Lyrics Closing Time.lrc Leonard Cohen
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[ar: Leonard Cohen]
[al: The Best Of Leonard Cohen]
[ti: Closing Time]
[length: 05:58]
[00:20.68]Ah, we’re drinking and we’re dancing
[00:23.16]And the band is really happening
[00:25.79]And the Johnny Walker wisdom running high
[00:30.17]And my very sweet companion
[00:32.86]She’s the Angel of Compassion
[00:35.28]She’s rubbing half the world against her thigh
[00:39.84]And every drinker, every dancer
[00:42.82]Lifts a happy face to thank her
[00:45.22]The fiddler fiddles something so sublime
[00:48.28]All the women tear their blouses off
[00:52.87]And the men they dance on the polka-dots
[00:55.54]And it’s partner found, it’s partner lost
[00:58.06]And it’s hell to pay when the fiddler stops
[01:01.25]It’s closing time
[01:05.94]Yeah, the women tear their blouses off
[01:08.80]And the men they dance on the polka-dots
[01:10.56]And it’s partner found, it’s partner lost
[01:12.02]And it’s hell to pay when the fiddler stops
[01:15.98]It’s Closing Time
[01:19.36]
[01:28.13]Ah, we’re lonely, we’re romantic
[01:31.08]And the cider’s laced with acid
[01:33.21]And the Holy Spirit’s crying, ‘Where’s the beef?’
[01:36.24]And the moon is swimming naked
[01:40.32]And the summer night is fragrant
[01:42.51]With a mighty expectation of relief
[01:45.46]So we struggle and we stagger
[01:50.06]Down the snakes and up the ladder
[01:52.85]To the tower where the blessed hours chime
[01:57.41]And I swear it happened just like this
[02:00.37]A sigh, a cry, a hungry kiss
[02:03.02]The Gates of Love they budged an inch
[02:05.59]I can’t say much has happened since
[02:08.73]But Closing Time
[02:13.43]I swear it happened just like this
[02:15.87]A sigh, a cry, a hungry kiss
[02:17.99]The Gates of Love they budged an inch
[02:20.61]I can’t say much has happened since
[02:24.42](I can’t say much has happened since)
[02:26.03](I can’t say much has happened since)
[02:28.52]But Closing Time
[02:32.41]Closing Time
[02:37.70]I loved you for your beauty
[02:40.26]But that doesn’t make a fool of me
[02:42.66]You were in it for your beauty too
[02:48.04]And I loved you for your body
[02:50.51]There’s a voice that sounds like God to me
[02:53.57]Declaring, declaring, declaring that your body’s really you
[03:03.81]And I loved you when our love was blessed
[03:06.02]And I love you now there’s nothing left
[03:08.14]But sorrow and a sense of overtime
[03:11.94]And I missed you since the place got wrecked
[03:15.71]And I just don’t care what happens next
[03:18.15]Looks like freedom but it feels like death
[03:20.88]It’s something in between, I guess
[03:23.23]It’s Closing Time
[03:28.26]Yeah, I missed you since the place got wrecked
[03:30.95]By the winds of change and the weeds of sex
[03:36.39]Looks like freedom but it feels like death
[03:37.12]It’s something in between, I guess
[03:39.56]It’s Closing Time
[03:43.01]
[03:50.97]Yeah, we’re drinking and we’re dancing
[03:53.15]But there’s nothing really happening
[03:55.56]And the place is dead as Heaven on a Saturday night
[03:58.50]And my very close companion
[04:02.37]Gets me fumbling, gets me laughing
[04:05.63]She’s a hundred but she’s wearing something tight
[04:10.20]And I lift my glass to the Awful Truth
[04:13.97]Which you can’t reveal to the Ears of Youth
[04:15.95]Except to say it isn’t worth a dime
[04:18.82]And the whole damn place goes crazy twice
[04:23.20]And it’s once for the devil and once for Christ
[04:26.25]But the Boss don’t like these dizzy heights
[04:29.11]We’re busted in the blinding lights
[04:31.07]Of Closing Time
[04:36.71]The whole damn place goes crazy twice
[04:40.86]And it’s once for the devil and it’s once for Christ
[04:41.68]But the Boss don’t like these dizzy heights
[04:43.69]We’re busted in the blinding lights
[04:49.27]Busted in the blinding lights
[04:50.80]Of Closing Time
[04:55.64]Closing time
[05:00.22]Oh, the women tear their blouses off
[05:03.31]And the men they dance on the polka-dots
[05:06.18]It’s Closing Time
[05:10.81]And it’s partner found, it’s partner lost
[05:16.35]And it’s hell to pay when the fiddler stops
[05:16.95]It’s Closing Time
[05:21.25]I swear it happened just like this
[05:23.35]A sigh, a cry, a hungry kiss
[05:25.89]It’s Closing Time
[05:29.32]The Gates of Love they budged an inch
[05:34.22]I can’t say much has happened since
[05:36.13]But Closing Time
[05:42.38]I loved you when our love was blessed
[05:43.73]I love you now there’s nothing left
[05:46.10]But Closing Time
[05:51.82]I miss you since the place got wrecked
[05:53.73]By the winds of change and the weeds of sex
[05:55.98]Year of Release: 1992