When the lights go down      He'll be a filling a pan with a broom in his hand in some dive 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 callin' her friends from her Mercedes Benz, but it's too late now   They were they 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      (Chorus)   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      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 inside your soul   And wonder what you're made of   Well we all find out when the light go down   When the lights go down