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Tracks
The Cardigans
Emmerdale
Closing Time

TRACK

Closing Time

Release date: 1994

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About This Track

"Closing Time" is a track by The Cardigans, from the album Emmerdale, released 1994. Full lyrics are available below.

About the Artist

The Cardigans

The Cardigans

Lyrics

Closing Time

[Chorus]

It's closing time, and a well-known fact

Is that life is very short

It's closing time says the band

And it seems that life is very short

[Verse 1]

The baker in town was fat as a cow

At the end of the day he ate all remains

The baker in town was murdered one day

An order was left of 200 pies

We've all got some vice

After closing time

[Interlude]

So this is it!

The carnival is now heading for a new town

We hope you enjoyed the show

The party at Gordon's developed into a chaos

But the report says no one was hurt

And we've also heard that Charley actually did solve the case

The gruesome killing of the bakerman

Finally, the clown left the circus to become a plumber

He says: "suits me just fine, and life is very fine

And this is closing time

[Chorus]

It's closing time, and a well-known fact

Is that life is very short

It's closing time says the band

And it seems that life is very short

It's closing time, and a well-known fact

Is that life is very short

It's closing time says the band

And it seems that life is very short

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La la la la, la la lalala

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La la la la, la lalalalalala

La la la la la la la

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La la la la la la la

[Outro]

Life - greatest of all

Life - strongest of all

But at the same time

Most delicate time

Could well end in a moment

Lyrics provided by LRCLIB

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Track details

From Emmerdale

1994

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Album

Release year

1994

—Sunday Circus Song
—Cloudy Sky
—Last Song
—In the Afternoon
—Our Space
—Over the Water
—Seems Hard
—Travelling With Charley
—After All...
—Celia Inside
—Pikebubbles
—Closing Time
—Sabbath Bloody Sabbath

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Credits

Production & Engineering

Writer: Lars-Olof Johansson, Magnus Sveningsson, Peter Svensson
Producer: Tore Johansson
Engineer: Tore Johansson
Flute: Anders Nordgren
Mastering Engineer: Björn Engelmann
Mixing Engineer: Tore Johansson
Recording Engineer: Tore Johansson
Trumpet: Johan Beiron Thor, Tore Johansson