Closing Time

Closing Time: Chords

Intro:
SOL        RE        SOL        RE

         SOL
Ah we're drinking and we're dancing
                       
And the band is really happening
        MIm                        
And the Johnny Walker wisdom running high
       SIm
And my very sweet companion
                       
She's the Angel of Compassion
      MIm                                
She's rubbing half the world against her thigh
          DO
And every drinker every dancer
                               
Lifts a happy face to thank her
    SOL             SI7            MIm
The fiddler fiddles something so sublime
        RE
All the women tear their blouses off

And the men they dance on the polka-dots
         DO         
And it's partner found, it's partner lost
                                     
And it's hell to pay when the fiddler stops
     SOL
It's Closing Time...
         DO
Yeah the women tear their blouses off

And the men they dance on the polka-dots
         SOL                 SI7
And it's partner found, it's partner lost
         MIm                  DO
And it's hell to pay when the fiddler stops
     SOL            RE               
It's Closing Time 

         SOL
Ah we're lonely, we're romantic

And the cider's laced with acid
        MIm
And the Holy Spirit's crying, 'Where's the beef?'
        SIm
And the moon is swimming naked
                     
And the summer night is fragrant
       MIm               
With a mighty expectation of relief
      DO
So we struggle and we stagger
         
Down the snakes and up the ladder
       SOL             SI7           MIm
To the tower where the blessed hours chime
      RE
And I swear it happened just like this

A sigh, a cry, a hungry kiss
    DO 
The Gates of Love they budged an inch
                            
I can't say much has happened since
    SOL
But Closing Time
  DO
I swear it happened just like this

A sigh, a cry, a hungry kiss
    SOL                SI7
The Gates of Love they budged an inch
  MIm                DO
I can't say much has happened since...
SOL              RE
Closing Time...  Closing time

  MIm
I loved you for your beauty

But that doesn't make a fool of me
SIm
You were in it for your beauty too
      MIm
And I loved you for your body
               
There's a voice that sounds like God to me
  LA                    RE      
Declaring, declaring, declaring 
 
that your body's really you
      DO
And I loved you when our love was blessed
     
And I love you now there's nothing left
    SOL          SI7          MIm
But sorrow and a sense of overtime
      RE
And I missed you since the place got wrecked

And I just don't care what happens next
DO                             
Looks like freedom but it feels like death
                  
It's something in between, I guess
     SOL
It's Closing Time
SOL7   DO
Yeah I missed you since the place got wrecked

By the winds of change and the weeds of sex
SOL                       SI7
Looks like freedom but it feels like death
     MIm             DO
It's something in between, I guess
     SOL             RE
It's Closing Time

           SOL
Yeah we're drinking and we're dancing

But there's nothing really happening
        MIm
And the place is dead as Heaven on a Saturday night
       SIm
And my very close companion
                      
Gets me fumbling gets me laughing
        MIm
She's a hundred but she's wearing
  
Something tight
      DO                    
And I lift my glass to the Awful Truth
                                 
Which you can't reveal to the Ears of Youth
  SOL            SI7           MIm
Except to say it isn't worth a dime
        RE
And the whole damn place goes crazy twice
                        
And it's once for the devil and once for Christ
        DO
But the Boss don't like these dizzy heights
                             
We're busted in the blinding lights
   SOL           
Of Closing Time
    DO
The whole damn place goes crazy twice

And it's once for the devil and once for Christ
        SOL                   SI7
But the Boss don't like these dizzy heights
      MIm           DO
We're busted in the blinding lights...

Busted in the blinding lights
   SOL            RE  
Of Closing Time...Closing time

       SOL
Oh the women tear their blouses off

And the men they dance on the polka-dots
     RE
It's Closing Time
         SOL
And it's partner found, it's partner lost

And it's hell to pay when the fiddler stops
     RE
It's Closing Time
  SOL
I swear it happened just like this:

A sigh, a cry, a hungry kiss
     RE
It's Closing Time
    SOL
The Gates of Love they budged an inch

I can't say much has happened since
    RE
But Closing Time
  SOL
I loved you when our love was blessed

I love you now there's nothing left
    RE
But Closing Time
  SOL
I miss you since the place got wrecked

By the winds of change and the weeds of sex
    RE
But Closing Time...

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Chitarra Acustica

Closing Time è un brano scritto e interpretato da Leonard Cohen, contenuto nell'album The Future pubblicato nel 1992. Nono disco di inediti per il cantautore canadese, si rivelò uno dei suoi lavori più riusciti... ciò nonostante dopo di esso si rinchiuse in un monastero zen per ben cinque anni! La canzone è la quarta traccia dell'album, una vivace ballata che combina il pop, il folk ed il country in un sound che al contrario presenta più tastiere che strumenti acustici. Ottima per la chitarra!

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L'autore del post

Alberto Moneti

36 anni, polistrumentista: pianoforte, chitarra, batteria, clarinetto. Ha conseguito la licenza in teoria musicale e solfeggio presso il Conservatorio Cherubini di Firenze. Dal 1997 è organista presso la Basilica di Santa Maria del Sasso, a Bibbiena (AR).