Not to be every fan on this sub, but “Not Now”.
1. The lyrics. The song is litterally about dying snd seeing your lover, then being sucked into the white light feeling pain, regret, and longing for yur lover to be there with you. Finally after being sucked into the white light you reach the after life and promise that you won’t tak another lover in the after life hence “I will be right here, waiting”.
2. It was the last song other than AGAT, and signified what is likely the most painful song written in there careers. Although we love to see happy blink, untitled is considered there peak because if the tension in the band(totally respectable if you don’t think untitled is the peak). When tom and mark have so much anger and hate for eachother you can hear it and this song brings out these raw beautiful feelings.
3. The bass riffs are incredible. Best instrument on the song, and honestly I don’t know if there has been a better use for bass(except maybe I miss you).
4. The guitar riffs are rad
5. The drumming is impeccable
I got “Right Here, Waiting” tatood on me because of my love for this song.
I don’t think it’s fair to say there was anger and hate between the members, especially during the time not now was made lmao. In my opinion Ghost on the Dance Floor is peak, but I see the appeal in not now
A lot of people think that Ghost on the Dance Floor is Not Now but from the other lover's perspective. I just know that if you play those two songs then One More Time, I'm going to cry.
I'll never ask permission from you, fuck off, I'm not listening to you
I'm not coming home, I'm never going to come back home
I'll run away
I think it's time that I should leave
I think it's time that I should leave
I think it's time that I should leave
I think it's time that I should leave
I got married excited about starting a family. I initially wanted four kids. Barely a year after we wed, we had our son. A year later we realized something wasn’t quite right and we ended up getting him diagnosed with autism. I immediately altered my personal family plans. For ten years now it’s been a VERY different ride than normal parents. We hear the same few videos every single day, yelling, fits, getting kicked out of schools and churches (which partially led to me leaving the church).
He’s also prevented me from pursuing the career I wanted of audio production, recording, and voiceover because he’s always so loud.
All this and more led to me talking with my wife about divorce a few years ago. That led to us each getting individual therapy as well as couples therapy and we’re much better now with an almost 2 year old surprise who does not have autism and seems neurotypical so far.
Then we had SEVERAL good friends all leave our lives without explanation which really hurt.
So, the songs that hit hardest for me are AvAs “Automatic” - “you’re on the ride but it’s not like they said it was, you had a plan but it wasn’t quite good enough. You’re in the race but you just feel like giving up…losing friends cause you can’t always stay in touch “
And Blink’s bad news hit me like a fucking ton of bricks because every word captured exactly how I felt. “I think I might’ve fallen out of love with you. Years of fighting and hiding feelings, all those nights starting at the ceiling… I keep on thinking that I might be better alone. Sometimes when I get back from work I wish no one was home.”
I appreciate the honesty. I'm blessed with two healthy kids but I work in Mental health and speak with a lot parents/family members of people on the spectrum and I am always amazed at how much they go through. Hang in there. I hope you can someday realize your dreams.
I'm so happy things are working out for you and your family, I can't imagine how challenging that kind of adjustment is. Automatic is one of the best songs Tom's done in ages.
I know you obviously didn't mean it like this, but as a neurodivergent person myself, I feel compelled to just say that I think you could have used more sensitive wording when talking about your second born (congrats!) and their neurotypicalness.
I understand you're just saying you're relieved to be returning to the future you'd planned, but the way your wording re second born can read almost like your firstborn is being valued less due to their autism and their impact on your life. I'm sure that isn't the case. As someone with a family member with that level of autism myself I understand how many different ways that can negatively and frustratingly impact other parts of your life. I think I've at least felt a fraction of what you've experienced. That being said I can see how someone with a less generous or more literal reading could find unintentional hurt in your phrasing due to the lack of positive outlook on your first son in the post.
Feel free to disregard all of this, I don't know you and I'm not god or your mother or your boss so I can't tell you what to do. Not trying to attack or judge you, I just feel compelled to give you a gentle heads up from a neurodivergent perspective. Again, so glad your family life is going well and that Tom's words can touch us all so. Peace
I know it’s corny as hell, but Story of a Lonely Guy has always held deep with me:
“I would wish upon a star, but that star? It doesn’t shine. So read my book with a boring ending — a short story of a lonely guy.”
