Closing Time

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G    /D    /G   D

          G
Ah, we're drinking and we're dancing
and the band is really happening
        Em
and the Johnny Walker wisdom running
 high,
       Bm
And my very sweet companion,

she's the Angel of Compassion
          Em
and she's rubbing half the world 
against her thigh.
          C
And every drinker, every dancer
lifts a happy face to thank her
        G               B7        
and the fiddler fiddles something 
      Em
so sublime
        D
all the women tear their blouses off

the men they dance on the polka dots
         C
and it's partner found and it's 
partner lost

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

      G
We're lonely, we're romantic
and the cider's laced with acid
        Em
and the Holy Spirit's crying, 
"Where's the beef?"
        Bm
And the moon is swimming naked
and the summer night is fragrant
       Em
with a mighty expectation of relief
      C
So we struggle and we stagger
down the snakes and up the ladder
       G               B7         
to the tower where the blessed 
   Em
hours chime
      D
and I swear it happened just like 
this:
a sigh, a cry, a hungry kiss
    C
the Gates of Love they budged an 
inch

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I can't say much has happened since
    G
but CLOSING TIME

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

  (can't say much has happned since,
 can't say much has happened since)

    G             D
but CLOSING TIME, CLOSING TIME

  Em
I loved you for your beauty
but that doesn't make a fool of me
Bm
you were in it for your beauty too
      Em
and I 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)
  C
I loved you when our love was 
blessed
I love you now there's nothing left
    G            B7           Em
but sorrow and a sense of overtime
      D
and I 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
     G
it's CLOSING TIME

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

            G
Yeah, we're drinking and we're 
dancing
but there's nothing really happening
    Em
The place is dead as Heaven on a 
Saturday night
       Bm
And my very close companion
gets me fumbing gets me laughing
        Em
she's a hundred but she's wearing 
something tight
      C
And I lift my glass to the Awful 
Truth
which you can't reveal to the Ears 
of Youth
  G              B7            Em
except to say it isn't worth a dime
        D
And the whole damn place goes crazy 
twice
and it's once for the Devil and it's
 once for Christ
        C
but the Boss don't like these dizzy 
heights
we're busted in the blinding lights

   G
of CLOSING TIME

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

        G
Oh, the women tear their blouses off
and the men they dance on the polka 
          D
dots, it's CLOSING TIME
         G
And it's partner found, and it's 
partner lost
and it's hell to pay when the 
fiddler stops
     D
it's CLOSING TIME
  G
I swear it happned just like this:
A sigh, a cry, a hungry kiss, it's 
D
CLOSING TIME
    G
The gates of love they budged an 
inch
I can't say much has happned since 
    D
but CLOSING TIME
  G
I loved you when our love was 
blessed
I love you now, there's nothing left
     D
 but CLOSING TIME
      G
And I missed you since our place gor
 wrecked
by the winds of change and the weeds
              D
 of sex, it's CLOSING TIME