The Way
In a tragic turn of events, the song “The Way” was influenced by a news story about an old couple who mysteriously disappeared while attending a Texas music festival. When the band was in the studio recording the single, they received word from the press that the couple had been discovered dead in their Oldsmobile at the bottom of a gorge, where they had been driving.
The Way
Closing Time
Semisonic front-man Dan Wilson anticipated the band’s sole big hit would have a second life in 2010, telling The Hollywood Reporter, “I really thought that that was the greatest destiny for ‘Closing Time,’ that it would be used by all the bartenders.” When Wilson wrote lyrics like “Time for you to go out to the locations you will be from,” he was focusing on the miracle of birth rather than sending late-night barflies to the curb. Wilson and his wife were expecting their first child shortly after writing the song, so it isn’t entirely surprising that this was the real origin!
Closing Time