Closing Time chords by Leonard Cohen

Chords with lyrics

intro
G, D, G, D MajorD

verse 1
      G+G
Ah, we're drinking and we're dancing

And the band is really happening
     E minorEm
And the Johnny Walker wisdom running high

    B minorBm
And my very sweet companion

She's the Angel of Compassion
      E minorEm
And she's rubbing half the world against her thigh

      C majorC
And every drinker, every dancer

Lifts a happy face to thank her
     G+G         B7B7         E minorEm
And the fiddler fiddles something so sublime

verse 2
     D MajorD
All the women tear their blouses off

The men they dance on the polka dots
     C majorC
And it's partner found and it's partner lost

And it's hell to pay when the fiddler stops
   G+G
It's closing time

      C majorC
Yeah, the women tear their blouses off

The men they dance on the polka dots
     G+G            B7B7
And it's partner found and it's partner lost

     E minorEm           C majorC
And it's hell to pay when the fiddler stops

   G+G        D MajorD
It's closing time

verse 3
    G+G
We're lonely, we're romantic

And the cider's laced with acid
     E minorEm
And the Holy Spirit's crying, "Where's the beef?"

     B minorBm
And the moon is swimming naked

And the summer night is fragrant
    E minorEm
With a mighty expectation of relief


verse 4
    C majorC
So we struggle and we stagger

Down the snakes and up the ladder
    G+G         B7B7        E minorEm
To the tower where the blessed hours chime

    D MajorD
And I swear it happened just like this:

A augmentedA sigh, a cry, a hungry kiss
   C majorC
The Gates of Love they budged an inch

I can't say much has happened since
   G+G
But closing time

  C majorC
I swear it happned just like this:

A augmentedA sigh, a cry, a hungry kiss
   G+G          B7B7
The Gates of Love they budged an inch

  E minorEm          C majorC
I can't say much has happened since

 (can't say much has happned since, can't say much has happened since)
   G+G        D MajorD
But closing time, closing time


bridge
  E minorEm
I loved you for your beauty

But that doesn't make a fool of me
 B minorBm
You were in it for your beauty too

    E minorEm
And I loved you for your body

There's a voice that sounds like God to me
 A augmentedA                 A7A7
Declaring (declaring) declaring (declaring)

 D MajorD
Declaring that you're body's really you (really really really really)

  C majorC
I loved you when our love was blessed

I love you now there's nothing left
   G+G       B7B7       E minorEm
But sorrow and a sense of overtime


verse 5
    D MajorD
And I miss you since the place got wrecked

But I just don't care what happens next
 C majorC
Looks like freedom but it feels like death

It's something in between, I guess
   G+G
It's closing time

     C majorC
Yeah. I miss you since the place got wrecked

by the winds of change and the weeds of sex
 G+G              B7B7
Looks like freedom but it feels like death

   E minorEm        C majorC
It's something in between, I guess

   G+G       D MajorD
It's closing time


verse 6
       G+G
Yeah, we're drinking and we're dancing

But there's nothing really happening
   E minorEm
The place is dead as Heaven on a Saturday night

    B minorBm
And my very close companion

Gets me fumbing gets me laughing
     E minorEm
She's a hundred but she's wearing something tight


verse 7
    C majorC
And I lift my glass to the Awful Truth

Which you can't reveal to the Ears of Youth
  G+G        B7B7        E minorEm
Except to say it isn't worth a dime

     D MajorD
And the whole damn place goes crazy twice

And it's once for the Devil and it's once for Christ
     C majorC
But the Boss don't like these dizzy heights

We're busted in the blinding lights
  G+G
Of closing time

   C majorC
The whole damn place goes crazy twice

And it's once for the Devil and it's once for Christ
     G+G            B7B7
But the Boss don't like these dizzy heights

    E minorEm        C majorC
We're busted in the blinding lights

(busted in the blinding lights)
Busted in the blinding lights
  G+G        D MajorD
Of closing time, closing time


verse 8
     G+G
Oh, the women tear their blouses off

And the men they dance on the polka dots,
   D MajorD
It's closing time

     G+G
And it's partner found, and it's partner lost

And it's hell to pay when the fiddler stops
   D MajorD
It's closing time

  G+G
I swear it happned just like this:

A augmentedA sigh, a cry, a hungry kiss,
   D MajorD
It's closing time

   G+G
The gates of love they budged an inch

I can't say much has happned since
   D MajorD
But closing time

  G+G
I loved you when our love was blessed

I love you now, there's nothing left
   D MajorD
But closing time

    G+G
And I missed you since our place gor wrecked

By the winds of change and the weeds of sex,
   D MajorD
It's closing time