The room where your brothers and sisters will come to is a nod to the idea that we’ll be reunited with the people we love in death or in the next lifel the friend that you’re hoped to find is a spiritual path to move onto.Īnother famous line from the song from this verse is "every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end." It’s a quote usually attributed to Seneca the Younger, though its veracity has been disputed. Death is a journey into a new beginning, be it reincarnation, Heaven, Valhalla, sinister murdering ghost, whatever your bag is. So gather up your jackets, and move it to the exitsĬlosing time/ Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end By the way, who is Dan Wilson’s favorite author? Tolkien.Ĭlosing time/ Time for you to go out to the places you will be fromĬlosing time/ This room won't be open 'til your brothers or your sisters come In Tolkien’s text the souls of men are gathered briefly in hall of silent reflection by the god Mandos, but then they travel beyond the world and even the gods know not where. who die, as opposed to that of elves, who do not. Tolkien’s The Silmarillion, where they discuss the fate of men. The choice beyond death is yours, and no one is assigned to any one fate (home being whatever you thought death would bring), but you are assigned to journey somewhere, wherever that may be. That’s what the famous line “you don’t have to go home but you can’t stay here” is alluding to. Every boy and every girl is talking about how all of us will eventually face death one day, and though you get a brief rest stop after your death, it’s only a respite before you have to move on to wherever you’re going in the afterlife. It’s basically a wake-up call at the end of your life, letting you know that you need to move on from life. And knowing that, yeah, that totally works, but it’s also a tremendous analogy for dying.Ĭlosing time/ Open all the doors and let you out into the worldĬlosing time/ Turn the lights up over every boy and every girlĬlosing time/ One last call for alcohol so finish your whiskey or beerĬlosing time/ You don't have to go home but you can't stay here It was on this probably 100th time hearing the tune that I also realized the whole thing is about death.įirst off, a disclaimer I know that Dan Wilson has told concertgoers before that the song is actually an analogy for him becoming a father, which he hid from his bandmates because he didn’t think they wanted to hear songs about his kid. You could probably put it out today with a little less ‘90s in the production and score a hit. It’s still a good track that’s aged well. God alone knows why I ever put it on there in the first place, but it had been a long time since I had heard it. I was driving along this week just minding my own business and doing my daddy errands when Semisonic’s “Closing Time” came on my iPod.
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