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	\| alt-text = Stay on My Side Tonight EP Cover		\| written =
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	\| written = ~~[[Jimmy Eat World]], [[Philip Edward Galdston]], [[Jon Lind]], [[Wendy Waldman]]~~		\| released =
	\| first_played= 2004-10-02 <ref>{{Citation\|url=https://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/jimmy-eat-world-5bd69b28.html?songid=43c28327\|title=Closer by Jimmy Eat World\|website=setlist.fm\|access-date=2021-02-12}}</ref> at The Majestic Ventura Theater, Ventura, CA, USA		\| length =
	\| released = 2005-09-13 (Digital) 2005-10-04 (CD/Vinyl)
	\| length = 5:50		}}
	\| label = [[Interscope Records]]		{{Song
	\| writer = [[Jimmy Eat World]]		\| name = Closer
	\| producer = [[Mark Trombino]], [[Jimmy Eat World]]		\| image = Stay on My Side Tonight.jpg
	}}Closer is the final ~~unreleased~~ song from the [[Stay on My Side Tonight]] five-track EP released in late 2005 after the release of [[Futures]]. ~~Descriped~~ by a reviewer as "a hooky, lightweight pop tune that harks back to the mood of [[Bleed American]]. <ref name="All Music" />		\| alt-text = Stay on My Side Tonight EP Cover
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			\| first_played = 2004-10-02 <ref>{{Citation\|url=https://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/jimmy-eat-world-5bd69b28.html?songid=43c28327\|title=Closer by Jimmy Eat World\|website=setlist.fm\|access-date=2021-02-12}}</ref> at The Majestic Ventura Theater, Ventura, CA, USA
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			\| length = 5:50
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			Closer is the final song from the [[Stay on My Side Tonight]] five-track EP released in late 2005 after the release of [[Futures]]. Described by a reviewer as "a hooky, lightweight pop tune that harks back to the mood of [[Bleed American]]. <ref name="All Music" />
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{{Song
| image = Stay on My Side Tonight.jpg
| alt-text = Stay on My Side Tonight EP Cover
| caption = Stay on My Side Tonight EP Cover
| written = [[Jimmy Eat World]], [[Philip Edward Galdston]], [[Jon Lind]], [[Wendy Waldman]]
| first_played= 2004-10-02 <ref>{{Citation|url=https://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/jimmy-eat-world-5bd69b28.html?songid=43c28327|title=Closer by Jimmy Eat World|website=setlist.fm|access-date=2021-02-12}}</ref> at The Majestic Ventura Theater, Ventura, CA, USA
| released = 2005-09-13 (Digital) 2005-10-04 (CD/Vinyl)
| length = 5:50
| label = [[Interscope Records]]
| writer = [[Jimmy Eat World]]
| producer = [[Mark Trombino]], [[Jimmy Eat World]]
}}Closer is the final unreleased song from the [[Stay on My Side Tonight]] five-track EP released in late 2005 after the release of [[Futures]]. Descriped by a reviewer as "a hooky, lightweight pop tune that harks back to the mood of [[Bleed American]]. <ref name="All Music" />
== Appears On ==

* [[Stay on My Side Tonight]]

== Lyrics ==
[Verse 1]

Every day, I get a little closer, dear

Will you love me, darling, when I get there?

I'll need sunshine, I'll need rest

Pour us whiskey, water, kiss

[Chorus]

"Remember me," she said, smiling

"Write my name somewhere safe."

Touch and taste

Fades with space

I'll never be who you'll dream

[Verse 2]

Every day, I try a little harder, dear

But those things you do, I don't wanna hear

You'll have yours, I'll have mine

No one guilty, no one right

[Chorus]

"Remember me," she said, smiling

"Write my name somewhere safe."

