closing time

the future albümünden bir leonard cohen parçası.

sözleri:

Ah we're drinking and we're dancing
and the band is really happening
and the Johnnie 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 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.

tom waits'in ilk albümünden aynı adı taşıyan şarkı.. daimi, uğurlama şarkısı.. kendini herseyin ruzgar gibi gectigi o filmdeki, sikarlit karakteri gibi yataklara atip aglayasin gelir..

muhteşem bir leonard cohen klasiği; '92 tarihli the future albümünden.

videosu da şöyle hatta; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrPEM2qc-j8

1998 tarihli, greatest hits of the 90's albümünde de yer alan güzel bir semisonic parçası,
Closing time, time for you to go out, go out into the world.
Closing time, turn the lights up over every boy and every girl.
Closing time, one last call for alcohol, so finish your whiskey or beer.
Closing time, you don't have to go home but you can't stay here..

harç bitti yapı paydos anlamında algılanabilecek bir cohen şarkısı. sepeti koluna olayı...

semisonic'in unutulmaz şarkısıdır. bir çok kez coverı yapılmıştır. (bkz: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgytdsqkqy8)
sözleri ise şöyledir;

closing time
time for you to go out go out into the world.
closing time
turn the lights up over every boy and every girl.
closing time
one last call for alcohol so finish your whiskey or beer.
closing time
you don't have to go home but you can't stay here.

i know who i want to take me home.
i know who i want to take me home.
i know who i want to take me home.
take me home

closing time
time for you to go back to the places you will be from.
closing time
this room won't be open 'til your brothers or you sisters come.
so gather up your jackets, and move it to the exits
i hope you have found a
friend.

closing time
every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.

yeah, i know who i want to take me home.
i know who i want to take me home.
i know who i want to take me home.
take me home

closing time
time for you to go back to the places you will be from

i know who i want to take me home.
i know who i want to take me home.
i know who i want to take me home.
take me home

closing time
every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end

Güzide bir semisonic şarkısı. 90'lı yılların yapı taşlarından biri olmasıyla beraber nakarat ve melodisiyle akıllardan çıkmayandır.