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TIL "Closing Time" by Semisonic is not just about people leaving a bar at closing time. Drummer Jacob Slichter has also indicated that the song was written by Dan Wilson "in anticipation of fatherhood" & that it is about "being sent forth from the womb as if by a bouncer clearing out a bar."

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