Closing Time<\/i>, by Semisonic, came out in 1998. I wouldn’t take notice of it until ten years later, as I drove my kids to their activities and it would play on the radio.<\/p>\n
While I wasn’t a fan of Closing Time<\/i>, it seemed a friendly song. Its premise is relatable enough, and it’s got some clever lyrics. I just think the chorus falls short, and I like a good chorus in a song.<\/p>\n
Over the past couple years, Closing Time<\/i> speaks to me more and more. I’m like that, though: often, something has to age 20 years before I look at it seriously.<\/p>\n
Closing Time<\/i> has some clever lyrics, to be sure. The line<\/p>\n \nYou don’t have to go home, but you can’t stay here\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n is legendary. Personally, I like the imperfect rhyme in<\/p>\n \nSo gather up your jackets, and move it to the exits\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n In addition, I appreciate the tender empathy in the line “I hope you have found a friend.”<\/p>\n The line “Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end” – I didn’t accept it at first. Believe it or not, I would often think about it, driving in the car, coming up with scenarios of new beginnings that happen from nowhere, with no simultaneous ending.<\/p>\n I’m not sure, even now, that when something begins, something else has to end. However, I understand that point of view.<\/p>\n To wrap up: while I don’t find Closing Time<\/i> a catchy song, it is a feel-good song, in a melancholy way, with some smart lyrics. <\/p>\n BTW: Dan Wilson wrote the song.<\/p>\n Source:<\/p>\n www.songfacts.com<\/a><\/p>\n