Ah we´re drinking and we´re dancing
and the band is really happening
and the Johnny Walker wisdom running high
And my very sweet companion
she´s the Angel of Compassion
she´s rubbing half the world against her thigh
And every drinker every dancer
lifts a happy face to thank her
the fiddler fiddles something so sublime
all the women tear their blouses off
and the men they dance on the polka-dots
and it´s partner found, it´s partner lost
and it´s hell to pay when the fiddler stops:
it´s CLOSING TIME
Yeah the women tear their blouses off
and the men they dance on the polka-dots
and it´s partner found, it´s partner lost
and it´s hell to pay when the fiddler stops:
it´s CLOSING TIME

Ah we´re lonely, we´re romantic
and the cider´s laced with acid
and the Holy Spirit´s crying, "Where´s the beef?"
And the moon is swimming naked
and the summer night is fragrant
with a mighty expectation of relief
So we struggle and we stagger
down the snakes and up the ladder
to the tower where the blessed hours chime
and I swear it happened just like this:
a sigh, a cry, a hungry kiss
the Gates of Love they budged an inch
I can´t say much has happened since
but CLOSING TIME

I swear it happened just like this:
a sigh, a cry, a hungry kiss
the Gates of Love they budged an inch
I can´t say much has happened since
CLOSING TIME

I loved you for your beauty
but that doesn´t make a fool of me:
you were in it for your beauty too
and I loved you for your body
there´s a voice that sounds like God to me
declaring, declaring, declaring that your body´s really you
And I loved you when our love was blessed
and I love you now there´s nothing left
but sorrow and a sense of overtime
and I missed you since the place got wrecked
And I just don´t care what happens next
looks like freedom but it feels like death
it´s something in between, I guess
it´s CLOSING TIME

Yeah I missed you since the place got wrecked
By the winds of change and the weeds of sex
looks like freedom but it feels like death
it´s something in between, I guess
it´s CLOSING TIME

Yeah we´re drinking and we´re dancing
but there´s nothing really happening
and the place is dead as Heaven on a Saturday night
And my very close companion
gets me fumbling gets me laughing
she´s a hundred but she´s wearing
something tight
and I lift my glass to the Awful Truth
which you can´t reveal to the Ears of Youth
except to say it isn´t worth a dime
And the whole damn place goes crazy twice
and it´s once for the devil and once for Christ
but the Boss don´t like these dizzy heights
we´re busted in the blinding lights,
busted in the blinding lights
of CLOSING TIME

The whole damn place goes crazy twice
and it´s once for the devil and once for Christ
but the Boss don´t like these dizzy heights
we´re busted in the blinding lights,
busted in the blinding lights
of CLOSING TIME

Oh the women tear their blouses off
and the men they dance on the polka-dots
It´s CLOSING TIME
And it´s partner found, 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
I miss you since the place got wrecked
By the winds of change and the weeds of sex.