"Closing Time" -- Indepth Study
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and though the gulf has opened wide
I'm faithful as the daily tide
across the rocks of love denied
I love you from the other side
          of closing time

I love you with a love denied

I treated you so poorly
I just loved you for your beauty
but you must admit
          you loved your beauty too
and I loved you for your body
I remember that you caught me
          at it thinking that your body
          might be you

You say I loved you very poorly
I was crazy for your beauty
          yah but you were crazy for your beauty too
and I loved you for your body
& I was so ashamed you caught me
          behaving like your body might be you

I was so ashamed that night you caught me
          thinking that your (beauty) body might be you
praying that your body might be you
acting like your body might be you

I was so ashamed you spotted me
          behaving like your body
          might be you


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I loved you when our love was blessed
& I love you now with nothing left
          but pain & a
          a toxic panic & a sense of overtime

but a lonely panic & a sense of overtime

the great mistake & the great divide

I'll love you with my dying (failing) breath
like I love you now with nothing left
          but panic & a sense of overtime

and when (then) the gulf has opened wide
I'll come to you as a ghost of tide
& I'll love your beauty with a love denied
I'll love you better from the other side
          of closing time


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I loved you for your beauty
I admit it, baby, sue me
          but you were in it for your beauty too
I loved you for your body
I'm sorry that you spotted me behaving like your beauty
          might be you

I loved you with my dying breath
with anything the dogs have left
a cuff-link or a bit of polished rhyme

and though the gulf has opened wide
there's still the ??, there's still the tide
I'll love you with a love denied
I'll love you from the other side
          of closing time

Remember it was opened with a rhyme

I loved you with my dying breath
I loved you now with nothing left
          but panic & a sense of overtime
I'll love


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I loved you for your beauty
I admit it, baby, sue me
          but weren't you in it for your beauty too
I loved you for your body
I'm sorry that you spotted me
          behaving like your beauty might be you
I loved you when our love was blessed
I love you now with nothing left
          but sorrow and a sense of overtime
and though the gulf has opened wide
I'm gonna cross the waters of the great divide
(and I'll love) I'm gonna love your beauty with a love denied
gonna love you better from the other side
          of closing time.


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lonely spirits crying, where's the beef?

the fiddles rise & the wind is cold
& one by one our kisses sold
          to closing time


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We're (broken) lonely & we're frantic
& the cider's laced with acid
and the holy spirit's crying, Where's the beef?
it's summer & we're naked
and the very night is fragrant
with the precious distillations of relief
and I follow my companion
down the snakes & up the ladder
to the tower where the rescued hours chime

and she (holds) calls me & I dance her
down the snakes & up the ladder
to the tower where the rescued hours chime

and I hold her & I dancer
down the snakes & up the ladder
to the tower when the lonely (rescued) hours chime

we're safely at the other side of closing time

and I watch my baby growing old
the shadow on her shades of gold
the fiddler gay & the wind is cold
and one by one our kisses sold
          to closing time

and the planets watch us growing


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And my very sweet companion
needs an answer not a lesson (koan)
and she's asking everybody,
          "Where's the beef?"

and the fiddler gets off something so sublime
the gates of love they budged an inch

I swear it happened just like this
I ?? her wings & she kissed my lips
the gates of love they budged an inch
& nothing much has happened since
          but closing time

We're drinking & we're dancing
(??) & the ciders laced with acid (and we're somewhat into acid)
& there's a mighty expectation of relief
and my very close companion
the ?? romantic
why she's asking everybody, Where's the beef?

We're drinking & we're dancing


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I'm tired of the ??
& a body don't ?? not having
when it's got to be examined in the ??

I'm tired of the mind of love
before, between, behind of love

I'm tired of the ?? & the rhyme

I'm tired of the great affair
& how it failed & why & where
& not that anyone should care
I stand here ready to declare
          it's closing time


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I'm tired of the women
and the wedding bells are ringing
like the silence of a nuclear attack
& I'm tired of the drinking
& the cigarettes are stinking
& there's something in my asshole turning black

& I'm tired of the (women) drinking
& my hemorrhoids are shrinking
but there's something in my asshole turning black

& my very close companion
she's romantic & old fashioned
& ?? she keeps applying for a Guggenheim

to study where it all went bad

to document the great affair
& how it failed & why & where
and not that anyone should care
but I love her still in the blinding glare
          of closing time

but I'm posed & ready to declare
          that its closing time


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to bust a heart for growing old
I love you and I won't be told
          its closing time


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