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About This Track
“Closing Time” is a song by Semisonic from their album Feeling Strangely Fine. The band’s most popular song, it was written by Dan Wilson and produced by Nick Launay. According to the Closing Time Songfacts, this remains a popular song at bars when they are ready to pack it up. There no mistaking the message: “You don’t have to go home, but you can’t stay here.”
The song was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Rock Song in 1999. It peaked at #1 on the Modern Rock Tracks and #25 on the UK singles chart.
The place that closes seems to be a pickup bar, noted by the lines:
One last call for alcohol
So finish your whiskey or beer
…
You don’t have to go home
But you can’t stay here
…
So gather up your jackets
Move it to the exits
I hope you have found a friend
However, the book So You Wanna Be a Rock & Roll Star (ISBN 0-7679-1470-8) by Semisonic’s drummer Jacob Slichter indicates that it is, instead, about being born: the place that is closing is the womb, and the mention of alcohol is a reference to pregnant women not drinking. This can be seen in the lines:
Time for you to go out
to the places you will be from
…
This room won’t be open
‘til your brothers or your sisters come
The song was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Rock Song in 1999. It peaked at #1 on the Modern Rock Tracks and #25 on the UK singles chart.
The place that closes seems to be a pickup bar, noted by the lines:
One last call for alcohol
So finish your whiskey or beer
…
You don’t have to go home
But you can’t stay here
…
So gather up your jackets
Move it to the exits
I hope you have found a friend
However, the book So You Wanna Be a Rock & Roll Star (ISBN 0-7679-1470-8) by Semisonic’s drummer Jacob Slichter indicates that it is, instead, about being born: the place that is closing is the womb, and the mention of alcohol is a reference to pregnant women not drinking. This can be seen in the lines:
Time for you to go out
to the places you will be from
…
This room won’t be open
‘til your brothers or your sisters come
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Shouts
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intenso5 wrote:
This has 90's written all over it.
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creativityhurts wrote:
Loved it in The Office.
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wmcfaul wrote:
true\/
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fuckyouty1 wrote:
THE best song of the 90's.
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cbas593 wrote:
@futchadoc was thinking the exact same thing haha
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futchadoc wrote:
Third Eye Blind!! JK... Friends With Benefits :)
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jasminder82 wrote:
I love this song so. fucking. much.
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chr1sty1 wrote:
I know who i want to take me home
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gabrielbiscoito wrote:
Stanley James Hudson liked this song.
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luisa20051972 wrote:
this track sounds peculiarly American to me
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the-cause wrote:
A classic of the '90's
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bridget1985 wrote:
HOW I MISS MY TEENAGE YEARS!!!
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kc_meag42 wrote:
Oh, this is sooo nineties.... (which is such a GOOD thing) ;D
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Sasha_Tyan wrote:
<3
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thenothinginme wrote:
Stanley's new favourite song :)
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intenso5 wrote:
awesome! the office <3
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dogsgetputdown wrote:
classic.
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prettymuchfifi wrote:
The Office makes me listen to this song again :D
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seangillen wrote:
WHAT A CLASSIC!!
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badcline wrote:
i hope you have found a friend ;)
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