Well i`ve tasted love so sweet
Played around but not for keeps
I never been knocked off my feet

Till you came along
In the room surrounding me
Are angels i cannot see

I know they come to carry me to
Where i belong


Closer to you, closer to you
I`m singing like a sailor strutting up your avenue
Like a clown in a costume shop

With a pocket full of jewels

All the knocks upon your door

Footsteps fallen on your floor
All the shipwrecks on your shore
Mean nothing to me

All the crooks on capitol hill
Criminals on the dollar bills
All the money on wall street still

Couldn`t keep me from getting

Closer to you. closer to you

Like a priest on a pulpit preaching to an empty room
Like a drunk in a dive bar in the early afternoon
Closer to you.poets could not pronounce your name

Gamblers couldn`t play the game
Matchstick statues set to flame
Couldn`t hold a candle to you

Swindlers on the sunset strip
Hypnotists and hypocrites
Ventriloquists and pickpockets

Wish that they could get

Well i`ve tasted love so sweet

Played around but not for keeps
I never been knocked off my feet till you came along


I sit through the trickery
The jealousy and vanity
The potency of your prophesy

Because i long to be

Closer to you. closer to you

Like a hound dog in a junkyard honey
I`m howling at the moon
Like a pirate in a pawnshop with a pocket full of jewels


Closer to you (x3)


I`ll get through
Oh baby i`ll get through
Closer to you