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(SOUNDBITE OF BLINK-182 SONG, "ALL THE SMALL THINGS")

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST:

In 1999, the pop-punk band Blink-182 had a certain reputation. For starters, they named their big album that year "Enema Of The State."

(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "ALL THE SMALL THINGS")

BLINK-182: (Singing) All the small things, true care truth brings.

SHAPIRO: Their music videos involved streaking1, and their stage banter2 included a lot of toilet humor. But the third single off the album was different. It was a song that dealt with depression, loneliness and, at its very core, suicide. It's called "Adam's Song," and it became a banner for the band's young fans to process feelings that they maybe didn't understand until they got older. NPR's Andrew Limbong has this for our series American Anthem3.

ANDREW LIMBONG, BYLINE4: Some of the songs we've billed as American anthems5 are huge, undeniable even - war songs, protest songs, the national anthem. But think smaller for a second.

(SOUNDBITE OF BLINK-182 SONG, "ADAM'S SONG")

LIMBONG: I'm not talking about Super Bowl stages or national rallies. This is about you alone in your room. And the only thing there for you is a song, one that begins with something as blunt as I never thought I'd die alone.

(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "ADAM'S SONG")

BLINK-182: (Singing) I never thought I'd die alone. I laughed the loudest. Who'd have known? I trace the cord back to the wall. No wonder it was never plugged in at all.

LIMBONG: "Adam's Song" was there for TJ Kennedy. He's a 28-year-old second grade teacher who I found through a Blink-182 fan message board. "Adam's Song" means so much to him that...

T J KENNEDY: I got my first paycheck, and I'm like, all right, screw it. I'm going to get a tattoo6.

LIMBONG: Of the first notes of the song on a staff.

KENNEDY: Those opening - like, the (vocalizing), yeah.

(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "ADAM'S SONG")

BLINK-182: (Singing) I never thought I'd die alone. Another six months, I'll be unknown. Give all my things to all my friends. You'll never step foot in my room again.

LIMBONG: Those lyrics8 didn't register with Kennedy as a kid. Mostly he just listened to "Enema Of The State" while playing some Nintendo 64. But as he got older, the words started to cut through. He says he went through a period of deep depression and in college attempted suicide.

(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "ADAM'S SONG")

BLINK-182: (Singing) I'm too depressed9 to go on. You'll be sorry when I'm gone.

KENNEDY: You'll be sorry when I'm gone I think is just a giant F-you to people because no one really takes mental illness as serious as they would if you, you know, broke a bone or had the flu or something. A lot of people are just like, oh, you know, just be happy, or think positive. But until they experience it, until they go through it, they don't understand how hard that can actually be for a person.

LIMBONG: In a note he wrote at the time, he referenced the lyric7 give all my things to all my friends, and he had a friend in mind.

KENNEDY: I just wanted him to have the things that meant the most in the world to me, which were my instruments, because that's how I looked at our friendship. Like, it was such a great and beautiful thing, and I just wanted to make sure he always had a piece of that even if I wasn't around.

LIMBONG: Does he know?

KENNEDY: No, I haven't told him (laughter).

LIMBONG: Talking about this sort of thing isn't easy, not even for the person who wrote the song.

MARK HOPPUS: When I get depressed, I tend to turn inward and kind of shut off from the outside world, much to my own detriment10.

LIMBONG: Blink-182's Mark Hoppus wrote "Adam's Song" when he was at a professional high but a personal low.

HOPPUS: You know, it feels ridiculous saying, our band's doing really good, but personally I'm just not feeling like I'm connecting. And I don't know. It just - it felt like I had too much good fortune to complain about anything.

LIMBONG: So even though Hoppus couldn't talk about his feelings to his bandmates or manager or friends, he had his fans.

HOPPUS: I feel like they are helping11 me share the difficult time that I went through. So I'm talking about my personal darkest times, and they're talking about their personal darkest times. And we're coming together about this song that kind of helped us both get through that.

(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "ADAM'S SONG")

BLINK-182: (Singing) I never conquered, rarely came. Sixteen just held such better days, days when I still felt alive. We couldn't wait to get outside.

LIMBONG: "Adam's Song" became an anthem of sorts for Brittney Berlin. She's a wellness blogger who lives in Brooklyn who's coped with suicide herself. She's suffered depression, attempted to take her own life and then had to deal with the suicide of a friend who happened to be named Adam. And the song helped.

BRITTNEY BERLIN: It connected me with Adam. And it also just, like, helped me feel everything. Like, you feel so many different emotions all at once. And then you feel bad for some of those emotions because some of them are really, really just ugly emotions. But that song just kind of - I felt like it was for Adam. I mean, it was. It's him.

LIMBONG: Everyone relates to this song in their own way, says Liz Friedlander. She directed the music video for "Adam's Song," which was a hit on MTV. Her vision for the video wasn't to just focus on the musicians but the people around them and what they might be going through - the couple having a fight backstage, the person on the payphone by the gas station.

LIZ FRIEDLANDER: We never know what's going on in other people's lives. In people who we have relationships with we don't always know what's going on, but also in the people who you sit next to at a concert or pass on the street or these humans that you brush up against. We all are dealing12 with our own stuff. And sometimes we don't look, and we don't see, and so then we don't notice.

LIMBONG: The song got a different kind of attention in the year 2000 when national news media covered the death of Columbine High School student Greg Barnes. A year after the mass shooting at his school, he took his own life. The stories at the time reported that "Adam's Song" was playing on repeat when his parents found him. But pinning suicide to one event or one cause oversimplifies a very complex issue. And "Adam's Song" certainly isn't just one thing to its fans. When I posted on that Blink-182 message board, I got stories about bullying13, breakups, all sorts of issues. But what nearly everyone mentioned was the turn the song takes after the bridge.

