lights
Free Music Review: One of the Year's Best
Hit: 5 Stars
Rather than rush to write a review, I took some time to listen to this CD and fully absorb it. To me, the test of a truly great album is not my impressions the first few days, but rather how I feel about the album when I go back to it over time (and if I go back to it over time). Two Lights sounded very promising on my first casual listen. However, to fully appreciate the depth of this wonderful album, you need to sit with the lyrics and listen carefully. Only then can you appreciate the vivid and personal stories that John is conveying. The music seems so much more "right" in the context of the lyrics. There are several songs that I find deeply connected to as a prior military person. The album starts strong with Freedom Never Cries - a non political song that reflects on how we take things, like freedom, for granted. The song Two Lights is very emotional and gets me choked up when I listen to it. It captures the emotion of a father with a son at war. I think of my parents when I was in the gulf war, and although I know it was difficult for them, this song really brings home what their emotions must have been like. The Riddle of course is the big hit and worthy of such success. I heard John tell his story behind 65 Mustang, the car his dad used to bring him home from the hospital, and he in turn brought his child home in this same car - very personal from John and a fun song that captures this spirit and nostalgia well. Makes me wish my Dad kept his old T-bird for us to enjoy today - oh well. I Just Love You is a warm and melodic love song. Policeman's Xmas Party just confused me the first time I heard it. The quirky song of the album just seemed a bit crazy at first, but unexpectedly, it has grown on me. I looked up the story behind this song which is based on a murder that took place in his house. I still don't get the story from the lyrics but the song sticks in your mind. Road to Heaven and Johnny America are both reflective songs, with the latter being an upbeat ending to the album - and I agree with the promising outlook for our country "nobody in a hundred years can touch him faults and all".
The messages of self reflection, appreciation and trying to be a better person are hopeful and heartwarming... and after listening to this album for some time now, it just gets better with age - and is perhaps John's finest outing yet.
Two Lights Poster
flexfield5On 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. --Tammy La Gorce
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