"Closing time": songwriter Dan Wilson has said he wrote this about the birth of his child in a deliberately abstract way.
Zack
· 1 year ago
Heh heh. That's kinda cute.
Ted
· 1 year ago
Now I gotta run back a re-read the lyrics to spot to fatherhood references -- if there are any.
DwDunphy
· 1 year ago
Eeeew. Listen to the song again with the ObGyn staring down the empty baby chute.
Ted
· 1 year ago
I know this is a hypothetical/thought experiment, but TMI! TMI!
DwDunphy
· 1 year ago
But obstetrics is AWESOME!
magnolia7281
· 1 year ago
heh - when i graduated from high school, ten years ago this may (!!!), i favored "angels of the silences" by counting crows. not so much for the entire song, mind you, but for the end:
"i'm gone, i'm gone, i'm gone, i leave today i'm gone, i'm gone, i'm gone, take me away"
you get the idea. not that high school sucked for me or anything; i was just ready to get the hell out of alabama. :)
Ted
· 1 year ago
I had the honor of going to three different high schools, so when it came time to graduate, I really didn't get misty-eyed. Like you, I was ready to move on.
DwDunphy
· 1 year ago
So the Foo Fighters "I'm done, I'm done, On to the next one..." would have been more appropriate?
Ted
· 1 year ago
If there's a song called "Don't Kick My Ass (Because I'm the New Kid At School)," then I think we'd have a winner!
DwDunphy
· 1 year ago
There's talk in Phys Ed, it sounds so familiar Called Xenophobia, everybody's scared of you People you meet, they all wanna hurt you They're all up in arms just because you're someone new
Py Korry Come Lately The new kid in town Hold your breath in the swirly Or else you might drowwwwwwnnnn....
(From one who's ass was kicked many, many times!)
Kittie
· 1 year ago
Graduation day was played up like the most important day of my life. I think they were trying to scare me, or play some kind of practical joke (guess what comes next! At least four tedious years of college, or McDonald's!), or attempt to instill guilt in me for not feeling at all nostalgic about high school. Good God, high school. I have the suspicion most people with the gall to be nostalgic about high school is either delusional or a grown-up bully.
Ted
· 1 year ago
I wasn't one of 'em, but I think for the popular kids, high school was a high point of their lives. For me, it was the last 2 years of college. When it came time to graduate, I had some feelings of loss -- mostly for the experiences I had with friends.
Kittie
· 1 year ago
Four years of that... I still can't construct sentences.
Kittie
· 1 year ago
Here's one - "Pulling the Plug on the Party" by Electric 6.
Malchus
· 1 year ago
The first song in your mix also seems appropriate coming on the same day gay couples are legally allowed to wed in California.
Ted
· 1 year ago
Some friends of mine got married in San Francisco in 2004 when they first started doing same gender weddings at city hall. But knowing them, they probably would have chosen something to make everyone chuckle -- like "Hell" by Squirrel Nut Zippers
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"i'm gone, i'm gone, i'm gone, i leave today
i'm gone, i'm gone, i'm gone, take me away"
you get the idea. not that high school sucked for me or anything; i was just ready to get the hell out of alabama. :)
Called Xenophobia, everybody's scared of you
People you meet, they all wanna hurt you
They're all up in arms just because you're someone new
Py Korry Come Lately
The new kid in town
Hold your breath in the swirly
Or else you might drowwwwwwnnnn....
(From one who's ass was kicked many, many times!)
Good God, high school. I have the suspicion most people with the gall to be nostalgic about high school is either delusional or a grown-up bully.