(Deck the halls with boughs of holly fa la la la la la la la la)
(Tis the season to be jolly fa la la la la la la la la)

Outside the carolers start to sing
I can’t describe the joy they bring
Cause joy is something they don’t bring me

My girlfriend is by my side
From the roof are hanging sickles of ice
Their whiny voices get irritating
It’s Christmas time again

So I stand with a dead smile on my face
Wondering how much of my time they’ll waste
Oh god I hate these Satan’s helpers

And then I guess I must’ve snaped
Because I grabbed a baseball bat
And made them all run for shelter

It’s Christmas time again
It’s time to be nice to the people you can’t stand all year
I’m growing tired of all this Christmas cheer
You people scare me
Please stay away from my home
If you don’t wanna get beat down
Just leave the presents and then leave me alone.

Well I guess it’s not cool to freak on Christmas Eve
Cause the cops came and arrested me
They had an unfair advantage

And even though the jail didn’t have a tree
Christmas came a night early
Causes a guy named Bubba unwrapped my package (hot damn)

It’s Christmas time again
It’s time to be nice to the people you can’t stand all year
I’m growing tired of all this Christmas cheer
You people scare me
Please stay away from my home
If you don’t wanna get beat down
Just leave the presents and then leave me alone.

I won’t be home
I won’t be home for Christmas
I won’t be home
I won’t be home for Christmas (please post my bail)
I won’t be home
I won’t be home for Christmas (please post my bail)
I won’t be home
I won’t be home for Christmas (please post my bail)
I won’t be home
I won’t be home for Christmas (please post my bail)
I won’t be home
I won’t be home for Christmas

Talk starts at 1:46

Translation:

Danique on the bass, Michael on the guitar and me on the drums

Faisa lead singer

And we also have a video about us playing “Dammit” for the first time without really rehearsing it. We were getting a bit bored of playing “whats my age again?” all the time so we decided to try this one and Danique shot this short video about it,

You can find the video here: http://www.twitvid.com/LTKIX

blink-182 is adding additional dates to the UK 2011 tour.

July 1-Birmingham-NIA
…July 4-Liverpool-Echo Arena
Pre-sale tickets for these two shows go up at 9:30am Wednesday: http://uktickets.blink182.com/

Support on ALL UK dates is You Me at Six.

sacrifice_for_life1
05-26-2004

I always took this song as being about Mark saying goodbye to the SoCal punk scene he’d grown up around and how it was really good to him, but he had different plans than to stay punk-rock forever.

“Words on the back of flyers [for shows], my clothes are in the dryer [touring]
It means nothing, nothing is changing
La familia is dead and gone [punk is dead and gone], the children grew up and moved on [I think Mark feels it's time to grow and move on from the skater punk kid from San Diego he'd always been used to]“

“Is it too much to ask for the things to work out this time?
I’m only asking for what is mine [staying punk wasn't for him]
I wanted everything [always wanting to be in a band and having everyone in the skate and punk scenes to know who you are], I got it and now I’m gonna
Throw it away, I’ll throw it away (yeah) [that's what happened but now he wants to move on]“

“Laughing at the bands we hate [in the scene], all the spots we used to skate
They’re still there, but we’ve gone our own ways
I know it’s for the best but sometimes I wonder
Will I ever have friends like you again? [looking back on the bittersweet memories of being a skate punk and even though he knows it's personally for the best, he was apart of something that he knows isn't like anything else. Maybe he's thinking about bands they used to tour with - NOFX, Pennywise - whom wanted to stay true to their roots and Mark respects that but that lifestyle just isn't for him.]“

“You’re gonna drown in the mess you make
Your self-inflicted hate
You turn your back on the friends you lose
When they don’t follow all your rules [the punk scene saying this to Mark, and all the rules are the "punk rock rules" which are more like unwritten laws (yes, that was a pun, if you didn't catch that)]

But people are what they wanna be
They’re not lemmings to the sea
Maybe it’s time you looked at yourself
And stop blaming life on someone else [and Mark says this to the punk scene. I think he's saying goodbye.]“

Call me crazy but the last two songs on Dude Ranch are “Lemmings” and “I’m Sorry”, the first sung by Mark and the latter by Tom, but I think Lemmings is Mark’s goodbye to the punk scene and I’m Sorry is Tom’s goodbye. You all probably think I’m looking WAY too far into this, and you know what? I probably am.

What do you think?
And this comment written by starfish182, I feel the same way and I totally agree.

“blink always seems to capture exactly what i’m feeling in certain situations. that’s why they’re my favorite band and always will be whether or not people think they’ve “sold out.” when you get down to it, their music is just plain AWESOME and it really connects with me. it doesn’t change a thing if people vote for them on TRL or whatever.”

What a great band it is.

Click here to read the whole lyrics.

Just got back from a long school day with unbearable coldness to cycle through when I saw what the mail brought me today. Stoked news, as it is finally official. After longing to see a blink182 concert this tells me it’ll happen next June. Of course you must be desperate to see a picture, I figured, well here it is:

As I mentioned in the previous post, we ordered our tickets last friday even before the tickets were on sale “offically”.

Thought via eventim.de the tickets were already on sale since last friday today it’s official so act quick. The tickets might go fast. Who’d wanna miss a blink concert anyways?
We bought our tickets last friday for 24 june in Essen, Germany!

WTF is Cyber Monday?

UPDATE 30 november 20:14:
“Today is the last day to take 20% off your merch order with code: greytuesday http://bit.ly/9WO3oG“

Just take off your pants and 20% off your merch!

This one is a guitar cover I made, bad quality, but it’s still good enough to listen to.

Jort’s drum cover of First Date:

We got kicked out by the free web host we were using, and all of the files are frozen. In time we will use this place to post images, video’s (our own cover songs?) and other things. It’ll differ from the site before the downtime because we currently don’t have the time to update on blink182 news. But, as most of you probably know there are very good blink182 fansite’s around.

Oh and, ARE YOU GUYS STOKED FOR THE NEW ALBUM AND TOUR?!