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    Wearing nothing but my birthday suit      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