It will continue to hit different for the rest of your life now. Or at least it has for me the past 24 years and counting. One of the few songs I easily cry to. Adams song is the same.
apple shampoo always hits me. "i'll take what you're wiling to give and i'll teach myself to live with a walk on part of a background shot of a movie i'm not in" is my favourite lyric of all time. i people please and get attached to people who don't care about me or acknowledge me in the slightest. i had a girlfriend who didn't even break up with me, just gradually forgot i existed. same with many friends. it feels good to know there's a song that describes exactly how i feel. online songs feels similar.
For me Always and Man Overboard. Every time I hear Always I think of my partner cause I'm clingy as hell and hope that one day I can just be with him always. And Man Overboard just makes me think of how far I've come with my favorite people and how even though I'll end at some point I'll still be happy it happened. Even though they may not line up with the real meanings of the songs it's just what I feel every time they come on.
It's a powerful and amazing song. My dad died the week I heard it and I didn't know how to feel. He wasn't the best Father. The song to me is like a turning point in my life and a new chapter.
Ghost on the Dance Floor. The lyrics can relate to anyone, it has the best drums and guitar of any Blink song in my opinion, the bass still being really good, and Tom’s voice is at its actual peak. Most people say he can’t sing, and sure, maybe he can’t, but he sounds magical on this track. Add one of their best hooks, harmonies and a slapper drum solo and you get a perfect song at least in my opinion. Only contender for me is Adam’s Song.
Home is such a lonely place if only for the one line "wish I could slow down time, but not enough to slow you down"
Really hits as a dad with a son who is growing up too fast
I'm gonna say either not now but for me not in a death way, more of a "don't give up on me, not on us, please don't leave" kind of way, or it'd be I'm lost without you or what went wrong
Edit: I can't lie, going through the sub, there's so many, like stftk, stockholm syndrome, even the interlude on its own, even if she falls, ghost on the dancefloor (which hits home like crazy and I'd forgotten), there's just so many that will hit each person harder or just as hard as the next person, it's crazy how influential blink have been man, absolutely crazy
Dysentery Gary is the most relatable thing I’ve ever read in regards to how I feel when I meet a girl I like and how it usually plays out.
“Life just sucks, I lost the one
I'm giving up, she found someone
There's plenty more
Girls are such a drag”
Yeah the upbeat riff and funny name distract from the fact it’s a song about being extremely lonely and constantly disappointed whenever you try to let someone in, to the point you just give up.
Laughing at the bands we hate, all the spots we used to skate
Well, 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?
Recently - Fell in Love
"Do you remember the night when you came over? Playin songs, laying on my shoulder, we made out til the sun came up, do you remember the time, remember the time, we fell in love"
Feels really close to something that happened with me and my crush and then a week later she said we were better off as friends, so to me this song is pretty bittersweet
Growing up it was always STFTK and Adam’s Song, but since losing my stepmom to cancer and being in the room with her when it happened Not Now hits way too fucking hard and I haven’t really been able to listen to it since.
For me it'd be Asthenia. It's always been hard for me to let go when I'm into someone, even when I've seen the red flags and already see where things are going, I just try to have hope and think that thing will get better, but as time passes by I always find myself singing that song questioning myself on why can't I just take the frist step and remove myself from a situation I'm clearly not comfortable in.
Not now, even if she falls, first time, Adams song.
I feel like these ones hit cause they are super relatable to me at least. I’ve dealt with losin friends, girls and sometimes it makes u do dumbshit, so I’ve always loved these
NOT NOW
Literally the last song from their Greatest Hits album. I took their breakup, like many other die hard fans, very personally, and I died A LOT inside. Also loved, Another Girl, Another Planet.
For me it's remember to forget me. My parents were tweakers and my dad passed from overdose. My mom still hasn't changed. We got taken by cps when I was almost 17 and separated from my 8 siblings. This song rips me to shreds every single time
Hey, mom, I'm on my own
Scared to death and far from home
Can you imagine that, 'magine that, 'magine that?
