ntroduction: 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