Closing Time

<br>Ah we`re drinking and we`re dancing<br>and the band is really happening<br>and the Johnny Walker wisdom running high<br>And my very sweet companion<br>she`s the Angel of Compassion<br>she`s rubbing half the world against her thigh<br>And every drinker every dancer<br>lifts a happy face to thank her<br>the fiddler fiddles something so sublime<br>all the women tear their blouses off<br>and the men they dance on the polka-dots<br>and it`s partner found, it`s partner lost<br>and it`s hell to pay when the fiddler stops:<br>it`s CLOSING TIME<br><br>Yeah the women tear their blouses off<br>and the men they dance on the polka-dots<br>and it`s partner found, it`s partner lost<br>and it`s hell to pay when the fiddler stops:<br>it`s CLOSING TIME<br><br>Ah we`re lonely, we`re romantic<br>and the cider`s laced with acid<br>and the Holy Spirit`s crying, "Where`s the beef?"<br>And the moon is swimming naked<br>and the summer night is fragrant<br>with a mighty expectation of relief<br>So we struggle and we stagger<br>down the snakes and up the ladder<br>to the tower where the blessed hours chime<br>and I swear it happened just like this:<br>a sigh, a cry, a hungry kiss<br>the Gates of Love they budged an inch<br>I can`t say much has happened since<br>but CLOSING TIME<br><br>I swear it happened just like this:<br>a sigh, a cry, a hungry kiss<br>the Gates of Love they budged an inch<br>I can`t say much has happened since<br>CLOSING TIME<br><br>I loved you for your beauty<br>but that doesn`t make a fool of me:<br>you were in it for your beauty too<br>and I loved you for your body<br>there`s a voice that sounds like God to me<br>declaring, declaring, declaring that your body`s really you<br>And I loved you when our love was blessed<br>and I love you now there`s nothing left<br>but sorrow and a sense of overtime<br>and I missed you since the place got wrecked<br>And I just don`t care what happens next<br>looks like freedom but it feels like death<br>it`s something in between, I guess<br>it`s CLOSING TIME<br><br>Yeah I missed you since the place got wrecked<br>By the winds of change and the weeds of sex<br>looks like freedom but it feels like death<br>it`s something in between, I guess<br>it`s CLOSING TIME<br><br>Yeah we`re drinking and we`re dancing<br>but there`s nothing really happening<br>and the place is dead as Heaven on a Saturday night<br>And my very close companion<br>gets me fumbling gets me laughing<br>she`s a hundred but she`s wearing<br>something tight<br>and I lift my glass to the Awful Truth<br>which you can`t reveal to the Ears of Youth<br>except to say it isn`t worth a dime<br>And the whole damn place goes crazy twice<br>and it`s once for the devil and once for Christ<br>but the Boss don`t like these dizzy heights<br>we`re busted in the blinding lights,<br>busted in the blinding lights<br>of CLOSING TIME<br><br>The whole damn place goes crazy twice<br>and it`s once for the devil and once for Christ<br>but the Boss don`t like these dizzy heights<br>we`re busted in the blinding lights,<br>busted in the blinding lights<br>of CLOSING TIME<br><br>Oh the women tear their blouses off<br>and the men they dance on the polka-dots<br>It`s CLOSING TIME<br>And it`s partner found, it`s partner lost<br>and it`s hell to pay when the fiddler stops<br>It`s CLOSING TIME<br>I swear it happened just like this:<br>a sigh, a cry, a hungry kiss<br>It`s CLOSING TIME<br>The Gates of Love they budged an inch<br>I can`t say much has happened since<br>But CLOSING TIME<br>I loved you when our love was blessed<br>I love you now there`s nothing left<br>But CLOSING TIME<br>I miss you since the place got wrecked<br>By the winds of change and the weeds of sex.