Cindy, the Leonard Closing Time, or some other song with that name?

Green Day. Or possibly Semisonic. Or both. I disremember, and can find both bands cited, but can't find a writing credit. It goes:

Closing time
Open all the doors
And let you out into
The world.

Closing time
Turn off all
The lights on over
Every boy and every girl.
Closing time
One last call for alcohol
So finish your whiskey or beer.
Closing time
You don't have to go home
But you can't stay here.

(CHORUS:) I know who I want to take me home.
I know who I want to take me home.
I know who I want to take me home...
take me home.

Closing time
Time for you to go out
To the places
You will be from.
Closing time
This room won't be open till
Your brothers or sisters come.
So gather up your jackets
Move into the exits.
I hope you have found your friend.
Closing time
Every new beginning comes from
Some other beginning's end,
Yeah...

(CHORUS)

Closing time
Time for you to go out to
The places you will leave from.

(CHORUS)

Closing time
Every new beginning comes
From some other beginning's end

I just googled "Closing Time Leonard Cohen" to see what his was (or if he originally wrote the one I was thinking of), and it's different (but ya know, it would also be a pretty interesting Angel vid, especially this bit)

I loved you for your beauty
but that doesn't make a fool of me:
you were in it for your beauty too
and I loved you for your body
there's a voice that sounds like God to me
declaring, declaring, declaring that your body's really you
And 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

Is there a vid for that?

Cindy, give it time. The good vidders take weeks or months.

I think I'm easy (I haven't watched many, don't have sound hooked up to the PC right now, anyhow). I wish I'd seen your typo.

ION, someone is grilling steaks somewhere nearby and it's making me hungry. We're having pizza, because our grill did not survive the move, and I haven't shopped, and this was a week from hell. Heh. I guess I could set a vid of me sitting idly in my kitchen, refusing to cook, to "Closing Time" too.

I know the Leonard Version (or, the ONLY SONG ALLOWED TO BE CALLED BY THAT NAME WHEN I RULE THE UNIVERSE) has been on heavy rotation in my car the last week.

(edit: especially the following)

and I lift my glass to the Awful Truth 
which you can't reveal to the Ears of Youth 
except to say it isn't worth a dime 
And the whole damn place goes crazy twice 
and it's once for the devil and once for Christ 
but the Boss don't like these dizzy heights 
we're busted in the blinding lights, 
busted in the blinding lights 
of CLOSING TIME 

Lower than the Bronze sex?

She seemed to have been enjoying that.

My typo was that I typed "write" instead of "read". Which, you know. I'm modest, but not that modest, about my writing.

She was supposed to be enjoying it in the alley, per the script. Mayhaps SMG just wasn't enjoying it. I found the Bronze sex worse for me to watch, but that is part of what made that episode great-to-me.

I know the Leonard Version (or, the ONLY SONG ALLOWED TO BE CALLED BY THAT NAME WHEN I RULE THE UNIVERSE) has been on heavy rotation in my car the last week.

I have to get me some Cohen. Stat. Funny about the car though, I was driving yesterday, and desperately trying to find any version of "Not Fade Away" on the radio, when I happened upon that song I mentioned, which we can call "Take me home" when you rule the universe.

Ooh, I don't think I saw that verse when Googling. Is this another song LC did 5 versions of?

She seemed to have been enjoying that.

Mmm. I'd flip them, but by a hair. She seemed more mortified then to me.

Ooh, I don't think I saw that verse when Googling. Is this another song LC did 5 versions of?

Nope, not really. I mean, standard variations, but not sweeping changes and alternate lyrics. All the lyrics are available at [link] of course.

Can we also have a vid to "I'm only happy when it rains"?

Dude. I'm a huge Garbage fan. That would rock.

Also, Cindy, it's Semisonic.

Lower than the Bronze sex?

The Bronze sex was on that catwalk/second floor structure. Which looks a lot like an alley.

Have also decided, been a HUGE sap, that a Wes/Illyria vid needs to be made to Light as the Breeze.

So I knelt there at the delta
at the alpha and the omega
I knelt there 
like one who believes
and like a blessing come from heaven
for something like a second
I was cured, and my heart
was at ease. 

Damn, I love Cohen. I read his lyrics and his poetry and I collapse in a state of awe from which there is no real return.