Listen to this when
Closing Time
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end 🚪
Who it's for
Dan Wilson hid a song about new life inside a last-call anthem, and its best-known line, about every new beginning coming from some other beginning's end, turns an ending into a doorway.
Bittersweet, restless→Ready, hopeful
Feelings it meets
What it is
"Closing Time" is the 1998 lead single from Semisonic's second album, Feeling Strangely Fine, written by frontman Dan Wilson. On the surface it is about a bar's last call, but Wilson has said he wrote much of it while his partner was pregnant and realised partway through that it was also about being born and coming into the world. It reached No.
Where to find it
All major streaming services.
Before you start
Age: All ages
Marilla, isn’t it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
