Closing Time Chords by Leonard Cohen

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_ _ [Bm] _ _ _ _ _ _
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And [C] every drinker, every dancer lives a happy feast to thank of
[G] The fiddle [B] fiddle, sometimes [Em] so sublime
_ [D] All the women tear their blouses off
The men they dance on the polka [C] dots
And his partner found, and his partner lost
And his head will pain in the fitness [G] dot
Frozen time, frozen time, frozen time, frozen time
[C] All the women tear their blouses off
The men they dance on the polka [G] dots
And his partner [B] found, and his partner [Em] lost
And his head will [C] pain in the fitness dot
_ _ [G] It's closing _ time
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_ _ _ _ Now [G] we're lonely, we're romantic
And the saddle is with acid
[Em] And the holy spirit's crying, where's the beer?
_ [Bm] Now the lonely swim in naked
And the summer night is fragrant
[Em] With a mighty expectation of relief
So [C] we struggle and we stagger down the snakes
And up the ladder [G] to the tower
[B] Where the blessed [Em] hours chime
_ [D] And I swear it happened just like this
Yes I cried, hugged, and [C] kissed
Gates of love they buzzed and hinged
I can't say much has happened [G] since
Frozen time, frozen time, frozen time, frozen [C] time
I swear it happened just like this
Yes I cried, hugged, and [G] kissed
Gates of [B] love they buzzed and [Em] hinged
I can't say [C] much has happened since
Can't say much has happened since
_ _ [G] But it's closing _ time
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Closing time
_ _ _ [Em] I love you for your beauty
That doesn't make a fool of me
[Bm] You were in it for your beauty too
_ [Em] I loved you for your body
There's a voice that sounds like God to [A] me Declare it Declare it
_ _ Declare [D] it Declare it
Declare it that your body's really me
_ [C] I loved you when I was best
I love you now there's nothing [G] left
But sorrow [B] when the sands of [Em] the world die
And [D] our mystery of sin's a place God wrecked
And I just don't care what happens [C] next
Looks like freedom but it feels like death
It's something in between, I [G] guess it's closing time
Closing time, time, closing time
[C] Yeah our mystery of sin's a place God wrecked
By the winds of change and the weeds of [G] sex
And it looks like [B] freedom but it feels like [Em] death
It's something [C] in between, I guess _
_ [G] It's closing time _ _
_ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [G] Yeah we're drinking and we're dancing
But there's nothing really happening
[Em] And the place is dead, it's heaven on a Saturday night
_ [Bm] And my very gross companion gets me falling
Gets me laughing, [Em] she's a houndred
But she's wearing something tame
_ [C] And I lift my glass to the awful truth
Which I can't reveal to the ears of [G] you
Except to [B] say it isn't [Em] worth the time
And [D] the whole damn place goes crazy twice
And it's once for the devil and it's once for [C] Christ
But the boss don't like these dizzy heights
We're busted in the blinding [G] lights
It's closing time _ _ _
_ [C] The whole damn place goes crazy twice
And it's once for the devil and it's once for [G] Christ
But the boss don't [B] like these dizzy [Em] heights
We're busted [C] in the blinding lights
We're busted in the blinding lights
Busted in the blinding [G] lights
It's closing time _
_ _ [D] _ _ _ Closing time _
_ [G] Oh the women tear their blouses off
And the men they dance on the broken [D] dance
It's _ closing time
_ [G] There's part when I found, there's part when I lost
I was held to pain when the thinner [D] stops
It's closing _ _ time
_ [G] And I swear it happened just like this
A sad cry, a hundred [D] kisses
Closing time, closing time, closing time, closing [G] time
The gates of love they rushed in
And you can't say much has happened
[D] Since the closing time, closing time, closing time, closing [G] time
I loved you when our love was blessed
I love you now, there's nothing [D] left We're closed _ _ _ _
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