Pop rockers Five for Fighting [ tickets ] will head out on the road this fall in support of their recently released studio album, "Two Lights."

The band will begin its 22-date outing Oct. 5 in Minneapolis, with the first leg of the tour concentrating on clubs and small theaters in the Midwest before heading off to scour both coasts.

Spearheaded by singer/guitarist John Ondrasik--the group's only constant member--the band scored a Top 10 hit in 2001 when the nation embraced the single "Superman (It's Not Easy)" in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks. Ondrasik and his bandmates performed the song at the benefit Concert for New York City that winter.

"Two Lights," which hit stores Aug. 1, follows 2004's "The Battle for Everything," and was produced by Ondrasik with two of his bandmates, bassist Curt Schneider and guitarist Andrew Williams.

The album continues a political streak that emerged in Ondrasik's music with "America Town," with a title track that recalls Ondrasik's dinner with a young soldier bound for Iraq and his father.

"I talked with the kid's father," Ondrasik said in the band's online bio. "In that moment, I saw a mixture of pride and fear in the old man's eyes. I wanted to write a song that talked about the reality of how these parents feel. The simple thing of 'Two Lights' is two lives: the father's and the son's. That's what inspired this song, the look of pride and fear in a father's eye."