Touch and taste

Fades with space

I'll never be who you'll dream

[Bridge]

You'll have yours, I'll have mine

No one guilty tonight

You'll have yours, I'll have mine

No one guilty tonight

You'll have yours, I'll have mine

No one guilty tonight

[Verse 3]

Every day, I get a little closer, dear

Gonna drive fast all night 'til I get there

Not much time we can waste

Nothing pretty left to save

== Recording Details ==

Produced by: [[Mark Trombino]] & [[Jimmy Eat World]]

Recorded at: [[Unit 2]] (Tempe, Arizona); [[Ocean Studios]] (Burbank, California)

Release date: 2005

The original tracks from [[Stay on My Side Tonight]] were material from the [[Futures]] recording era that didn't make it onto Futures, including [[Disintegration]], Closer, and [[Over]]. <ref name="All Music">{{Citation|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/stay-on-my-side-tonight-mw0000642132|last=Sendra|first=Tim|title=Stay on My Side Tonight|website=All Music|access-date=2021-01-31|quote=Of the five tracks on Jimmy Eat World's 2005 EP Stay on My Side Tonight, three are songs the band worked on during the recording of Futures but decided didn't work on that record. It is hard to see why they were left off, as they are as good as -- if not better than -- some of the more pedestrian material that did make the cut. Maybe it is the slightly less polished sound, and maybe it is the fact that they aren't surrounded by 50 minutes of similar-sounding songs, but the three songs have more life and power than one might expect. "Disintegration" is an epic dirge that builds impressively and ends with the chanted vocals that give the EP its name; "Closer" is a hooky, lightweight pop tune that harks back to the mood of Bleed American; and "Over," while slightly less impressive than the other two, is a decent emo ballad. The other two tracks are interesting but not vital. They gamely cover Heatmiser's "Half Right" but can't quite find the magic that Elliott Smith was so effortlessly able to conjure up. The Styrofoam remix of Futures' "Drugs or Me" is OK, with the vocals glitched into near oblivion and the tune bouncing along on a bouncy, broken beat. So there's nothing earthshaking, but fans will want to grab it, and those who were put off by the slick surface of Futures might take some solace in the slightly stripped-down sound -- and hope that Jimmy Eat World continue to shed their studio sheen by the time the next album is recorded.
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== Reception ==
Released on [[Interscope Records]] Jimmy Eat World through digital downloads on 2005-09-13 and released on 12" Vinyl and CD on 2005-10-04. This is Jimmy Eat World's only release to feature the Parental Advisory label (due to the lyrics on [[Disintegration]])

The [[Stay on My Side Tonight]] EP peaked at 74 on the Australia ARIA charts on the week of 2005-11-21 <ref>{{Citation|url=http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/23790/20051220-0000/issue821.pdf|website=Pandora Archive|title=The ARIA Report: Week Commencing 21 November 2005|date=2005-12-20}}</ref>

The Vinyl was repressed in 2016 by [[Tiny Evil]] and [[Interscope Records]].

== Personnel ==

Jimmy Eat World

* [[Jim Adkins]] – vocals, guitar
* [[Rick Burch]] – bass guitar
* [[Zach Lind]] – drums, percussion
* [[Tom Linton]] – guitar,

Writing

* [[Philip Edward Galdston]]
* [[Jon Lind]]
* [[Wendy Waldman]]

Additional Personnel

* [[Mark Trombino]]

== Other Versions ==
The Song was played once in 2006-05-08 by [[Go Big Casino]] at the Paul V. Galvin Playhouse at Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ. <ref>{{Citation|url=https://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/jimmy-eat-world-5bd69b28.html?song=Closer|website=Setlist.fm|access-date=2021-01-31}}</ref>

== See Also ==

== References ==
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== External Links ==
[[Jimmy Eat Pod]] Episode Link: https://www.jimmyeatpod.com/002-closer/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stay_on_My_Side_Tonight

https://www.discogs.com/artist/82079-Jimmy-Eat-World?query=Closer

https://web.archive.org/web/20090616172055/http://music.ign.com/articles/664/664202p1.html

https://www.reddit.com/r/JimmyEatWorld/comments/elsifm/song_of_the_week_closer/
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