Lights Out (Breaking Benjamin song)

"Lights Out"
Single by Breaking Benjamin
from the album Dear Agony
Released	June 15, 2010
Genre	Alternative metal nu metal
Length	3:34
Label	Hollywood
Songwriter(s)	Benjamin Burnley Jasen Rauch
Producer(s)	David Bendeth
Breaking Benjamin singles chronology
"Give Me a Sign" (2010) "Lights Out" (2010) "Blow Me Away" (2010)

"Lights Out" is a song by American rock band Breaking Benjamin. The song was released in June 2010 as the third single from their fourth album Dear Agony . ^[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 number 40 on the Mainstream Rock chart. It has also reached the Hot Rock Songs and Alternative Songs charts. AOL rated the song as the number-one alternative song of 2010. ^[3]

Charts

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

References

1. "Yahoo!". www.aolradioblog.com. Archived from the original on March 2, 2012.
2. "EXCLUSIVE: Ben Burnley interview transcript | the Weekender, Northeast PA". Archived from the original on 2011-07-17. Retrieved 2015-04-21.
3. "Yahoo!". www.aolradioblog.com. Archived from the original on August 18, 2010.
4. "Lights Out - Breaking Benjamin". Billboard . Retrieved July 5, 2010.