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Still Waters » Dive Deep » When the Lights Go Down
The first two verses to this song are situational, so the exact specifics do not apply. The overall mood and theme to the song does fit though, as well as everything from the first chorus past.
When the Lights Go Down
by Faith Hill
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 doors.
Wrestling the devil that tells him to pour
Another round.
I see Filia as the type to stay busy, industrious. When you're busy, during the day, you have plenty of things to focus on, people to see, places to go, and in the meantime, there's no time for your secret fears to surface. But after everything winds down and there's not so much to keep you distracted and busy, doubts, fears, and loneliness can lurk just around the bend.
When the lights go down,
She'll be calling her friends from a 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,
As another star falls from the Hollywood Hills
Without a sound.
This is a bit harsh to apply, as I don't think the other Slayers are quite this callous. But after the battle's over, everyone starts going back to their own lives. They were there for the crisis, and now it's over, and she's on her own.
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.
As I mentioned with the first verse, when there's nothing left to be, after everything's over and quiet, that's the prime time for the darkest hour.
When the lights go down
At the end of the day, with 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 the things that I wish I had said
When you were still around.
At the end of the day, we're all usually quite exhausted. Maybe just physically, but sometimes emotionally as well. Our defenses are down, and the thoughts and questions can run rampant. Who could Filia be addressing here? Valgaav, perhaps? Does she think of other arguments she could have used, other things she could have said, other things she could have tried to sway him from the path he took ex post facto? Or is she thinking of Saichuro and the other Goldens? All the betrayal surely yields questions. How much of her life was a lie? How much of their lives were lies? Did they mean this or that? Things in her past? So many questions she surely must have now that she's had time to think! So many feelings, things she wishes she could say, but they're all gone now.
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 doubt, yeah, when the light's go down, oh, whoa.
"Who am I? What's real and what's not? Am I doing the right thing? Have I done the right thing? Can I be a good mother to Val? Am I raising him right? Would Valgaav have approved? What do I do? How are we going to get through the next winter? How are we going to pay for this and that, and make ends meet? There's so many things I need to do..."
When the lights go down and there's nothing left to be,
When the lights go down, yeah 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.
Oh, when the lights go down.
Do you ever wonder what might be going through her head at night when she's trying to sleep? How scared she might feel? I wonder what sort of truth she sees. What is she made of? We'll all find out when the lights go down.
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