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Closing Time is een nummer van de Amerikaanse rockband Semisonic uit 1998. Het is de eerste single van hun debuutalbum Feeling Strangely Fine.

Het nummer werd vooral een hit in de Verenigde Staten, waar het de 11e positie behaalde in de Billboard Hot 100. In Nederland haalde het slechts de 84e positie in de Single Top 100. Desondanks werd het er wel een radiohitje.

"Closing Time" is a song by American rock band Semisonic. It was released on March 10, 1998, as the lead single from their second studio album, Feeling Strangely Fine, and began to receive mainstream radio airplay on April 27, 1998. The ballad was written by Dan Wilson and produced by Nick Launay.

The single reached number one on the US Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart and entered the top 50 in Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. It was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Rock Song at the 41st Annual Grammy Awards in 1999. The song reappeared on the charts of three countries in 2011 after being featured in the movie Friends with Benefits and "Doomsday", an 8th season episode of the television sitcom The Office; it attained its highest chart peaks in Australia and Ireland during this period.

While the song is about people leaving a bar at closing time (also called last call), and widely interpreted as such, drummer Jacob Slichter has also indicated that the song was written by Wilson "in anticipation of fatherhood" and that it is about "being sent forth from the womb as if by a bouncer clearing out a bar".