Closing Time

Leonard Cohen / Leonard Cohen: The Future (1992)

	G5	D5		G
			Ah, we're	drinking and we're dancing and the band is really happ'nin',

	Em
and the	Johnny Walker wisdom running high,

	Bm
And my	very sweet companion, she's the angel of compassion,

	Em
She's	rubbin' half the world against her thigh.

	C
And eve'y	drinker, every dancer lifts a happy face to thank her,

	G	B	Em
The	fiddler fiddles	somethin' so sub	lime.

	G
Ah, 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	B	Em
To the	tower where the	blessed hours	chime.

	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
De	claring (declaring) declaring (declaring)

	D
De	claring that you're body's really you. (really really really really)

	C
And I	loved you when our love was blessed, and I love you now there's nothin' left

	G	B	Em
But	sorrow and a	sense of over	time.

	G
Yeah, we're	drinking and we're dancing, but there's nothing really happening,

	Em
And the	place is dead as Heaven on a Saturday night;

	Bm
And my	very close companion gets me fumblin', gets me laughin',

	Em
She's a	hundred but she's wearin' somethin' tight.

	C
And I	lift my glass to the Awful Truth which you can't reveal to the ears of youth,

	G	B	Em
Ex	cept to say it	isn't worth a	dime.

	G	D
Oh, the	women tear their blouses off, and the men, they dance on the polka dots, it's	closin' time.

And it's partner found, and it's partner lost, And it's hell to pay when the fiddler stops: it's closing time.

I swear it happened just like this: A sigh, a cry, a hungry kiss, it's closing time.

The gates of love, they budged an inch; I can't say much has happened since but closing time.

I loved you when our love was blessed, I love you now, there's nothing left but closing time.

And I missed you since our place got wrecked by the winds of change and the weeds of sex, it's closing time.