fenderchik421 2006-04-26 21:54:47    

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This song is about their friend who killed himself.

anonymous 2006-05-16 15:29:47    

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One of the few songs that made me cry by listening it, it makes you think about suicide and puts you in "Adam's" position. This song is my favourite by blink 182

anonymous 2006-05-24 10:00:42    

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I believe this song is about an overdose of something to get you 'high'. Normally, one is in depressed when one change one's life style. Eg from quite to hectic life. In this case the the protagonist had to go on with his new found but pressured life and to sustain his stamina he had to take this 'thing' ( let you all guess )

rgds

anonymous 2006-05-24 14:17:12    

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What the HELLO?? The only way the suicide line in it could be made even more obvious would be to sing "YES, I WANT TO KILL MYSELF, SUCKERS" a couple times. It may show an alternative but suicide IS in there.

blink182chik 2006-06-07 22:31:31    

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OK, you guys are all dumb! This song's about a kid who was a BIG blink 182 fan who got bullied at school and ended up stabbing himself 15 times in the chest and his mum wrote to blink 182 and asked them to write a song and dedicate it to her son ADAM therefore the name is adam's song... glad we got that sorted out.

anonymous 2006-06-09 22:57:26    

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I believe that this song is about suicide, maybe not one person in particular, but every teen who has gone though thoughts of suicide, "I couldnt wait until I got home to pass the time in my room alone", I don't mean to offend anyone but most people who commit suicide become withdrawn, and spend time alone, which builds on thier depression and further induces the thoughts of killing ones self. And "Never conquered rarely came" to men this means, always looking at things other people have done and are doing. I think that this is direct to teens in general is due to the lyrics, that might sound stupid, but read the lyrics with this in mind. Almost all of the lines fit expect for "The dream is over, we survived" if anyone can fit this into my theroy say something.

blink182chik 2006-06-10 17:49:53    

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"The dream is over, I survived" is like some teens including myself have imagined killing themselves, but haven't actually gone through with it so it was like a dream that they wanted to come real but they survied and didn't go through with it which is good because there's no need for suicide. If your having a bad day just try get through it because there's ALWAYS tomorrow!

anonymous 2006-06-12 20:21:28    

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First of all...Can you people read? Becuase there is a string of like ten comments just saying the same thing.

Okay. We have determined yes, the song IS about suicide. We can stop repeating that. Also, we have determined it is AGAINST suicide. Please stop repeating that as well.

I personally have heard a few different people this song was about. The Columbine (spelling?) story from above, the e-mail story from above. Though the kid who stabbed himself 15 times is a new one. I am sure that there was a kid who did commit suicide while listening to this song. Which shows that he missed the ending of it. It is a sad, slow song, but (I may be a little off here) it does song like the song picks up at the end. When the whole "tomorrow holds such better days" part comes on.

The one line may be a Nirvana reference, but I can't see why.

Also, note how similar the last two verses are:

I never conquered, rarely came
16 just held such better days
Days when I still felt alive
We couldn't wait to get outside
The world was wide, too late to try
The tour was over we'd survived
I couldn't wait till I got home
To pass the time in my room alone

I never conquered, rarely came
Tomorrow holds such better days
Days when I can still feel alive
When I can't wait to get outside
The world is wide, the time goes by
The tour is over, I'd survived
I can't wait till I get home
To pass the time in my room alone


The point of this is to show that you can make it though and that it isn't hard. You only need to change the way you look at some things. This is best shown is "I can't/couldn't wait till I get home". By switching the one word, the tone changes.

anonymous 2006-06-22 04:27:00    

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Everyone who has said it's not about suicide are (a) idiots because they lyrics tell it as a depressed kid wanting to commit suicide, whether he does it or not doesn't matter,(b)The first comment was made by Tom you fools, and (c)Most songs mean different things to different people(I know I said it's about suicide, but that's not for me to say what it means to you) but for the writers it was about the loneliness of tour and this kid who felt there was no better way out then to commit suicide. Have fun fucking it all up people :D

anonymous 2006-07-06 05:03:01    

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This is a great song, and like any song it can mean a million things. I think that Adam is ALL of us. When we grow up and see the world for what it is and we watch all the dreams and hopes from when you where a kid slip through your hands, Nothing seems worth living for anymore and you get to the EDGE of wanting to let go SO BADLY, but you just don't. It's a song about holding on, and ADAM does, dispite the sadness.....adam holds on.....

anderson_699 2006-07-15 04:06:56    

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Its ovious this song is about a dude named Adam who comited suicide simply put lol nothing else needed.

anonymous 2006-07-17 01:29:24    

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Posted by Mr. Wacko wackson.

