50 Songs With Hidden Meanings

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Semisonic may have been a one-hit-wonder band, but they still made history when their song "Closing Time" was released. It became a fast favorite of bartenders and the bar crowd, but Dan Wilson had a little more than heading home after a long night of drinking on the mind when he wrote the song. 

"Closing Time"—Semisonic

In reality, "Closing Time" is a lot more a metaphor for birth, than for a literal closing time. In 2010, he revealed the origins of the song, saying, "My wife and I were expecting our first kid very soon after I wrote that song. I had birth on the brain, I was struck by what a funny pun it was to be bounced from the womb."

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