"It's a dirty, filthy song about snorting speed and getting blow jobs. It's pretty much a fact that "Semi-Charmed Life" is the best karaoke song of all time with its frantic tempo that can leave you breathlessly trying to keep up with the lyrics.īut you may not realize that song's pace actually reflects its narrative about the brutal cycle of highs and lows that accompany a drug addiction. So gather up your jackets, move it to the exitsĮvery new beginning comes from some other beginning’s endĮnd the tragedy of abortion by showing the world the unfiltered truth about its devastating impact on our mothers, our fathers, our families, our societies, our cultures, and most importantly, our children.Ĭall 80 or text HELPLINE to 313131 for immediate lifesaving support for you and your prenatal son or daughter."Semi-Charmed Life" is by Third Eye Blind. This room won’t be open till your brothers or your sisters come Time for you to go out to the places you will be from You don’t have to go home but you can’t stay here One last call for alcohol so finish your whiskey or beer Turn all of the lights on over every boy and every girl
Open all the doors and let you out into the world Listen to Wilson explain the real meaning behind each verse of the song, beginning about 4 ½ minutes into the video. They think it’s about being bounced from a bar, but it’s about being bounced from the womb.
And I hid it so well in plain view that millions and millions of people heard the song and bought the song and didn’t get it. So I did what any good sneak would do, and I hid my junior song, and I did it in plain view, which is where a good sneak knows is the best place to hide something.
I knew that my bandmates… were feeling that dread. Wilson explains to his fellow alumni that when he and his wife were expecting their daughter, he didn’t want to write a cliché song to commemorate the occasion: instinctively know that as soon as junior arrives on the scene, the next thing that’s going to come is a song about junior, written by the singer, guaranteed to be that singer’s favorite song he or she ever wrote… It gets personal because when my wife Diane and I were expecting our one and only child, I knew this. The song was about a bar’s last call for the night, and what might ensue once the bar-goers left… right? Surprisingly, no.Įven more surprising is the song’s Pro-Life message.ĭan Wilson, the band’s lead singer, revealed the song’s meaning at his 25th reunion at his alma mater, Harvard.
Remember the Grammy-winning ‘90s song, “Closing Time,” by Semisonic? Until recently, no one really knew what the song was actually about – although we all thought we knew.
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