When the lights go down
He'll be filling a pan with a broom in his hand
And some dive across town
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 her 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
Another star falls from the Hollywood hills
Without a sound
When the lights go down
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
You're wondering 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
Is going another way
As I lay here alone
In this big empty bed
Nothing but thoughts of you in my head
I think of the things that I wished I'd have said
When you were still around
When the lights go down
There's nothing left to be
When the lights go down
The truth is all you see
You're wondering what my life's about
It's the sum of all my fears
And all my doubts
When the lights go down
When the lights go down
When the lights go down
You're wondering what you're made of
Well, we all find out
When the lights go down
When the lights go down
You're feeling a pain
With a pain in your heart
With a broom in his hand
As the world turns around
As the world turns around