Leonard Cohen Lyrics

Album: More Best Of

Closing Time Lyrics

Ah we're drinking and we're dancing 

 and the band is really happening 

 and the Johnny Walker wisdom running high 

 And my very sweet companion 

 she's the Angel of Compassion 

 she's rubbing half the world against her thigh 

 And every drinker every dancer 

 lifts a happy face to thank her 

 the fiddler fiddles something so sublime 

 all the women tear their blouses off 

 and the men they dance on the polka-dots 

 and it's partner found, it's partner lost 

 and it's hell to pay when the fiddler stops: 

 it's CLOSING TIME 

 Yeah the women tear their blouses off 

 and the men they dance on the polka-dots 

 and it's partner found, it's partner lost 

 and it's hell to pay when the fiddler stops: 

 it's CLOSING TIME 

 

 Ah we're lonely, we're romantic 

 and the cider's laced with acid 

 and the Holy Spirit's crying, "Where's the beef?" 

 And the moon is swimming naked 

 and the summer night is fragrant 

 with a mighty expectation of relief 

 So we struggle and we stagger 

 down the snakes and up the ladder 

 to the tower where the blessed hours chime 

 and I swear it happened just like this: 

 a sigh, a cry, a hungry kiss 

 the Gates of Love they budged an inch 

 I can't say much has happened since 

 but CLOSING TIME 

 

 I swear it happened just like this: 

 a sigh, a cry, a hungry kiss 

 the Gates of Love they budged an inch 

 I can't say much has happened since 

 CLOSING TIME 

 

 I loved you for your beauty 

 but that doesn't make a fool of me: 

 you were in it for your beauty too 

 and I loved you for your body 

 there's a voice that sounds like God to me 

 declaring, declaring, declaring that your body's really you 

 And I loved you when our love was blessed 

 and I love you now there's nothing left 

 but sorrow and a sense of overtime 

 and I missed you since the place got wrecked 

 And I just don't care what happens next 

 looks like freedom but it feels like death 

 it's something in between, I guess 

 it's CLOSING TIME 

 

 Yeah I missed you since the place got wrecked 

 By the winds of change and the weeds of sex 

 looks like freedom but it feels like death 

 it's something in between, I guess 

 it's CLOSING TIME 

 

 Yeah we're drinking and we're dancing 

 but there's nothing really happening 

 and the place is dead as Heaven on a Saturday night 

 And my very close companion 

 gets me fumbling gets me laughing 

 she's a hundred but she's wearing 

 something tight 

 and I lift my glass to the Awful Truth 

 which you can't reveal to the Ears of Youth 

 except to say it isn't worth a dime 

 And the whole damn place goes crazy twice 

 and it's once for the devil and once for Christ 

 but the Boss don't like these dizzy heights 

 we're busted in the blinding lights, 

 busted in the blinding lights 

 of CLOSING TIME 

 

 The whole damn place goes crazy twice 

 and it's once for the devil and once for Christ 

 but the Boss don't like these dizzy heights 

 we're busted in the blinding lights, 

 busted in the blinding lights 

 of CLOSING TIME 

 

 Oh the women tear their blouses off 

 and the men they dance on the polka-dots 

 It's CLOSING TIME 

 And it's partner found, it's partner lost 

 and it's hell to pay when the fiddler stops 

 It's CLOSING TIME 

 I swear it happened just like this: 

 a sigh, a cry, a hungry kiss 

 It's CLOSING TIME 

 The Gates of Love they budged an inch 

 I can't say much has happened since 

 But CLOSING TIME 

 I loved you when our love was blessed 

 I love you now there's nothing left 

 But CLOSING TIME 

 I miss you since the place got wrecked 

 By the winds of change and the weeds of sex.