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G5 /D5 /G5 D5
G5
Ah, we're drinking and we're dancing
and the band is really happening
E5
and the Johnny Walker wisdom running high,
B5
And my very sweet companion,
she's the Angel of Compassion
E5
and she's rubbing half the world against her thigh.
C5
And every drinker, every dancer
lifts a happy face to thank her
G5 B5 E5
and the fiddler fiddles something so sublime
D5
all the women tear their blouses off
the men they dance on the polka dots
C5
and it's partner found and it's partner lost
and it's hell to pay when the fiddler stops
G5
it's CLOSING TIME
C5
Yeah, the women tear their blouses off
the men they dance on the polka dots
G5 B5
and it's partner found and it's partner lost
E5 C5
and it's hell to pay when the fiddler stops
G5 D5
it's CLOSING TIME
G5
We're lonely, we're romantic
and the cider's laced with acid
E5
and the Holy Spirit's crying, "Where's the beef?"
B5
And the moon is swimming naked
and the summer night is fragrant
E5
with a mighty expectation of relief
C5
So we struggle and we stagger
down the snakes and up the ladder
G5 B5 E5
to the tower where the blessed hours chime
D5
and I swear it happened just like this:
a sigh, a cry, a hungry kiss
C5
the Gates of Love they budged an inch
I can't say much has happened since
G5
but CLOSING TIME
C5
I swear it happned just like this:
a sigh, a cry, a hungry kiss
G5 B5
the Gates of Love they budged an inch
E5 C5
I can't say much has happened since
(can't say much has happned since, can't say much has happened since)
G5 D5
but CLOSING TIME, CLOSING TIME
E5
I loved you for your beauty
but that doesn't make a fool of me
B5
you were in it for your beauty too
E5
and I loved you for your body
there's a voice that sounds like God to me
A5 A5
declaring (declaring) declaring (declaring)
D5
declaring that you're body's really you (really really really really)
C5
I loved you when our love was blessed
I love you now there's nothing left
G5 B5 E5
but sorrow and a sense of overtime
D5
and I miss you since the place got wrecked
but I just don't care what happens next
C5
looks like freedom but it feels like death
it's something in between, I guess
G5
it's CLOSING TIME
C5
Yeah. I miss you since the place got wrecked
by the winds of change and the weeds of sex
G5 B5
looks like freedom but it feels like death
E5 C5
it's something in between, I guess
G5 D5
it's CLOSING TIME
G5
Yeah, we're drinking and we're dancing
but there's nothing really happening
E5
The place is dead as Heaven on a Saturday night
B5
And my very close companion
gets me fumbing gets me laughing
E5
she's a hundred but she's wearing something tight
C5
And I lift my glass to the Awful Truth
which you can't reveal to the Ears of Youth
G5 B5 E5
except to say it isn't worth a dime
D5
And the whole damn place goes crazy twice
and it's once for the Devil and it's once for Christ
C5
but the Boss don't like these dizzy heights
we're busted in the blinding lights
G5
of CLOSING TIME
C5
The whole damn place goes crazy twice
and it's once for the Devil and it's once for Christ
G5 B5
but the Boss don't like these dizzy heights
E5 C5
we're busted in the blinding lights
(busted in the blinding lights)
busted in the blinding lights
G5 D5
of CLOSING TIME, CLOSING TIME
G5
Oh, the women tear their blouses off
D5
and the men they dance on the polka dots, it's CLOSING TIME
G5
And it's partner found, and it's partner lost
and it's hell to pay when the fiddler stops
D5
it's CLOSING TIME
G5
I swear it happned just like this:
D5
A sigh, a cry, a hungry kiss, it's CLOSING TIME
G5
The gates of love they budged an inch
D5
I can't say much has happned since but CLOSING TIME
G5
I loved you when our love was blessed
D5
I love you now, there's nothing left but CLOSING TIME
G5
And I missed you since our place gor wrecked
D5
by the winds of change and the weeds of sex, it's CLOSING TIME
