We’re off to a smashing start.Ĭlosing time, turn all of the lights on over every boy and every girl So let’s go line-by-line through Closing Time and try to interpret it in its alternative context.Ĭlosing time, open all the doors and let you out into the worldĭoors = the vagina.
They think it’s about being bounced from a bar but it’s about being bounced from the womb. Millions and millions of people bought the song and heard the song and didn’t get it. Semisonic’s lead singer, Dan Wilson, explained during a performance at his 25th reunion at Harvard… It turns out the entire song was actually a metaphor for childbirth. No one reazlied Semisonic had a little of that Robert Frost mojo in them. 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.īut here’s the thing. It would be Semisonic’s only hit - but what a hit. The song featured lyrics (ostensibly) about a lonely person’s experience during last call at a bar. In 1998, a song called Closing Time came out as the debut single from a band called Semisonic.
A line-by-line examination into the lyrics must be done. The lead singer of Semisonic says he wrote the song as a metaphor for childbirth.
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