Closing Time

[ti:closing time] [ar:leonard cohen ] [al:] [offset:500] [al:The Future] [0:0]欢迎访问 我爱音乐 [00:20]Ah we're drinking and we're dancing [00:23]and the band is really happening [00:25]and the Johnny Walker wisdom running high [00:30]And my very sweet companion [00:33]she's the Angel of Compassion [00:35]she's rubbing half the world against her thigh [00:39]And every drinker every dancer [00:43]lifts a happy face to thank her [00:45]the fiddler fiddles something so sublime [00:50]all the women tear their blouses off [00:53]and the men they dance on the polka-dots [00:56]and it's partner found, it's partner lost [00:58]and it's hell to pay when the fiddler stops: [01:00]it's CLOSING TIME [01:02] [01:05]Yeah the women tear their blouses off [01:08]and the men they dance on the polka-dots [01:10]and it's partner found, it's partner lost [01:13]and it's hell to pay when the fiddler stops: [01:18]it's CLOSING TIME [01:20] [01:27]Ah we're lonely, we're romantic [01:30]and the cider's laced with acid [01:33]and the Holy Spirit's crying, "Where's the beef?" [01:38]And the moon is swimming naked [01:40]and the summer night is fragrant [01:42]with a mighty expectation of relief [01:48]So we struggle and we stagger [01:50]down the snakes and up the ladder [01:53]to the tower where the blessed hours chime [01:58]and I swear it happened just like this: [02:01]a sigh, a cry, a hungry kiss [02:03]the Gates of Love they budged an inch [02:05]I can't say much has happened since [02:08]but CLOSING TIME [02:10] [02:13]I swear it happened just like this: [02:15]a sigh, a cry, a hungry kiss [02:18]the Gates of Love they budged an inch [02:20]I can't say much has happened since [02:27]CLOSING TIME [02:30] [02:38]I loved you for your beauty [02:40]but that doesn't make a fool of me: [02:43]you were in it for your beauty too [02:47]and I loved you for your body [02:50]there's a voice that sounds like God to me [02:53]declaring, declaring, declaring that your body's really you [03:03]And I loved you when our love was blessed [03:05]and I love you now there's nothing left [03:08]but sorrow and a sense of overtime [03:12]and I missed you since the place got wrecked [03:16]And I just don't care what happens next [03:18]looks like freedom but it feels like death [03:20]it's something in between, I guess [03:23]it's CLOSING TIME [03:25] [03:28]Yeah I missed you since the place got wrecked [03:31]By the winds of change and the weeds of sex [03:33]looks like freedom but it feels like death [03:35]it's something in between, I guess [03:40]it's CLOSING TIME [03:44] [03:50]Yeah we're drinking and we're dancing [03:53]but there's nothing really happening [03:55]and the place is dead as Heaven on a Saturday night [03:59]And my very close companion [04:03]gets me fumbling gets me laughing [04:06]she's a hundred but she's wearing [04:07]something tight [04:11]and I lift my glass to the Awful Truth [04:13]which you can't reveal to the Ears of Youth [04:16]except to say it isn't worth a dime [04:20]And the whole damn place goes crazy twice [04:23]and it's once for the devil and once for Christ [04:25]but the Boss don't like these dizzy heights [04:27]we're busted in the blinding lights, [04:28]busted in the blinding lights [04:31]of CLOSING TIME [04:33] [04:35]The whole damn place goes crazy twice [04:38]and it's once for the devil and once for Christ [04:41]but the Boss don't like these dizzy heights [04:43]we're busted in the blinding lights, [04:48]busted in the blinding lights [04:50]of CLOSING TIME [04:52] [05:01]Oh the women tear their blouses off [05:04]and the men they dance on the polka-dots [05:06] It's CLOSING TIME [05:10]And it's partner found, it's partner lost [05:13]and it's hell to pay when the fiddler stops [05:16] It's CLOSING TIME [05:21]I swear it happened just like this: [05:23]a sigh, a cry, a hungry kiss [05:26] It's CLOSING TIME [05:30]The Gates of Love they budg