What song did you love until you found out what it was about?

Or maybe you still love it, but now you have a different perspective.

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Closing time by Semisonic I thought it was about going home with someone after a night out at the bar. It’s about the lead singers child being born.
- Seriously? Well he could have made that more clear.
- Sort of, Dan Wilson said he had the idea while writing the song because his wife was pregnant so he slipped it in as a double entendre. It's like 90% bar closing with a couple lines alluding to being born: "Closing time, this room won't be open till your brothers or your sisters come".
  
  Did he sing about his wife’s womb as a pub that’s closing and expelling the drunkards?

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