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Enema Of The State Meanings As explained by Tom DeLonge Dumpweed
That's all about
wishing you had a girl you could train. I remember writing the song thinking
about my dog. You can train the dog to sit, to be quiet, to be a good dog. But
you can't teach a girl to do anything. So I thought that'd be cool to write a
song about...If only you had a girl that you could train like a dog, that'd be
cool because then she could never make you mad, and she would never be a woman.
And women are just a whole different species. So that song was written [like]
'As if...' Don't
Leave Me Mark wrote that
song, so I can't really speak about what was going through his mind when he
wrote that one. But I can judge on the lyrics. He wrote that song when he didn't
even have a girlfriend, so I don't know who he's talking to. Sometimes you write
a relationship song that really dosen't have that much deep meaning. I think
it's just like that feeling when you're really in love with a girl, you're just
thinking 'Please, please, please don't stop liking me.' That's the gist of the
song. All the times you put your feelings into liking a girl, and she dosen't
like you at all, and she thinks you're a scumbag. So therfore that song's like a
prayer to a girl. Always hoping that you won't make the girl throw up forever,
always hoping that the girls will love you. We speak for all males, we write
songs hoping that girls will like us dirty rotten boys for a long time. Aliens
Exist As a hobby all I
ever do is read books and study material on UFOs and government conspiracies. So
I wrote a song about a guy talking about aliens as though he's had a weird
experience but nobody believes him, they think he's full of shit. But he's
directing his angst toward the government, because the government knows there's
something going on. But I'm one of those freaks that really believes that stuff
exists. I think if anybody out there does a little bit of research they will
find that they side with me. I think it's just a cool song coming from that
point of view. I read books about abductions, and there are hundreds of
thousands of people a year have an experience at night and they don't know what
it is, they just know what they saw and what they felt, but nobody believes
them. Going
Away To College That's a
super-romantic song. Mark wrote the song as though you are a boy leaving your
girlfriend, after years of school together. After high school, when you're
leaving to go to college, and what do you say to this girl that you've been in
love with for years, but now have to leave for years? I don't think it gets more
romantic than that. It's a sad song and it's really moving. It's one of my
favourite songs on the record, and the way the lyrics flow with the music, I
just think it's a really sad, emotional song. It's something a lot of people go
through. You probably date a girl in high school and grow up with her and learn
so much about each other and have so many growing pains and have to leave to go
to college. Do you stay with her, do you break up with her, do you have faith in
the relationship...? I don't know. That's a cool thing to write a song about. Dysentery
Gary I wrote that song
from a point of view. What if you were a guy who liked a girl, but the girl
likes a different guy? It's kinda like 'I hate that guy, but I'm not sure why I
hate him.' That's where it's supposed to come from. This guy is really
frustrated because this girl dosen't like him, so he's going to make fun of this
other guy. 'I can't think about any cruel things to say about him, but f%#k, I
just don't like him.' That's the attiude that song has. 'And this girl broke my
heart.' That'll make you feel a little bit better. Adam's
Song The story behind
that is Mark read a letter someone sent him as an email, that a kid wrote before
he committed suicide to his parents. We kind of got together and wrote this sad,
slow song. It came out sadder than we ever thought it would, which is good too.
Any song that moves you is good. Some people listen to it and go 'Wow, that's a
real bum-out of a song.' But it's one of those things, a story of a kid not
being happy in his life, crossed with us being really lonely on tour. At the end
of it there's a better way out, there are better things to do than kill
yourself. All
The Small Things 'All The Small
Things' is a song I wrote for my girlfriend while we were recording. I had to
write her a song, because I wrote songs about other girls, but I haven't written
one for her. So I was kinda getting some heat for that. Not really though,
because I love my girlfriend, so I was like, 'I need to write a rad song'
because I was scared - if the song came out bad, my girlfriend would be pissed.
So I kinda warned her that it would come out bad. Then it came out good, so I
was happy. But the lyrics are totally true in that song - 'She left me roses by
the stairs.' I remember I came home late one night about midnight and she left
roses on the stairs because I was working late every night in the studio. It's a
song for everyone to have sex by. The
Party Song That song is about
going to one of those parties and people getting drunk and being stupid and
girls trying to be the center of attention. It's just about girls trying too
hard, acting like dimwits. I think we've all been there, we've all been to those
parties where there's all these guys creeping out on three girls who just can't
get enough attention. Mutt 'Mutt' is a song I
wrote about my friend Benji Weatherly, a professional surfer who has sex all the
time. His name's Benji, but everyone nick named him Mutt, and it's just a song
about a guy and a girl who like to have sex and who don't really care about much
of anything else. I guess that dosen't really matter, as long as they're having
fun. It's not too deep. As long as it seems deep, that's all that matters. Wendy
Clear 'Wendy Clear' is a
song Mark wrote about this girl he had a crush on. He liked her but he really
couldn't date her because she was a very influential person in the music
industry. So them dating was a very tricky situation. 'I wish it didn't have to
be so bad,' is how the song goes. Anthem 'Anthem' is a song I wrote about having a party at your house, your parents coming home and finding out. I did that to my friend one time. I wanted my band to play - in high school - at my friend's house. His parents left only until midnight, but I still told the whole school that we were playing there. Thousands of people showed up, and then they all had to leave and we had to clean up the place before the parents came back at 12. It was so funny. The whole place chipped in with the clean up, but the cops showed up and his parents found out that way. So he ended up getting in to a lot of trouble. I couldn't believe that I invited all those people over and his parents were only away until midnight. The stereo was broken...there was a fight, there was blood everywhere. It was so funny.
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