Red Light Company - With Lights Out

possibly one of my favorite tracks from recent years, "With Lights Out" is from Red Light Company, a five-piece multinational alternative rock band based in London, England.






















Red Light Company have been named as one of the hottest new bands of 2009 by both NME and HMV.

The band was formed in 2007 by members :

• Richard Frenneaux (vocals/guitar)
• Shawn Day (bass)
• James Griffiths (drums)
• Paul Mellon (guitar)
  
• Chris Edmonds (keyboards)
  

The band is formed out of the ashes of Frenneaux and Griffiths' former band Dirty Perfect. They came together following an advert Richard posted on the internet, to which Shawn quickly responded, and moved from his home in Wyoming, United States to London in order to pursue making music with the rest of the group.

The song, "With Lights Out", about a childhood friend of Frenneaux's who committed suicide, was released as a single in 2008 without much chart success.
The album "Fine Fascination" though did fairly well in the UK peaking at #13.

audio clips :
With Lights Out

With Lights Out (instrumental version)


BUY the album "Fine Fascination"

lyrics : (check out the Lou Reed-like spoken segment at 2:20)
It's just red and white
Get a little older and that's alright
Seven years colder by the sight
Bought you some flowers and every day gets longer

I guessed you might
Get a little quieter and that's alright
Still I keep holding on to you
Bleach scarred honey there, sleeping pills aren't stronger

Hit the walls on my back
To reconcile with lights out
Falling down the lighthouse
Still I found your little toy soldier buried under

It's a heavy malign
Ceremony breakdown every time
Bells keep ringing out loud in rhyme
As my heart beats faster every breath gets stronger

I can't rewind
Or even move forward and that's alright
Still I keep holding on with you
Bleach scarred honey there, sleeping pills aren't stronger

Hit the walls on my back
To reconcile with lights out
Falling down the light house
Still I found your little toy soldier buried under

Set alight its a slow burn, bury me
Set alight its a slow burn, bury me
Keep alight and keep secrets buried beneath
Set alight its a slow burn, bury me

Hit the walls on my back
To reconcile with lights out
Falling down the light house
Still I found your little toy soldier buried under