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

Restlin' the devil that tells him to pour another round

When the lights go down

She'll be callin' her friends from the Mercedes Benz

But it's too late now

They were there for the fame, the flash and thrill

The drop of the name, the parties, and pills

So 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

With this game that I play

Has gone another round

As I lay there alone in this big empty bed

Nothin' 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 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, woah oh

When the lights go down

Oh, when 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

Wonder what you're made of

Well, we all find out

When the lights go down

Ooo, when the lights go down upon