Tom: A

Intro:  A E A E   (3x)  -  A  
 
                   E   
When the lights go down
        A          E            A           E
Can we filling the pan in the bloom in his hand
         B      
In some dive across town
        A          E       A            E  
Can we wipin' the bar and mopping the floor
 A         E          A           E
Countless tales and knocking the doors
  A                 E          A           F#m     B  
Wrestling with the devil that tells him to pour, another round


          A
When the lights go down
           A            E               A        E
Should we calling her friends from the Mercedes Benz
B
But it's too late now
            A            E           A              E
They were there for the fame , the flash and the thrill
      A          E          A           E
The Drop of the names, the parties the pills
     A      E                   F#m  A        B   
As another star falls from the Hollywood Hills without a sound
 

          A           C#m
When the lights go down
             B
And there's nothing left to be
          A          C#m
When the lights go down
         B
And the truth is all you see
          A                C#m
When you feel that hole inside your soul
    B                  G#m
And wonder what you're made of
         C#m       B   A 
Well, we all find out
          B          A E A E (2x) - A
When the lights go down
 

          A
When the lights go down
       A           E             A            E
At the end of the day with this game that I play
B
Has gone another round
      A          E            A         E
As I lay there alone in this big empty bed
 A            E          A         E
Nothing but thoughts of you in my head
    A            E       A          E 
I think of the things I wish I had said
B                
When you were still around
 

          A           C#m
When the lights go down
            B
And there's nothing left to be
          A          C#m
When the lights go down
          B
And the truth is all you see
          A                C#m
When you feel that hole inside your soul
     B                  G#m
And wonder what you're made of
         C#m       B   A 
Well, we all find out
          B          A E A E (2x) - A
When the lights go down
 

          A           C#m
When the lights go down
             B
And there's nothing left to be
          A          C#m
When the lights go down
          B
And the truth is all you see
       A                C#m      
And I wonder if all my life's about
     B                 G#m         C#m-B  A
The sum of all my fears and all my doubts
     B           A           C#m  B                
Yeaah  when the lights go down
 
Solo über:   
A  C#m  B 
 
          A           C#m
When the lights go down
             B
And there's nothing left to be
          A          C#m
When the lights go down
          B
And the truth is all you see
          A                C#m
When you feel that hole inside your soul
     B                  G#m
And wonder what you're made of
         C#m       B   A 
Well, we all find out
          B   A E A E (2x) - A
When the lights go down
                A E A E    A  -  E~~~
Uuuhh when the lights go down