"Closing Time" starts off as an euphoric track about a wild party. The fiddler fiddles something so sublime All the women tear their blouses off And the men they dance on the polka-dots As the song goes on, the scene evolves from the closing of the bar, to the concluding of a relationship, to the end of life. 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
Cohen based "Closing Time" on a violin sample that came with a Casio keyboard. "When he first started recording it, the sample was slowed down," engineer Leanne Unger told Uncut magazine. "It was very moody, with six string bass, very vibey. I loved it." She added: "He came in for next weekend and said, 'It's all wrong, I'm starting over.' I was like, 'Noooooo!' Devastated. He brought it back in a week later and it was uptempo, jumping, and he had a giant hit with it in Canada. So what do I know?"
The song peaked at #70 in Canada. It was Cohen's second-biggest hit in his native country after "Hallelujah."
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