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.
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Other Songs Lyrics For 'Leonard Cohen'
A Bunch Of Lonesome Heroes
A Bunch Of Lonesome Heros
A Partisan
A Singer Must Die
A Thousand Kisses Deep
Ain't No Cure For Love
Alexandra Leaving
Always
Anthem
Avalanche
Ballad Of The Absent Mare
Be For Real
Bird On The Wire
Bird On The Wire
Boogie Street
By The Rivers Dark
Came So Far For Beauty
Chelsea Hotel N? 2
Chelsea Hotel No. 2
Closing Time
Coming Back To You
Dance Me To The End Of Love
Death of a Ladies' Man
Democracy
Diamonds In The Mine
Don't Go Home With Your Hard-on
Dress Rehearsal Rag
Everybody Knows
Famous Blue Raincoat
Field Commander Cohen
Fingerprints
First We Take Manhattan
Hallelujah
Heart With No Companion
Here It Is
Hey, That's No Way To Say Goodbye
Humbled In Love
Hunter's Lullaby
I Came So Far For Beauty
I Can't Forget
I Left A Woman Waiting
I Tried To Leave You
I'm Your Man
If It Be Your Will
Improvisation
In My Secret Life
Iodine
Is This What You Wanted
Jazz Police
Joan Of Arc
Lady Midnight
Last Year's Man
Leaving Green Sleeves
Light As The Breeze
Love Calls You By Your Name
Love Itself
Lover Lover Lover
Master Song
Master Song
Memories
Minute Prologue
Nancy
Never Any Good
Night Comes On
One Of Us Cannot Be Wrong
Our Lady Of Solitude
Paper Thin Hotel
Paper Thin Motel
Passing Through
Please Don't Pass Me By (a Disgrace)
Queen Victoria
Seems So Long Ago, Nancy
Sing Another Song, Boys
Sisters of Mercy
So Long, Marianne
Stories Of The Street
Story Of Isaac
Story Of Isaac
Suzanne
Tacoma Trailer
Take This Longing
Take This Waltz
Teachers
That Don't Make It Junk
The Butcher
The Captain
The Future
The Great Event
The Guests
The Gypsy's Wife
The Land Of Plenty
The Law
The Lost Canadian
The Old Revolution
The Smokey Life
The Stranger Song
The Traitor
The Window
There Is A War
Tonight Will Be Fine
Tonight Will Be Fine
Tower Of Song
True Love Leaves No Traces
Waiting for the Miracle
Who By Fire
Why Don't You Try
Winter Lady
You Have Loved Enough
You Know Who I Am
You Know Who I Am
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