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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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