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This is actually for a venue that has to stop serving alcohol at 2am but is open until 3am so closing time wouldn't work in this situation.
I actually use the Ferris Bueller at the actual closing time.
FYI "Closing Time" is actually a metaphor for Child Birth. The artist wrote it when his wife was pregnant.
"This song has a very literal meaning - being asked to leave a bar - but it goes much deeper than that. Semisonic lead singer Dan Wilson wrote the song when his wife was pregnant with their first child, which turned out to be a daughter named Coco. "It's all about being born and coming into the world, seeing the bright lights, cutting the cord, opening up into something deeper and more universal," Wilson told Mojo.
Shortly before recording was scheduled to begin, Wilson's wife experienced complications with her pregnancy, and Coco was born three months premature weighing just 11 ounces. Wilson's bandmates offered to postpone the sessions, but he asked to move forward with them, since there was very little he could do in the hospital. This song took on a new meaning with the line "I know who I want to take me home," as Wilson was looking forward to the day he could bring Coco home.
That day finally came nearly a year after Coco was born; she left the hospital in February, 1998 on the same day "Closing Time" was released as a single. According to Wilson, the ambulance driver who transported them home asked if he was the same Dan Wilson from the band. That's when the full gravity of the song hit him, and he realized how much Coco influenced it."
I remember chuckling when I heard the real meaning.. kinda like people who talk about bride's requesting The Police "Every Breath You Take" without understanding the song is about a stalker hehe.
ANYWAY - I took have user Ferris Bueller, but depending on where it is, there are some usual old anthemic type stuff people love to sing along to that can be good for final songs as well. Or something so over the top cheesy that we'd throw the lights on and let it rip as people stumbled/danced their way out the door (think MMMBop or Wannabe or even some NYSNC).
