Closing Time

{t:Closing Time} 
{st: Leonard Cohen}
 
{c:Intro | [G]    [D]    [G]   [D]}

Ah, we're [G] drinking and we're dancing
and the band is really happening
and the [Em] Johnny Walker wisdom running high,
And my [Bm] very sweet companion,
she's the Angel of Compassion
and she's [Em] rubbing half the world against her thigh.
And every [C] drinker, every dancer
lifts a happy face to thank her
and the [G] fiddler fiddles [B7] something so sub[Em]lime

all the [D] women tear their blouses off
the men they dance on the polka dots
and it's [C] partner found and it's partner lost
and it's [Em] hell to pay when the [C] fiddler stops
it's [G] CLOSING TIME (closing time closing time closing time)

Yeah, the [C] women tear their blouses off
the men they dance on the polka dots
and it's [G] partner found and it's [B7] partner lost
and it's [Em] hell to pay when the [C] fiddler stops
... it's [G] CLOSING TIME [D]

We're [G] lonely, we're romantic
and the cider's laced with acid
and the [Em] Holy Spirit's crying, "Where's the beef?"
And the [Bm] moon is swimming naked
and the summer night is fragrant
with a [Em] mighty expectation of relief
So we [C] struggle and we stagger
down the snakes and up the ladder
to the [G] tower where the [B7] blessed hours [Em] chime

and I [D] swear it happened just like this:
a sigh, a cry, a hungry kiss
the [C] Gates of Love they budged an inch
I can't say much has happened since
but [G] CLOSING TIME (closing time closing time closing time)

I [C] swear it happned just like this:
a sigh, a cry, a hungry kiss
the [G] Gates of Love they [B7] budged an inch
I [Em] can't say much has [C] happened since
(can't say much has happned since, can't say much has happened since)
but [G] CLOSING TIME, [D] CLOSING TIME

I [Em] loved you for your beauty
but that doesn't make a fool of me
[Bm] you were in it for your beauty too
and I [Em] loved you for your body
there's a voice that sounds like God to me
[A] declaring (declaring) declaring ([A7]declaring)
[D]declaring that you're body's really you (really really really really)

I [C] loved you when our love was blessed
I love you now there's nothing left
but [G] sorrow and a [B7] sense of over[Em]time
and I [D] miss you since the place got wrecked
but I just don't care what happens next
[C] looks like freedom but it feels like death
it's something in between, I guess
it's [G] CLOSING TIME

Yeah. I [C] miss you since the place got wrecked
by the winds of change and the weeds of sex
[G] looks like freedom but it [B7] feels like death
it's [Em] something in be[C]tween, I guess
... it's [G] CLOSING TIME [D]


Yeah, we're [G] drinking and we're dancing
but there's nothing really happening
The [Em] place is dead as Heaven on a Saturday night
And my [Bm] very close companion
gets me fumbing gets me laughing
she's a [Em] hundred but she's wearing something tight
And I [C] lift my glass to the Awful Truth
which you can't reveal to the Ears of Youth
[G] except to say it [B7] isn't worth a [Em] dime

And the [D] whole damn place goes crazy twice
and it's once for the Devil and it's once for Christ
but the [C] Boss don't like these dizzy heights
we're busted in the blinding lights
of [G] CLOSING TIME

The [C] whole damn place goes crazy twice
and it's once for the Devil and it's once for Christ
but the [G] Boss don't like these [B7] dizzy heights
we're [Em] busted in the [C] blinding lights
(busted in the blinding lights)
busted in the blinding lights
of [G] CLOSING TIME, [D] CLOSING TIME

Oh, the [G] women tear their blouses off
and the men they dance on the polka dots, it's [D] CLOOOOSING TIME

And it's [G] partner found, and it's partner lost
and it's hell to pay when the fiddler stops it's [D] CLOOOOSING TIME

I [G] swear it happned just like this:
A sigh, a cry, a hungry kiss, it's [D] CLOOOOSING TIME

The [G] gates of love they budged an inch
I can't say much has happned since but [D] CLOOOOSING TIME

I [G] loved you when our love was blessed
I love you now, there's nothing left but [D] CLOOOOSING TIME

And I [G] missed you since our place gor wrecked
by the winds of change and the weeds of sex, it's [D] CLOOOOSING TIME