Closing Time

Written by Dan Wilson and released on March 10, 1998, as the lead single from Semisonic's Feeling Strangely Fine, this song reached number one on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart. While widely interpreted as being about people leaving a bar at closing time, drummer Jacob Slichter indicated the song was written by Wilson "in anticipation of fatherhood" and is about "being sent forth from the womb as if by a bouncer clearing out a bar."