Adam's song?!
Question: Did a boy name Adam Krieger really inspire Blink-182 "adam song" and was that suicide note real?
Answers: Did a boy name Adam Krieger really inspire Blink-182 "adam song" and was that suicide note real?
hm; theres a section about it on wikipedia....
something about an email from a fan; check it out:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam%27s_...
According to band member Tom DeLonge:
“ The story behind [the song] is Mark read a letter someone sent him as an email, that a kid wrote to his parents before he committed suicide. 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.
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Travis and Mark in the Adam's Song music video.The title of the song comes from a sketch from Mr. Show, in which a young fan of the band Titannica (named Adam) tries to kill himself after listening to their songs. The band invites him on tour with them, but they soon find out that his body is now hideously deformed. Titannica created the song called "Adam's Song" which encourages him to "try again".[citation needed]
The line "I took my time, I hurried up / The choice was mine, I didn't think enough" is a reference to the song "Come as You Are" by Nirvana, in which the line is "Take your time, hurry up / The choice is yours, don't be late." .
The song caused a stir in 2000 when it was set to replay indefinitely on a stereo as 17-year-old Greg Barnes hung himself in the garage of his family's home.[2]