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 wipin' the bars and moppin' the floors
  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 the flame, 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 truth is all you see
  When you feel that whole inside of your soul
  And wonder what its made of
  O 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 in 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
  And 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, oh
    [ Thanks Jen for correction ]