When the Lights Go Down

When the lights go down

He'll be filling a pan with a broom in his hand

In some drive across town

He'll be wiping the bar and mopping the floor

Counting his tips and locking the doors

Wrestling the devil that tells him to pour

Another round

When the lights go down

She'll be calling 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's 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

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

When the lights go down

Ooh, when the lights go down, oh