"Closing Time" -- Indepth Study
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to grab the glasses from our hands
& give away our suits and glands
O darling, all the promised lands
are ?? built upon the sands
          of closing time

peaks of Closing Time

they ought to bust the evening
with a ticket for speeding
don't they know that it's a crime

And my very close companion
that incurable romantic
she's giving everyone of us the eye

I'll love you tho my love's denied
like a ghost that love you from the other side

formaldahyde

But let's be quiet now, the band's
about to sound the final strands
          of Closing Time

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It's summer & we're naked
& the night is young & fragrant
with a mighty expectation
          of relief

We drop a little acid
just to get us off the planet
but the planet comes
to bust us in the teeth

We drop a little acid
& it's ?? & it's tragic
it's ??, this way back

and we're ??

an experimental habit

We drop a little acid
& it's boring and it's tragic
& the Holy Spirit's crying, where's the beef?

for the old religious magic

We drop a little acid
got to get us off the planet
but the Holy Spirit's crying, Where's the beef

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I loved you when our house
          was blessed
the food was served
          and the kids were dressed
and I don't recall what happened next
but I love you now that nothing's left
          but closing time

It's summer & we're naked
& the night is very fragrant
with a mighty expectation
          of relief
And we drop a little acid
and there's sobbing from the attic
it's the Holy Spirit crying Where's
          the beef
And we struggle & we stagger
down the snakes & up the ladder
to the tower where the blessed hour
          chimes
& I swear it happened just like this
She touched my face, I kissed her lips
The Gates of Love, they budged an inch
& Nothing much has happened since
          but Closing Time

And my very close companion
says a prayer & lights a candle
& the

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There's acid in the cider
& We'd get a little higher
but the Holy Spirit's crying
          'Where's the beef?'

So we

and I'd love to see her naked
and the (very) summer night is fragrant
with a mighty expectation of relief

There's acid in the cider,
& we'd (like to) get a little higher
but the Holy Spirit's crying
          'Where's the beef?'

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Too late too late

There's acid in the cider
& there's candles & a choice

We drop a little acid
and the Holy Spirit's frantic
and she asking everybody,
          Where's the beef?

We're dying to be famous
to be ??, to be outrageous
We were dying to be dead
          by twenty-five
We'd drop a little acid
just to get us off the planet
It was legal then,
          nobody seemed to mind

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that I forgive myself again

and all the lights come on ??
          it closing

for losing what

that I forget to fill my glass

          & the weather stops
          the women tear their sweaters off
          someone must have called the cops

The clocks wind down & the weather stops

that every heart is broken twice
once for nothing, once for a price
The boss don't like those dizzy heights
so we're busted in the blinding lights
          of Closing Time

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We're lively and romantic
and we've dropped a little acid
with some modest expectation of relief

And my very close companion

and the Holy Spirit's wearing something brief

And I'm happy the traveling
with my very close companion

We're lively and romantic
& we've dropped a little acid
& it doesn't really matter much at all

I want to ?? his fiddle in
I want my baby back again
It's me against a hundred men
And all the lights come on & then
          it's closing time

We've dropped a little acid
& the visions are ecstatic
but the Holy Spirit's crying
          where's the beef

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it's like your heart is breaking twice
once for love and once for life

it's like your heart is breaking twice
once for your lover, once for your life

We're lonely and we're frantic
and the wafer's laced with acid
and the Holy Spirit's crying
          "Where's the beef?"
And it's crazy & we're naked
& the very night is fragrant
with a mighty expectation of relief.

that every heart gets broken twice
once for nothing and once for Christ
But the Boss don't like these dizzy heights
and we're busted in the blinding lights
          of Closing Time

We're drinking & we're dying
& the Holy Spirits crying
and she asking everybody
          Where's the beef?

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that every heart is broken twice
once for the man and once for Christ
and lest we linger at these heights
we're busted in the blinding lights
          of Closing Time

& coming sharply off those heights
we're busted in the blinding light

that every heart gets broken twice
once for the music and once for Christ
but the Boss don't like these dizzy heights
so we're busted in the blinding lights

once for your lover & once for your life

(that it feels) it's like your heart is breaking twice
once for your lover & once for your life

          it's like your heart is breaking twice
          once for your lover, once for your life
          but ?? we scale these dizzy heights
          we're busted in the blinding lights
          of Closing Time

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the women tear their sweaters off
the men go crazy with the polka dots
we all get together & forgive the cops
Everybody's busted when the music stops
          it's Closing Time

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