They think it’s about being bounced from a bar, but it’s about being bounced from the womb. And I hid it so well in plain view that millions and millions of people heard the song and bought the song and didn’t get it. So I did what any good sneak would do, and I hid my junior song, and I did it in plain view, which is where a good sneak knows is the best place to hide something. I knew that my bandmates… were feeling that dread. Wilson explains to his fellow alumni that when he and his wife were expecting their daughter, he didn’t want to write a cliché song to commemorate the occasion: instinctively know that as soon as junior arrives on the scene, the next thing that’s going to come is a song about junior, written by the singer, guaranteed to be that singer’s favorite song he or she ever wrote… It gets personal because when my wife Diane and I were expecting our one and only child, I knew this. The song was about a bar’s last call for the night, and what might ensue once the bar-goers left… right? Surprisingly, no.Įven more surprising is the song’s Pro-Life message.ĭan Wilson, the band’s lead singer, revealed the song’s meaning at his 25th reunion at his alma mater, Harvard. Remember the Grammy-winning ‘90s song, “Closing Time,” by Semisonic? Until recently, no one really knew what the song was actually about – although we all thought we knew.
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