When the lights go down
He'll be fillin' a pan
with a broom in his hand
in some dive across town
He'll be wipin' the bar
And moppin' the floor
Countin' his tips
And lockin' the doors
Wrestling the Devil that
tells him to pour
another round
When the lights go down
She'll be callin' her friends
from her Mercedes Benz
But it's too late now
They were there for the fame
The flash and the thrill
For the drop of the name
The parties the pills
As another star falls
from the Hollywood Hills
without a sound
When the lights go down
And there's nothin' left to be
When the lights go down
And the truth is all you see
When you feel that hole
inside your soul
And wonder what you're
made of well we all find out
When the lights go down
When the lights go down
At the end of the day
when this game that I play
has gone another round
As I lay there alone
on this big empty bed
With nothing but thoughts
of you in my head
I think of the things
that I wish I had said
When you were still around
When the lights go down
Yeah
And there's nothin' left to be
When the lights go down
And the truth is all you see
And I wonder if
all my life's about
the sum of all my fears
And all my doubts
Yeah
When the lights go down
Oh wo
When the lights go down
And there's nothin' left to be
When the lights go down
Yeah and the truth is
all you see
When you feel that hole
inside your soul
And wonder what you're
made of well we all find out
When the lights go down
Oo when the lights go down
Oh no