Semisonic contributed the title song for the 1999 Kevin Costner movie For Love of the Game. 'Over My Head', a bonus track on some editions of All About Chemistry, was used in the 2001 teen flick Summer Catch. 'Closing Time' appeared in the 2011 movie Friends with Benefits. Nov 8, 2018 - 'Closing Time' was the big hit on Semisonic's second album, 1998's Feeling. 'Closing Time' went on to top the Alternative Songs chart and garner a. We had spent seven years of our lives at that point, four nights a week.
The lead singer of Semisonic says he wrote the song as a metaphor for childbirth. A line-by-line examination into the lyrics must be done. In 1998, a song called Closing Time came out as the debut single from a band called Semisonic.
The song featured lyrics (ostensibly) about a lonely person’s experience during last call at a bar. It would be Semisonic’s only hit — but what a hit. Closing Time was immediately and permanently the go-to song for the end of the night at bars, weddings, bar mitzvahs, parties, quinceaneras and Semisonic concerts. But here’s the thing. No one reazlied Semisonic had a little of that Robert Frost mojo in them.
It turns out the entire song was actually a metaphor for childbirth. Semisonic’s lead singer, Dan Wilson, during a performance at his 25th reunion at Harvard Millions and millions of people bought the song and heard the song and didn’t get it. They think it’s about being bounced from a bar but it’s about being bounced from the womb. So let’s go line-by-line through Closing Time and try to interpret it in its alternative context. Closing time, open all the doors and let you out into the world Doors = the vagina.
We’re off to a smashing start. Closing time, turn all of the lights on over every boy and every girl The “boy/girl” stuff makes more sense now.
And I guess this line refers to hospital lights? Unless it’s a metaphor on top of a metaphor and is referring to the beginning of human consciousness or something. Closing time, one last call for alcohol so finish your whiskey or beer Gee, wonder why people thought this was really about a bar? Is whisky and beer like one last quick suck of nutrients from the umbilical cord? Closing time, you don’t have to go home but you can’t stay here.
So this is quite definitively the child being bounced from the womb. I know who I want to take me home / I know who I want to take me home / I know who I want to take me home / Take me home The baby wants his parents to take him home? This feels a little insecure, like Dan Wilson was worried his baby might’ve rejected him for one of the guys from Better Than Ezra. Closing time, time for you to go out to the places you will be from Logical.
Makes more context in the childbirth sense than the bar sense actually. Closing time, this room won’t be open till your brothers or your sisters come Makes way more sense.
The womb wasn’t available until the other siblings got out of there. Although I’m not sure that this line is really spectacular in the bar OR pregnancy contexts.
So gather up your jackets Placenta? Move it to the exits There’s that vagina talk again. I hope you have found a friend.
Makes sense for twins, perhaps? Otherwise I’m not sure this works in the macro picture. Closing time, every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end. Sure thing, makes sense, pregnancy ends, life begins, lightning crashes. And from here on, it’s just the chorus a few more times and a few repeated lines.
Verdict: It really might be about childbirth, with a few serious red herrings thrown in. Next week: Perhaps I can examine whether the Counting Crows’ Mr. Jones is secretly about the Nancy Kerrigan’s knee. — You may also like Filed Under: Tagged With:, About Sam Greenspan.
Lyrics Semisonic Closing time Time for you to go out go out into the world. Closing time Turn the lights up over every boy and every girl.
Closing time One last call for alcohol so finish your whiskey or beer. Closing time You don't have to go home but you can't stay here. I know who I want to take me home. I know who I want to take me home.
I know who I want to take me home. Take me home Closing time Time for you to go back to the places you will be from. Closing time This room won't be open 'til your brothers or you sisters come.
So gather up your jackets, and move it to the exits I hope you have found a Friend. Closing time Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end. Yeah, I know who I want to take me home. I know who I want to take me home.
I know who I want to take me home. Take me home Closing time Time for you to go back to the places you will be from I know who I want to take me home. I know who I want to take me home. I know who I want to take me home. Take me home Closing time Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end Written by WILSON, DAN Published by Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., Universal Music Publishing Group Lyrics Provided By LyricFind Inc. Chat About Closing Time by Semisonic.