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 wiping the bar and moppin the floor
countin' his tips and lockin' the doors
wrestlin' 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 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

CHORUS
when the lights go down
and theres 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 made of,
well, we find out,
when the lights go down.

when the lights go down,
in the end of the day
when this game that i play
has gone another round
as i lay there alone in this big empty bed
with nothing but thoughts of you in my head
i think of the things i wish i had said
when you were still around

when the lights go down,yeah
and theres 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

REPEAT CHORUS