Ep220: What you are missing from new beginnings, with Andrew Barrett Safety on Tap

The piece you might be missing as you try to build new things and all your efforts for making change, might actually be deliberately blowing things up.
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"Closing time, open all the doors and let you out into the world"
The song Closing Time by Semisonic is one of those classic tunes of my transition into adulthood.
"Closing time, one last call for alcohol
So, finish your whiskey or beer
Closing time, you don't have to go home
But you can't stay here"
After it was released in 1998 it was pretty common that this song was the very last song played in the bar or pub before the lights got turned back on and everyone had to leave.
"So gather up your jackets, move into the exits,
I hope you have found your friends
Closing time, every new beginning
comes from some other beginnings end"
It turns out that this anthem of the very late night party people had nothing to do with going out of drinking, or even going home.
The whole song is a metaphor for the birth of a child. Lead singer Dan Wilson was soon to become a father as he was writing this song, and the literal meaning of the last song in fact came to be a much deeper insight into the realities of getting bounced from the womb into the world.