When the Lights Go Down

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 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 nothing 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, there is nothing 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-whoa When the lights go down, oh, and there's nothing left to be When the lights go down, yeah, and the truth is all you see When you feel that hole (hole) inside your soul (soul) And wonder what you're made of Well, we all find out, oh When the lights go down Ooh, when the lights go down, oh-oh