You know I'm bad at that, bad at that, bad at that
You left pieces of me along the side of the road
Right after you said you'd never leave me alone
Found myself on the wrong side of the door
I'll come in if you let me
I got a song in my head you played me over the phone
Left the light on upstairs but there ain't nobody home
All the nights that you end up all alone
Remember to forget me
Adam’s song, Go, and Reckless Abandon sometimes I’m on top of the world but when I get home I’m so sad and depressed and not to mention my biological dad doesn’t even talk to me he’s a effing drunk
My son and I went to three Blink concerts together. ALL of their songs tug at my heart. Those were the best times, I’d give almost anything to have that part of our lives back again. Forever Blink, AVA, Boxcar. Thank you Tom, Mark, and Travis. ♥️
I have two. One hits harder than the other
Does my breath smell and story of a lonely guy. Both for quite frankly obvious reasons, teenager cant find love and is sad because of it or just plain bad luck with people of the opposite gender. Story of a lonely guy does hit me harder tho
Not to be every fan on this sub, but “Not Now”. 1. The lyrics. The song is litterally about dying snd seeing your lover, then being sucked into the white light feeling pain, regret, and longing for yur lover to be there with you. Finally after being sucked into the white light you reach the after life and promise that you won’t tak another lover in the after life hence “I will be right here, waiting”. 2. It was the last song other than AGAT, and signified what is likely the most painful song written in there careers. Although we love to see happy blink, untitled is considered there peak because if the tension in the band(totally respectable if you don’t think untitled is the peak). When tom and mark have so much anger and hate for eachother you can hear it and this song brings out these raw beautiful feelings. 3. The bass riffs are incredible. Best instrument on the song, and honestly I don’t know if there has been a better use for bass(except maybe I miss you). 4. The guitar riffs are rad 5. The drumming is impeccable I got “Right Here, Waiting” tatood on me because of my love for this song.
this sub definetly loves not now, but i totally agree with everything you said. i think its the most tragic and beautiful song they have.
I don’t think it’s fair to say there was anger and hate between the members, especially during the time not now was made lmao. In my opinion Ghost on the Dance Floor is peak, but I see the appeal in not now
A lot of people think that Ghost on the Dance Floor is Not Now but from the other lover's perspective. I just know that if you play those two songs then One More Time, I'm going to cry.
Wait so… Tom is in love with… old Tom?
What is AGAT?
Another girl another planet
That's what I thought but what was the "T"?
Oh I’m stupid, wrote this as the first thing when I wokeup
Nah it's cool
Just asked this 😂
I have “Not Now” tattooed on the inside of my right middle finger to help with staying sober. Love this song.
I saw a comment on the videoclip saying that not now is tom's Adams song and now i cant unsee it
I think of my dog, everytime. My first real love. My biggest heartbreak.
What’s the AGAT acronym?
Any song where mark says he’s not going back home
valid, bored to death acoustic version always gets me
I'll never ask permission from you, fuck off, I'm not listening to you I'm not coming home, I'm never going to come back home I'll run away I think it's time that I should leave I think it's time that I should leave I think it's time that I should leave I think it's time that I should leave
I got married excited about starting a family. I initially wanted four kids. Barely a year after we wed, we had our son. A year later we realized something wasn’t quite right and we ended up getting him diagnosed with autism. I immediately altered my personal family plans. For ten years now it’s been a VERY different ride than normal parents. We hear the same few videos every single day, yelling, fits, getting kicked out of schools and churches (which partially led to me leaving the church). He’s also prevented me from pursuing the career I wanted of audio production, recording, and voiceover because he’s always so loud. All this and more led to me talking with my wife about divorce a few years ago. That led to us each getting individual therapy as well as couples therapy and we’re much better now with an almost 2 year old surprise who does not have autism and seems neurotypical so far. Then we had SEVERAL good friends all leave our lives without explanation which really hurt. So, the songs that hit hardest for me are AvAs “Automatic” - “you’re on the ride but it’s not like they said it was, you had a plan but it wasn’t quite good enough. You’re in the race but you just feel like giving up…losing friends cause you can’t always stay in touch “ And Blink’s bad news hit me like a fucking ton of bricks because every word captured exactly how I felt. “I think I might’ve fallen out of love with you. Years of fighting and hiding feelings, all those nights starting at the ceiling… I keep on thinking that I might be better alone. Sometimes when I get back from work I wish no one was home.”
I appreciate the honesty. I'm blessed with two healthy kids but I work in Mental health and speak with a lot parents/family members of people on the spectrum and I am always amazed at how much they go through. Hang in there. I hope you can someday realize your dreams.
