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Introduction:
SOL /RE /SOL RE
SOL
Ah, we're drinking and we're dancing
and the band is really happening
MIm
and the Johnny Walker wisdom running high,
SIm
And my very sweet companion,
she's the Angel of Compassion
MIm
and she's rubbing half the world against her thigh.
DO
And every drinker, every dancer
lifts a happy face to thank her
SOL SI7 MIm
and the fiddler fiddles something so sublime
RE
all the women tear their blouses off
the men they dance on the polka dots
DO
and it's partner found and it's partner lost
and it's hell to pay when the fiddler stops
SOL
it's CLOSING TIME
DO
Yeah, the women tear their blouses off
the men they dance on the polka dots
SOL SI7
and it's partner found and it's partner lost
MIm DO
and it's hell to pay when the fiddler stops
SOL RE
it's CLOSING TIME
SOL
We're lonely, we're romantic
and the cider's laced with acid
MIm
and the Holy Spirit's crying, "Where's the beef?"
SIm
And the moon is swimming naked
and the summer night is fragrant
MIm
with a mighty expectation of relief
DO
So we struggle and we stagger
down the snakes and up the ladder
SOL SI7 MIm
to the tower where the blessed hours chime
RE
and I swear it happened just like this:
a sigh, a cry, a hungry kiss
DO
the Gates of Love they budged an inch
I can't say much has happened since
SOL
but CLOSING TIME
DO
I swear it happned just like this:
a sigh, a cry, a hungry kiss
SOL SI7
the Gates of Love they budged an inch
MIm DO
I can't say much has happened since
(can't say much has happned since, can't say much has happened since)
SOL RE
but CLOSING TIME, CLOSING TIME
MIm
I loved you for your beauty
but that doesn't make a fool of me
SIm
you were in it for your beauty too
MIm
and I loved you for your body
there's a voice that sounds like God to me
LA LA7
declaring (declaring) declaring (declaring)
RE
declaring that you're body's really you (really really really really)
DO
I loved you when our love was blessed
I love you now there's nothing left
SOL SI7 MIm
but sorrow and a sense of overtime
RE
and I miss you since the place got wrecked
but I just don't care what happens next
DO
looks like freedom but it feels like death
it's something in between, I guess
SOL
it's CLOSING TIME
DO
Yeah. I miss you since the place got wrecked
by the winds of change and the weeds of sex
SOL SI7
looks like freedom but it feels like death
MIm DO
it's something in between, I guess
SOL RE
it's CLOSING TIME
SOL
Yeah, we're drinking and we're dancing
but there's nothing really happening
MIm
The place is dead as Heaven on a Saturday night
SIm
And my very close companion
gets me fumbing gets me laughing
MIm
she's a hundred but she's wearing something tight
DO
And I lift my glass to the Awful Truth
which you can't reveal to the Ears of Youth
SOL SI7 MIm
except to say it isn't worth a dime
RE
And the whole damn place goes crazy twice
and it's once for the Devil and it's once for Christ
DO
but the Boss don't like these dizzy heights
we're busted in the blinding lights
SOL
of CLOSING TIME
DO
The whole damn place goes crazy twice
and it's once for the Devil and it's once for Christ
SOL SI7
but the Boss don't like these dizzy heights
MIm DO
we're busted in the blinding lights
(busted in the blinding lights)
busted in the blinding lights
SOL RE
of CLOSING TIME, CLOSING TIME
SOL
Oh, the women tear their blouses off
RE
and the men they dance on the polka dots, it's CLOSING TIME
SOL
And it's partner found, and it's partner lost
and it's hell to pay when the fiddler stops
RE
it's CLOSING TIME
SOL
I swear it happned just like this:
RE
A sigh, a cry, a hungry kiss, it's CLOSING TIME
SOL
The gates of love they budged an inch
RE
I can't say much has happned since but CLOSING TIME
SOL
I loved you when our love was blessed
RE
I love you now, there's nothing left but CLOSING TIME
SOL
And I missed you since our place gor wrecked
RE
by the winds of change and the weeds of sex, it's CLOSING TIME
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