Closing Time

Beautiful imagery.

But this is Semisonic with Closing Time.

Now, in spite of the lyrics and the imagery that is thrown up, this is not about being thrown out of a bar at the end of a night.

Nope.

Aerosmith, I Don't Want to Miss a Thing, from the movie Armageddon, which was also awesome.

Semisonic, Closing Time.

Third Eye Blind was rockin' with Jumper.

Fastball, The Way.

Aerosmith, I Don't Want to Miss a Thing, from the movie Armageddon, which was also awesome.

Semisonic, Closing Time.

Third Eye Blind was rockin' with Jumper.

Fastball, The Way.

there a sitcom that that song is played on like the opening line of or no

closing time? I don't know.

Probably.

I mean, I feel like that was one of those songs that was everywhere.

Like it's really hard to do something new without closing something old.

I think we forget that those things tend to go hand in hand.

Well, and, you know, they could have perhaps just as easily written a song called opening time, right? Instead of closing time, because you're right.

It is, you know, the one door closing and the other one opening.

It's more just yelling into a microphone.

Yes, and the, um, the song Closing Time that was the-

Oh, yeah

... yeah, << closing time >> Anyway.

[laughs]

That, that was a one hit wonder, wasn't it?

Dan Wilson is a Minneapolis-born and Los Angeles-based Grammy-winning artist, songwriter, and producer.

As the frontman of Semisonic, Wilson wrote the iconic songs Secret Smile and Closing Time, and in the past three decades he has written countless hits across genres, including co-writing Adele's Someone Like You, a favorite sad song on this podcast.

And possibly ever one of the saddest songs.

Ever.

And I feel like in, in that context also, there's a lot of things you can say that would bum somebody out or make- or, or discourage them, and I just have tried to teach myself not to say the-- not to at least do the no-brainer things, you know?

Yeah.

I was re-listening this morning and, um, "Closing Time," and I, I watched the video, too.

Yeah.

Carlo says...

Carlo? Favorite song in your working class when it's closing? What? Closing time?

Ah,

the second to the last song.

Because it's already closing.

Oh.

What particular song did you ask? Closing Time.

I think I saw that

closing.

Somebody just starts playing Closing Time.

Closing Time.

Welcome to MuggleCast, your weekly ride into the world of Harry Potter.

I'm Andrew.

My life is

closing.

Somebody just starts playing Closing Time.