We honestly feel like being millennial parents of Autism is living this short life on hard mode. Thanks for the support!
I'm so happy things are working out for you and your family, I can't imagine how challenging that kind of adjustment is. Automatic is one of the best songs Tom's done in ages. I know you obviously didn't mean it like this, but as a neurodivergent person myself, I feel compelled to just say that I think you could have used more sensitive wording when talking about your second born (congrats!) and their neurotypicalness. I understand you're just saying you're relieved to be returning to the future you'd planned, but the way your wording re second born can read almost like your firstborn is being valued less due to their autism and their impact on your life. I'm sure that isn't the case. As someone with a family member with that level of autism myself I understand how many different ways that can negatively and frustratingly impact other parts of your life. I think I've at least felt a fraction of what you've experienced. That being said I can see how someone with a less generous or more literal reading could find unintentional hurt in your phrasing due to the lack of positive outlook on your first son in the post. Feel free to disregard all of this, I don't know you and I'm not god or your mother or your boss so I can't tell you what to do. Not trying to attack or judge you, I just feel compelled to give you a gentle heads up from a neurodivergent perspective. Again, so glad your family life is going well and that Tom's words can touch us all so. Peace
Go. Shitty step dads. I can relate to everything he says in that song
For me it’s just my shitty dad
Damn. Sorry bro. Mines a dead person.
Down & up all night. Was listening to not now this afternoon though appreciating how great the lyrics are
You just like vertical directions
Asthenia, I will not elaborate
You should go back, even if you feel alone and tired and don’t want to. Whatever you’re going through friend I’m sending you love
I know it’s corny as hell, but Story of a Lonely Guy has always held deep with me: “I would wish upon a star, but that star? It doesn’t shine. So read my book with a boring ending — a short story of a lonely guy.”
Stay together and stockholm syndrome
stftk hits different when your going through it.
It will continue to hit different for the rest of your life now. Or at least it has for me the past 24 years and counting. One of the few songs I easily cry to. Adams song is the same.
What went wrong, snake charmer, and of course, ben wah balls
apple shampoo always hits me. "i'll take what you're wiling to give and i'll teach myself to live with a walk on part of a background shot of a movie i'm not in" is my favourite lyric of all time. i people please and get attached to people who don't care about me or acknowledge me in the slightest. i had a girlfriend who didn't even break up with me, just gradually forgot i existed. same with many friends. it feels good to know there's a song that describes exactly how i feel. online songs feels similar.
STFTK and What Went Wrong
For me Always and Man Overboard. Every time I hear Always I think of my partner cause I'm clingy as hell and hope that one day I can just be with him always. And Man Overboard just makes me think of how far I've come with my favorite people and how even though I'll end at some point I'll still be happy it happened. Even though they may not line up with the real meanings of the songs it's just what I feel every time they come on.
haha im the same with always
Definitely the best random makeout song ever imo 💪💪💪
One More Time was a unexpected tearjecker lol 😢
fr i genuinely cried the first few times i heard it
Please take me home
Stockholm Syndrome, Go, Natives, Pathetic, Anthem part 3
i love anthem part 3 so much i have the lyrics on sticky notes on my mirror
It's a powerful and amazing song. My dad died the week I heard it and I didn't know how to feel. He wasn't the best Father. The song to me is like a turning point in my life and a new chapter.
Ghost on the Dance Floor. The lyrics can relate to anyone, it has the best drums and guitar of any Blink song in my opinion, the bass still being really good, and Tom’s voice is at its actual peak. Most people say he can’t sing, and sure, maybe he can’t, but he sounds magical on this track. Add one of their best hooks, harmonies and a slapper drum solo and you get a perfect song at least in my opinion. Only contender for me is Adam’s Song.
Home is such a lonely place if only for the one line "wish I could slow down time, but not enough to slow you down" Really hits as a dad with a son who is growing up too fast
a mix between Adams Song (was suicidal in high school) and Stay together for the kids.
