Lyrics Closing Time (Live).lrc Leonard Cohen
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[ar: Leonard Cohen]
[al: Live In London]
[ti: Closing Time (Live)]
[length: 06:15]
[00:19.71]Ah we’re drinking and we’re dancing
[00:22.59]And the band is really happening
[00:24.35]And the Johnny Walker wisdom running high
[00:28.92]And my very sweet companion
[00:30.72]She’s the Angel of Compassion
[00:33.54]She’s rubbing half the world against her thigh
[00:37.79]And every drinker every dancer
[00:40.34]Lifts a happy face to thank her
[00:42.68]The fiddler fiddles something so sublime
[00:47.14]All the women tear their blouses off
[00:48.94]And the men they dance on the polka-dots
[00:51.59]And it’s partner found, it’s partner lost
[00:53.39]And it’s hell to pay when the fiddler stops
[00:56.25]It’s closing time
[01:00.74]Yeah the women tear their blouses off
[01:02.51]And the men they dance on the polka-dots
[01:05.23]And it’s partner found, it’s partner lost
[01:07.06]And it’s hell to pay when the fiddler stops
[01:11.65]It’s closing time
[01:16.85]Closing time
[01:20.20]Ah we’re lonely, we’re romantic
[01:22.86]And the cider’s laced with acid
[01:24.90]And the Holy Spirit’s crying, “Where’s the beef?”
[01:29.29]And the moon is swimming naked
[01:31.86]And the summer night is fragrant
[01:33.88]With a mighty expectation of relief
[01:38.47]So we struggle and we stagger
[01:40.22]Down the snakes and up the ladder
[01:42.72]To the tower where the blessed hours chime
[01:47.67]And I swear it happened just like this
[01:49.86]A sigh, a cry, a hungry kiss
[01:52.14]The Gates of Love they budged an inch
[01:53.96]I can’t say much has happened since
[01:56.31]But closing time
[02:01.16]I swear it happened just like this
[02:02.98]A sigh, a cry, a hungry kiss
[02:05.76]The Gates of Love they budged an inch
[02:07.55]I can’t say much has happened since
[02:12.33]Can’t say much has happened since
[02:14.34]But closing time
[02:18.80]Closing time
[02:23.38]I loved you for your beauty
[02:25.34]But that doesn’t make a fool of me
[02:28.09]You were in it for your beauty too
[02:32.03]And I loved you for your body
[02:34.39]There’s a voice that sounds like God to me
[02:37.01]Declaring, declaring, declaring that your body’s really you
[02:45.36]And I loved you when our love was blessed
[02:47.95]And I love you now there’s nothing left
[02:49.76]But sorrow and a sense of overtime
[02:54.32]And I missed you since the place got wrecked
[02:57.05]And I just don’t care what happens next
[02:58.83]Looks like freedom but it feels like death
[03:01.52]It’s something in between, I guess
[03:03.34]It’s closing time
[03:08.20]Yeah I missed you since the place got wrecked
[03:09.60]By the winds of change and the weeds of sex
[03:12.31]Looks like freedom but it feels like death
[03:14.22]It’s something in between, I guess
[03:18.89]
[03:27.23]Yeah we’re drinking and we’re dancing
[03:29.49]But there’s nothing really happening
[03:31.78]And the place is dead as Heaven on a Saturday night
[03:35.97]And my very close companion
[03:38.15]Gets me fumbling gets me laughing
[03:40.40]She’s a hundred but she’s wearing
[03:42.63]Something tight
[03:44.94]And I lift my glass to the Awful Truth
[03:47.46]Which you can’t reveal to the Ears of Youth
[03:49.49]Except to say it isn’t worth a dime
[03:54.08]And the whole damn place goes crazy twice
[03:56.20]And it’s once for the devil and once for Christ
[03:58.29]But the Boss don’t like these dizzy heights
[04:00.36]We’re busted in the blinding lights,
[04:02.54]Of closing time
[04:07.59]The whole damn place goes crazy twice
[04:09.39]And it’s once for the devil and once for Christ
[04:11.13]But the Boss don’t like these dizzy heights
[04:13.90]We’re busted in the blinding lights,
[04:18.06]Busted in the blinding lights
[04:20.19]Of closing time
[04:24.87]Closing time
[04:27.19]Alright, here we go
[04:29.34]The women tear their blouses off the men they dance on the polka-dots
[04:33.40]It’s closing time
[04:37.71]And it’s partner found, it’s partner lost
[04:40.40]And it’s hell to pay when the fiddler stops
[04:42.22]It’s closing time
[04:46.72]I swear it happened just like this
[04:48.50]A sigh, a cry, a hungry kiss
[04:51.53]It’s closing time
[04:55.55]And the Gates of Love they budged an inch
[04:57.80]I can’t say much has happened since
[04:59.63]But closing time
[05:04.22]And I loved you when our love was blessed
[05:06.95]And I love you now there’s nothing left
[05:08.72]But closing time
[05:12.76]And I miss you since the place got wrecked
[05:15.00]By the winds of change and the weeds of sex
[05:17.50]It’s closing time
[05:23.25]Year of Release: 2009