[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