#------------------------PLEASE NOTE---------------------------------# #This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research. #---------------------------------------------------------------------# TABBY CAT MUSIC ARCHIVES ******************************************************************************** Transcribed by: asf0@comcast.net Alice Franceschini Date: January 6, 2003 Album: Cry Written by: When the lights go down He'll be 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 door Wrestling with the devil that tells him to pour Another round When the lights go down She'll be calling her friends from the Mercedes Benz But its too late now They were there for the fame(E, the falsh and the thrill The drop of the names, the parties the pills 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 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 in this big empty bed Nothing but thoughts of you in my head I think of 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 When the lights go down 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 Ohhh when the lights go down