When The Lights Go Down
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 wiping the bar, moppin' the floor
Countin' his tips, lockin' the doors
Wrestlin' the devil that tells him to pour another round
Luigi sighed. He looked around. Emptiness. Desolation. Nothingness. Wiping some sweat off his greasy forehead, he felt a pang of realization. That cap. That familiar green cap was gone. He felt empty without it. Without Mario.
He silently chided himself. He should have gotten used to it by now. The days of glory... they were all gone. Not being in the spotlight, but right there beside it. He had always taken it for granted. Living vicariously through his brother... He had thought that those days would last forever.
He had thought wrong.
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 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
She had expected someone to come for her. Respond to her cry of despair. Back at the castle... she was everything. Now... she was nothing. Nothing at all.
Where was everything when she needed it the most? Why had she taken her perfect life for granted? Why had she thought that it would never end?
Shaking her head, Peach slid into the car, wondering if she remembered the way home.
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
None of it had mattered.
All the battles he had fought, all the lives he had ruthlessly took... they had amounted to nothing.
Nothing but regret.
It filled Bowser's body, drained out his soul, and left only silence in its wake.
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 nothing but thoughts of you in my head
I think of the things that I wish I had said
When you were still around
No, he thought. No!
Her face... her lovely face, smiling up at him. His arm around her neck. Picture of happiness. Picture of his past.
Why was it so hard letting go?
He hadn't seen her in ages. He wondered how she was doing. No. Don't think about her.
Mario violently ripped the photo in half, leaving a crooked edge. Straight down the middle. Torn to shreds.
Just like his life.
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 fear and all my doubts
Yeah, 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