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 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 a 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 [bad word] 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,
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 and there's nothing left to be,
When the lights go down and the [bad word] is all you see.
And I wonder if all my life's about the sum of all my fears,
And all my doubt, yeah, when the light's go down, oh-woah.

When the lights go down and there's nothing left to be,
When the lights go down, yeah and the [bad word] 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.

Oh, when the lights go down