A popular song by Blink-182 describing a young boy’s suicide note. It’s a break from their usual light-hearted material, but the end is still life affirming as he decides not to go through with it.

“Adam” is used as a metaphor towards Mark’s depression he experienced while on tour with Blink-182. He stated:

Tom and Travis always had girlfriends waiting back home, so they had something to look forward to at the end of the tour. But I didn’t, so it was always like, I was lonely on tour, but then I got home and it didn’t matter because there was nothing there for me anyway.

“Adam’s Song” is also commonly attributed to the urban myth of Adam Krieger, a fictional character whose suicide letter is falsely portrayed as being the original letter that the band received before writing the song. This fake suicide letter, that is often posted online via places like tumblr, is fictitional and was originally written for a play.

The song’s title is also a reference to a skit from the cult classic HBO sketch show, “Mr. Show With Bob and David”, where in the sketch a band called Titanica writes a song called “Try Again (Adam’s Song)” with the intent of encouraging a fan to kill himself so they won’t be able to take him on tour after said fan tried to kill himself after hearing their song “Try Suicide.”