Makes sense for twins, perhaps? Otherwise I’m not sure this works in the macro picture.Ĭlosing time, every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end. Although I’m not sure that this line is really spectacular in the bar OR pregnancy contexts. The womb wasn’t available until the other siblings got out of there. Makes more context in the childbirth sense than the bar sense actually.Ĭlosing time, this room won’t be open till your brothers or your sisters come 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.Ĭlosing time, time for you to go out 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 So this is quite definitively the child being bounced from the womb.
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?Ĭlosing time, you don’t have to go home but you can’t stay here.
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.Ĭlosing time, one last call for alcohol so finish your whiskey or beer The “boy/girl” stuff makes more sense now. 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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