Closer To You-Marcia Griffiths

[00:01.12]Brett Dennen - Closer To You [00:08.10] [00:11.67]Well I’ve tasted love so sweet [00:14.38]Played around but not for keeps [00:17.25]I never been knocked off my feet [00:19.49]Till you came along [00:22.43]In the room surrounding me [00:24.75]Are angels I cannot see [00:28.01]I know they come to carry me to [00:30.81]Where I belong [00:32.65] [00:33.06]Closer to you, closer to you [00:38.31]I’m singing like a sailor strutting up your avenue [00:43.61]Like a clown in a costume shop [00:46.48]With a pocket full of jewels [00:52.22] [00:54.79]All the knocks upon your door [00:57.75]Footsteps fallen on your floor [01:00.23]All the shipwrecks on your shore [01:02.61]Mean nothing to me [01:05.51]All the crooks on Capitol Hill [01:08.13]Criminals on the dollar bills [01:11.05]All the money on Wall Street still [01:13.49]Couldn’t keep me from getting [01:16.00] [01:16.24]Closer to you. Closer to you [01:21.31]Like a priest on a pulpit preaching to an empty room [01:26.72]Like a drunk in a dive bar in the early afternoon [01:31.83]Closer to you. [01:35.18] [01:38.02]Poets could not pronounce your name [01:40.86]Gamblers couldn’t play the game [01:43.29]Matchstick statues set to flame [01:45.74]Couldn’t hold a candle to you [01:48.93]Swindlers on the Sunset strip [01:51.66]Hypnotists and hypocrites [01:54.02]Ventriloquists and Pickpockets [01:56.84]Wish that they could get [02:02.07] [02:21.16]Well I’ve tasted love so sweet [02:23.78]Played around but not for keeps [02:26.69]I never been knocked off my feet till you came along [02:31.29] [02:31.78]I sit through the trickery [02:34.22]The jealousy and vanity [02:36.85]The potency of your prophesy [02:39.53]Because I long to be [02:41.76] [02:41.93]Closer to you. Closer to you [02:47.54]Like a hound dog in a junkyard honey [02:50.40]I’m howling at the moon [02:52.98]Like a Pirate in a pawnshop with a pocket full of jewels [02:58.67]Closer to you (x3) [03:08.53] [03:08.75]I’ll get through [03:10.67]Oh baby I’ll get through [03:14.36]Closer to you [03:21.71]