HOPPUS: The bridge and the last chorus is the redemption of the song.

LIMBONG: Blink-182's Mark Hoppus stops singing about dying alone and how great being 16 was and starts singing about being alive tomorrow.

(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "ADAM'S SONG")

BLINK-182: (Singing) I never conquered, rarely came. Tomorrow holds such better days.

LIMBONG: There was a period of time when Blink-182 didn't play "Adam's Song" in concert. A friend of theirs, Adam Goldstein, better known as DJ AM, had died from an overdose. Hoppus says he couldn't bring himself to sing it. Now, though, after nearly a decade, the band is playing it again.

HOPPUS: I think of it more now as almost a celebration of hardships gone through and friends lost.

LIMBONG: And it's a celebration that means a lot to a lot of people. Sure, it's not an anthem in the usual sense of the word. It's more of a reminder14. Remember that tattoo that TJ Kennedy was going to get at the beginning of the story? He never actually got it. The shop was too busy to take walk-ins. Now he's working with the artist to make an even better one. As the song says, tomorrow holds such better days. Andrew Limbong, NPR News.

(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "ADAM'S SONG")

BLINK-182: (Singing) I never conquered, rarely came. Tomorrow holds such better days, days when I could still feel alive, when I can't wait to get outside.

SHAPIRO: And if you or someone you know may be considering suicide, help is available online at suicidepreventionlifeline.org.

(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "ADAM'S SONG")

BLINK-182: (Singing) Days when I could still feel alive, when I can't wait to get outside. The world is wide. The time goes by.


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1 streaking 318ae71f4156ab9482b7b884f6934612     
n.裸奔(指在公共场所裸体飞跑)v.快速移动( streak的现在分词 );使布满条纹
参考例句:
  • Their only thought was of the fiery harbingers of death streaking through the sky above them. 那个不断地在空中飞翔的死的恐怖把一切别的感觉都赶走了。 来自汉英文学 - 家(1-26) - 家(1-26)
  • Streaking is one of the oldest tricks in the book. 裸奔是有书面记载的最古老的玩笑之一。 来自互联网
2 banter muwzE     
n.嘲弄,戏谑;v.取笑,逗弄,开玩笑
参考例句:
  • The actress exchanged banter with reporters.女演员与记者相互开玩笑。
  • She engages in friendly banter with her customers.她常和顾客逗乐。
3 anthem vMRyj     
n.圣歌,赞美诗,颂歌
参考例句:
  • All those present were standing solemnly when the national anthem was played.奏国歌时全场肃立。
  • As he stood on the winner's rostrum,he sang the words of the national anthem.他站在冠军领奖台上,唱起了国歌。
4 byline sSXyQ     
n.署名;v.署名
参考例句:
  • His byline was absent as well.他的署名也不见了。
  • We wish to thank the author of this article which carries no byline.我们要感谢这篇文章的那位没有署名的作者。
5 anthems e63efc85a8384929b8067b0278b921b5     
n.赞美诗( anthem的名词复数 );圣歌;赞歌;颂歌
参考例句:
  • They usually play the national anthems of the teams at the beginning of a big match. 在大型赛事开始前,他们通常演奏参赛国国歌。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Rise please, rise for the anthems of & . 请全体起立,奏和两国国歌。 来自互联网
6 tattoo LIDzk     
n.纹身,(皮肤上的)刺花纹;vt.刺花纹于
参考例句:
  • I've decided to get my tattoo removed.我已经决定去掉我身上的纹身。
  • He had a tattoo on the back of his hand.他手背上刺有花纹。
7 lyric R8RzA     
n.抒情诗,歌词;adj.抒情的
参考例句:
  • This is a good example of Shelley's lyric poetry.这首诗是雪莱抒情诗的范例。
  • His earlier work announced a lyric talent of the first order.他的早期作品显露了一流的抒情才华。
8 lyrics ko5zoz     
n.歌词
参考例句:
  • music and lyrics by Rodgers and Hart 由罗杰斯和哈特作词作曲
  • The book contains lyrics and guitar tablatures for over 100 songs. 这本书有100多首歌的歌词和吉他奏法谱。
9 depressed xu8zp9     
adj.沮丧的,抑郁的,不景气的,萧条的
参考例句:
  • When he was depressed,he felt utterly divorced from reality.他心情沮丧时就感到完全脱离了现实。
  • His mother was depressed by the sad news.这个坏消息使他的母亲意志消沉。
10 detriment zlHzx     
n.损害;损害物,造成损害的根源
参考例句:
  • Smoking is a detriment to one's health.吸烟危害健康。
  • His lack of education is a serious detriment to his career.他的未受教育对他的事业是一种严重的妨碍。
11 helping 2rGzDc     
n.食物的一份&adj.帮助人的,辅助的
参考例句:
  • The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
  • By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。
12 dealing NvjzWP     
n.经商方法,待人态度
参考例句:
  • This store has an excellent reputation for fair dealing.该商店因买卖公道而享有极高的声誉。
  • His fair dealing earned our confidence.他的诚实的行为获得我们的信任。
13 bullying f23dd48b95ce083d3774838a76074f5f     
v.恐吓,威逼( bully的现在分词 );豪;跋扈
参考例句:
  • Many cases of bullying go unreported . 很多恐吓案件都没有人告发。
  • All cases of bullying will be severely dealt with. 所有以大欺小的情况都将受到严肃处理。 来自《简明英汉词典》
14 reminder WkzzTb     
n.提醒物,纪念品;暗示,提示
参考例句:
  • I have had another reminder from the library.我又收到图书馆的催还单。
  • It always took a final reminder to get her to pay her share of the rent.总是得发给她一份最后催缴通知,她才付应该交的房租。

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