Well I've tasted love so sweetnPlayed around but not for keepsnI never been knocked off my feetnTill you came alongnIn the room surrounding menAre angels I cannot seenI know they come to carry me tonWhere I belongnnCloser to you, closer to younI'm singing like a sailor strutting up your avenuenLike a clown in a costume shopnWith a pocket full of jewelsnnAll the knocks upon your doornFootsteps fallen on your floornAll the shipwrecks on your shorenMean nothing to menAll the crooks on Capitol HillnCriminals on the dollar billsnAll the money on Wall Street stillnCouldn't keep me from gettingnnCloser to you. Closer to younLike a priest on a pulpit preaching to an empty roomnLike a drunk in a dive bar in the early afternoonnCloser to you.nnPoets could not pronounce your namenGamblers couldn't play the gamenMatchstick statues set to flamenCouldn't hold a candle to younSwindlers on the Sunset stripnHypnotists and hypocritesnVentriloquists and PickpocketsnWish that they could getnnWell I've tasted love so sweetnPlayed around but not for keepsnI never been knocked off my feet till you came alongnnI sit through the trickerynThe jealousy and vanitynThe potency of your prophesynBecause I long to bennCloser to you. Closer to younLike a hound dog in a junkyard honeynI'm howling at the moonnLike a Pirate in a pawnshop with a pocket full of jewelsnnCloser to you [Repeat: x3]nnI'll get throughnOh baby I'll get throughnCloser to you