Analysis of Closing Time song and video.

“Closing Time”- The bar is closing=go home goodbye, its over

“Open all the doors and let you out into the world”- time to go outside, into the world, perhaps leaving the bar to go do something real, or ending a chapter of your life and its time to go forth into the real world

“closing time”-repetition=important

“Turn all of the lights on over every boy and every girl”- turn on the lights could mean wake up and get ready to go, and every boy and girl= everyone in the bar or world

“one last call for alcohol so finish your whiskey or beer”- obviously closing time so last chance to get booze, or last chance to have fun and relax before the real world. Or last chance to grab a drink with the girl you want.

“you don’t have to go home but you can’t stay here”-the bar or school or parents don’t care what happens to you next, but you cant stay here. You have to act now, maybe get the girl and go home with her or get a job, but the easy time is over, DO SOMETHING

“I know who I want to take me home” (3X) – the girl that he wants to be with, he hopes he goes home with her from the bar, or maybe she comes and picks him up because she cares. But he wants her.

“Time for you to go out to the places you will be from”-time to make a new home(where you will be from) or (who you will be with) go to those places and start a new beginning, cause this part of life or relationship status is over. Go to a new home, although it won’t feel like it for a while, and neither will the new girl seem as right as the old one for a while.

“This room won’t open till your brothers or your sisters come/So gather up your jackets, move it to the exits/I hope you have found a friend”-Get your stuff(affairs in order, or your lady) and go forth! This place wont be ready until you do what you need to do and have established relationships(bros and sisters) and also the next generation of people to the “bar”. Hope you found a friend, either an actual friend to help you out later in life or have fun with after the bar. Or found your lady friend.

“Every new beginning comes from some other beginnings end”- your new chapter in life has to come at the expense of the old one, high school to college. Or you get the girl and you are finally moving on from your old girl, but you are happy with the new one. Or the more sad version which happens in the video, the guy doesn’t find the girl, therefore its “closing time” he gives up on her, but its bittersweet because “every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end” so that means because he gave up on this girl another one is right around the corner.

The music video has two camera shots the entire video and the timing of the video has to match up perfectly for it to work. Much the way the timing of the man and the woman in the video is focused on, they never quite get to meet each other, they always miss each other barely. This could be that the timing of their relationship was not right due to the man the woman or other circumstances. This relates to Friends with Benefits because the timing of the feelings in the fwb relationship between the two main characters is all wrong until the very end of the movie. TIMING.