Need to cut into a mask to reveal layer

I need to cut into a mask to reveal a layer. I have a alpha image with thousands of lights scattered around the image. I'm laying the lights layer over an image of a city to create more lights in various buildings. All I need to do is create some form of mask that when I cut into it reveals the lights below which is over the city. It's a basic question but I'm stumped. Thanks peeps.

Just target the upper layer's layer mask and set your paint brush to a good size black paint and paint the area you want the light to show through from the lower layer.  Black will make the current top layer's opacity transparent in the areas you paint over.

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