Leonard Cohen - Closing Time Lyrics
So were drinking and were dancingAnd the band is really happeningAnd the johnny walker wisdom running highAnd my very sweet companionShes the angel of compassionAnd shes rubbing half the world against her thighEvery drinker every dancerLifts a happy face to thank herAnd the fiddler fiddles something so sublimeAll the women tear their blouses offThe men they dance on the polka-dotsAnd its partner found and partner lostAnd its hell to pay when the fiddler stopsIts closing timeWere lonely, were romanticAnd the ciders laced with acidAnd the holy spirits crying, wheres the beef?And the moon is swimming *****And the summer night is fragrantWith a mighty expectation of reliefSo we struggle and we staggerDown the snakes and up the ladderTo the tower where the blessed hours chimeAnd I swear it happened just like thisA sigh, a cry, a hungry kissThe gates of love they budged an inchI cant say much has happened sinceBut closing timeI loved you for your beautyBut that doesnt make a fool of meYou were in it for your beauty tooI loved you for your bodyTheres a voice that sounds like God to meDeclaring that your bodys really youI loved you when our love was blessedAnd I love you now theres nothing leftBut sorrow and a sense of overtimeAnd I miss you since the place got wreckedBy the winds of change and the weeds of sexLooks like freedom but it feels like deathIt something in betwen, I guessIts closing timeWere drinking and were dancingBut theres nothing really happeningThe place is dead as heaven on a saturday nightAnd my very close companionGets me fumbling gets me laughingShes a hundred but shes wearingSomething tightI lift my glass to the awful truthWhich you cant reveal to the ears of youthExcept to say it isnt worth a dimeAnd the whole dam place goes crazy twiceAnd its once for the dvil and its once for christBut the boss dont like these dizzy heightsWere busted in the blinding lightsOf closing time