Ok listen up you weirdos, this is a song about a guy, who dosnt feel wanted, he has friends and family around him but it still dosnt fill an empty spot in him, so he starts spending time in his room alone and soon he feels that the outside world has nothing to offer. Thats why he never conquered and rarley came.

He never thought he would die alone because he had so many people around him, but something changed, maby when he turned 16, but it changed for the worse. He was always the first one to understand a joke, or turn a bat time into a good time. He traced the cord back to the wall, no wonder it was never plugged in at all, he retraced his life, and realised it was never right from the start. He was too depressed to go on, he said they'd be sorry when he was gone, he wanted people to know him, to love him, he thought after he had gon they would miss him, even if it ment taking his own life he would do it. He said he couldnt wait to get outside, the world was wide. That was when he was ahppy and he felt he had an importance. Then he said too late to try, beause he was too depressed to go outside and have fun so he stayed in his room alone. ("the tour was over we survived" was what blink were saying) give all my things to all my friends, that's all he has he dosnt want his family to have it, only his friends but yet he still wants his mum to know it wasnt her falt, it was his choise. You have to see the film clip to gt a better understanding of it, but in the end, after all the rocking and singing, it turns out blink is just another picture on the wall.... There are so many people in the world, we are as well known as a single picture among millions of other pictures. There are thousands of 'adams' out there, its easy to fall into a state of depression. Dont let our friends fall that far.

I know I just took ages explaining who adam is and what the song meens, but I am probably wrong, you are also probably wrong, but it dosnt matter, you can't talk about suicide liuke it just happens, its bad. Blink 182 showed us that if you want to know the meaning of this song, and say you understand what they are saying then you should stop talking about 'adam' as if he is a kid who killed himself. He symbolises other people! You could be an 'adam' some day, your friend could be an 'adam' I could be an 'adam' blink 182 told us what it feels like to be an 'adam' do you want to go through that?

Rock on blink 182........

anonymous 2006-08-07 15:59:17    

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Guitarist tom delonge: "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."


that's it , idiots. This song is so sad... : [

anonymous 2006-08-08 23:02:08    

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Ok this song is about a boy named Adam who went to Rancho Bernardo high school and he simply became depressed for what ever reasons (most likely the same reasons that your all slowly getting at) and in the end he commited suicide I'm not sure how the story got to blink but that's what the songs about the end is blink's way of 'lightening the mood' and letting everyone know there is an alternative to suicide.

anonymous 2006-10-17 06:46:14    

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People, stop repeating the same thing, because you all think your so smart that youve gotten the "hidden" meaning. This song is supposed to be obvious because it has a really important message.

Ps the song picks up at the end, hence the point moral of the whole song. Dont give up because life will get better.

budster90 2006-10-24 15:51:35    

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As most have pointed out, it's about suicide (regardless of whether or not the person actually went through with it. I was suicidal for a time when I was a teenager - the part of the song that resounds with me are the lyrics "remember the time I spilled the cup of apple juice out in the hall? Please tell mom this is not her fault" - when I was at the lowest point, ready to end it - I started getting flashbacks of stupid little incidents that I felt childish guilt over - spilling juice on the new couch; tracking dirt on the floor mom just cleane; etc. The final thought that kept me from going through with it was my love of my mom and knowng that she would blame herself - the thought of her crying afterwards and blaming herself was too much for me and forced me to suck it up and stick it out.

think_about_it72 2006-10-25 08:35:02    

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The use of the lines from come as you are by nirvana are obviously another reference to suicide as the lead singer of nirvana (kurt cobain) comitted suicide with the use of a shotgun.

Angelmisty 2006-11-17 16:35:32    

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It's about flipping suicide. One day Mark got a letter/email from a fan who committed suicide and this was the letter he left his parents. Mark also says "I hurried up I took my time" in tribune to the late Kurt Cobain R.I.P. He even says it on Chronicles.

anonymous 2006-11-30 17:21:36    

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This song is about suicide and the band being lonely on tour

anonymous 2006-11-30 17:22:22    

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yeah it's about both the kid commiting suicide mixed with the band's feelings about being lonely on tour