Closing Time (Live In London)

Closing Time (Live In London) Lyrics

Song Closing Time (Live In London)
Artist Leonard Cohen
Album Live In London
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[00:20.20] Ah we're drinking and we're dancing
[00:22.74] And the band is really happening
[00:25.12] And the Johnny Walker wisdom running high
[00:29.18]
[00:30.19] And my very sweet companion
[00:32.62] She's the Angel of Compassion
[00:35.44] She's rubbing half the world against her thigh
[00:39.15]
[00:39.91] And every drinker every dancer
[00:42.52] Lifts a happy face to thank her
[00:45.47] The fiddler fiddles something so sublime
[00:48.99]
[00:50.07] All the women tear their blouses off
[00:52.93] And the men they dance on the polka-dots
[00:55.46] And it's partner found it's partner lost
[00:57.91] And it's hell to pay when the fiddler stops
[01:00.77] It's Closing Time
[01:02.47]
[01:05.22] Yeah the women tear their blouses off
[01:07.94] And the men they dance on the polka-dots
[01:10.46] And it's partner found it's partner lost
[01:12.98] And it's hell to pay when the fiddler stops
[01:15.83]
[01:17.90] It's Closing Time
[01:20.98]
[01:27.65] Ah we're lonely we're romantic
[01:30.28] And the cider's laced with acid
[01:32.96] And the Holy Spirit's crying Where's the beef
[01:36.57]
[01:37.48] And the moon is swimming naked
[01:40.02] And the summer night is fragrant
[01:42.65] With a mighty expectation of relief
[01:47.03]
[01:47.58] So we struggle and we stagger
[01:50.30] Down the snakes and up the ladder
[01:52.74] To the tower where the blessed hours chime
[01:56.84]
[01:57.83] And I swear it happened just like this
[02:00.57] A sigh a cry a hungry kiss
[02:03.34] The Gates of Love they budged an inch
[02:05.56] I can't say much has happened since
[02:08.08] But Closing Time
[02:09.95]
[02:13.15] I swear it happened just like this
[02:15.50] A sigh a cry a hungry kiss
[02:18.32] The Gates of Love they budged an inch
[02:20.57] I can't say much has happened since
[02:23.57]
[02:28.33] Closing Time
[02:38.02] I loved you for your beauty
[02:40.65] But that doesn't make a fool of me
[02:43.39] You were in it for your beauty too
[02:46.80]
[02:48.07] And I loved you for your body
[02:50.29] There's a voice that sounds like God to me
[02:53.12] Declaring declaring declaring that your body's really you
[03:03.17] And I loved you when our love was blessed
[03:05.59] And I love you now there's nothing left
[03:08.18] But sorrow and a sense of overtime
[03:11.26]
[03:12.96] And I missed you since the place got wrecked
[03:15.61] And I just don't care what happens next
[03:18.25] Looks like freedom but it feels like death
[03:20.61] It's something in between I guess
[03:23.16] It's Closing Time
[03:26.84]
[03:27.82] Yeah I missed you since the place got wrecked
[03:30.66] By the winds of change and the weeds of sex
[03:33.24] Looks like freedom but it feels like death
[03:35.64] It's something in between I guess
[03:38.53]
[03:40.48] It's Closing Time
[03:43.32]
[03:50.37] Yeah we're drinking and we're dancing
[03:52.89] But there's nothing really happening
[03:55.46] And the place is dead as Heaven on a Saturday night
[03:59.40]
[04:00.16] And my very close companion
[04:02.91] Gets me fumbling gets me laughing
[04:05.40] She's a hundred but she's wearing
[04:07.94] Something tight
[04:09.38]
[04:10.77] And I lift my glass to the Awful Truth
[04:13.20] Which you can't reveal to the Ears of Youth
[04:16.01] Except to say it isn't worth a dime
[04:19.55]
[04:20.75] And the whole damn place goes crazy twice
[04:23.17] And it's once for the devil and once for Christ
[04:25.73] But the Boss don't like these dizzy heights
[04:28.25] We're busted in the blinding lights
[04:30.75] Of Closing Time
[04:32.65]
[04:35.79] The whole damn place goes crazy twice
[04:38.20] And it's once for the devil and once for Christ
[04:40.69] But the Boss don't like these dizzy heights
[04:43.25] We're busted in the blinding lights
[04:46.18]
[04:48.57] Busted in the blinding lights
[04:50.74] Of Closing Time
[04:55.04]
[05:00.83] Oh the women tear their blouses off the men they dance on The polka-dots
[05:05.97] It's Closing Time
[05:09.47]
[05:10.49] And it's partner found it's partner lost
[05:13.35] And it's hell to pay when the fiddler stops
[05:16.03] It's Closing Time
[05:19.55]
[05:20.85] I swear it happened just like this
[05:23.26] A sigh a cry a hungry kiss
[05:25.92] It's Closing Time
[05:29.59]
[05:30.92] The Gates of Love they budged an inch
[05:33.28] I can't say much has happened since
[05:35.91] But Closing Time
[05:39.66]
[05:40.91] I loved you when our love was blessed
[05:43.42] I love you now there's nothing left
[05:45.80] But Closing Time
[05:49.75]
[05:50.89] I miss you since the place got wrecked
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