When the lights go down he'll be fillin a pan with a broom in his had in some dive across town he'll be wiping the bar moppin the floor countin his tips lockin 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 its too late now they were there 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 when the lights go down and theres 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 you 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 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 and theres 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 when the lights go down when the lights go down and theres 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 you wonder what you're made of well we all find out when the lights go down oo when the lights go down