Turned out he was better suited for our friend anyway, and they ended up getting married, which I am so thankful for because they are one of the few couples I know who support each other through everything. We had the music thing in common, surely he’d be interested in me. (See? Even back then I was hopelessly drawn to musician types.) I turned up for a friend’s birthday party where I was supposed to meet this guy, but he only had eyes for another one of our friends. So much that one of them tried to set me up with a guy they knew who boasted he could play the song on guitar and he knew all the words too. It became so large in my ‘mythology’ (I’m being sarcastic that’s why mythology has single quotes around it) that my girlfriends all knew how much I loved that song. I pick up song lyrics quickly, and in a world where we generally only listened to regular radio on boomboxes and the internet had barely become a thing, ‘Semisonic’ quickly became one of those tunes that I had on repeat not only on my pathetic sound system at school, but also in my head. The song spoke to me instrumentally first, with the lyrics feeling right for the music, but its meaning didn’t really come to me until I started thinking about what songs I might want to analyse on Music in Notes in 2014. To say that ‘Closing Time’ by Semisonic was a song that defined my and my friends’ lives in school would be an understatement. And knew when to break out the air guitar during the solo. There is a small group of songs, definitely numbering less than 10, that I would say I recall sitting in the back of one of our friends’ cars, with the radio turned way up, and everyone knew all the words too. Where to find it: ‘Feeling Strangely Fine’ (1998, MCA)
Also, seeing that the writer has already explained the meaning of his song, this post is now closed to comments. Personally, I think it’s strange anyone would use anything related to a bar and drinking as a metaphor for the birth of a baby, but that’s artistic license. A woman with a science background (doubly weird, considering my main vocation) wrote a post a couple days ago, reminiscing about the birth of one of her children, tying this event in with Dan Wilson explaining in 2008 what the song is about.
#Semisonic closing time lyrics album update#
Update 18/01/15: this past weekend, this post was inexplicably barraged by comments, which I thought was a bit strange, given that I posted it on Music in Notes a year ago.
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