<P> The song is about people leaving a bar at closing time . Jacob Slichter has also indicated that the song was written by Wilson "in anticipation of fatherhood" and that it is about "being sent forth from the womb as if by a bouncer clearing out a bar ." </P> <P> Prior to the composition "Closing Time", Semisonic would usually end their concerts with the song "If I Run". However, the band eventually grew tired of playing this song every night and so Wilson set out to write a new song that they could play at the end of their set . Wilson's girlfriend was pregnant at the time and although Wilson did not set out consciously to write a song about giving birth, he has stated that "Part way into the writing of the song, I realized it was also about being born ." </P> <P> The music video was directed by Chris Applebaum . It features two continuous shots, running side by side on the screen . One side shows the band playing the song in a rehearsal space . The other side features a woman (played by Denise Franco) as the singer Dan Wilson's girlfriend . As the video progresses, Dan and his girlfriend switch sides of screen, as they attempt to meet up . At the end of the video, they both wind up at the same nightclub . However, they still end up missing each other by mere seconds and never meet . The "trick" of the video is that each shot was done as one long, continuous shot, with no cuts or editing, and therefore relies on proper timing to get the two sides of the video lined up properly . </P> <P> "Closing Time" was the final song in the polka medley "Polka Power!" on "Weird Al" Yankovic's 1999 album Running With Scissors . </P>

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