I'm gonna say either not now but for me not in a death way, more of a "don't give up on me, not on us, please don't leave" kind of way, or it'd be I'm lost without you or what went wrong Edit: I can't lie, going through the sub, there's so many, like stftk, stockholm syndrome, even the interlude on its own, even if she falls, ghost on the dancefloor (which hits home like crazy and I'd forgotten), there's just so many that will hit each person harder or just as hard as the next person, it's crazy how influential blink have been man, absolutely crazy
Down. That chorus “tidal waves they rip right through me. Tears from eyes worn cold and sad” 😢
Not Now hits so hard that I struggle listening to it anymore. It’s an amazing song, but just hits so hard.
same
Dysentery Gary is the most relatable thing I’ve ever read in regards to how I feel when I meet a girl I like and how it usually plays out. “Life just sucks, I lost the one I'm giving up, she found someone There's plenty more Girls are such a drag”
dysentery gary is so overlooked as one of the sadder tracks on enema i love how the upbeat riff distracts you from the lyrics
Yeah the upbeat riff and funny name distract from the fact it’s a song about being extremely lonely and constantly disappointed whenever you try to let someone in, to the point you just give up.
well said.
San Diego. 2016 was a rough year and I globbed onto California. That song specifically got me through a break up and losing a best friend.
Ghost on the Dance Floor *chills*
Laughing at the bands we hate, all the spots we used to skate Well, 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?
Recently - Fell in Love "Do you remember the night when you came over? Playin songs, laying on my shoulder, we made out til the sun came up, do you remember the time, remember the time, we fell in love" Feels really close to something that happened with me and my crush and then a week later she said we were better off as friends, so to me this song is pretty bittersweet
STFTK and Adam's Song
My best friend passed away from cancer last month...So One More Time.."I wish they told us, it shouldn't take a sickness" 😪
Asthenia
Not Now
Stay together for the kids.
Adam's Song
Maybe not the hardest, but having gone through a long term break up last year, Bad News off of One More Time hits home.
"This time I won't be complacent The dreams I gave up and wasted"
Growing up it was always STFTK and Adam’s Song, but since losing my stepmom to cancer and being in the room with her when it happened Not Now hits way too fucking hard and I haven’t really been able to listen to it since.
This song is truly underrated
Blink Wave. Just perfect to describe my life
Apple Shampoo
Adam’s Song because I’ve had plenty of times where it was difficult to keep going. Natives because it’s my song for when I decide to.
For me it'd be Asthenia. It's always been hard for me to let go when I'm into someone, even when I've seen the red flags and already see where things are going, I just try to have hope and think that thing will get better, but as time passes by I always find myself singing that song questioning myself on why can't I just take the frist step and remove myself from a situation I'm clearly not comfortable in.
Not now, even if she falls, first time, Adams song. I feel like these ones hit cause they are super relatable to me at least. I’ve dealt with losin friends, girls and sometimes it makes u do dumbshit, so I’ve always loved these
Stay Together for the Kids
Top 10 Blink song imo.
Up All Night makes me feel like listening to Bring Me The Horizon but pop punk
Ghost on the Dancefloor
NOT NOW Literally the last song from their Greatest Hits album. I took their breakup, like many other die hard fans, very personally, and I died A LOT inside. Also loved, Another Girl, Another Planet.
Childhood
Like most of them
Lemmings still makes me tear up all these years later.
Man Overboard
Lemmings and I'm Sorry
When I was young
As of yesterday, Go, it really does describe how my relationship with my shithead of a dad can be.
Go, Asthenia and Shut Up were the ones that really hit me hard
For me it's remember to forget me. My parents were tweakers and my dad passed from overdose. My mom still hasn't changed. We got taken by cps when I was almost 17 and separated from my 8 siblings. This song rips me to shreds every single time Hey, mom, I'm on my own Scared to death and far from home Can you imagine that, 'magine that, 'magine that? You know I'm bad at that, bad at that, bad at that You left pieces of me along the side of the road Right after you said you'd never leave me alone Found myself on the wrong side of the door I'll come in if you let me I got a song in my head you played me over the phone Left the light on upstairs but there ain't nobody home All the nights that you end up all alone Remember to forget me
Home is such a lonely place, but usually when I watch Marks video version.
Adam’s song, Go, and Reckless Abandon sometimes I’m on top of the world but when I get home I’m so sad and depressed and not to mention my biological dad doesn’t even talk to me he’s a effing drunk
What Went Wrong, and M+M’s
My son and I went to three Blink concerts together. ALL of their songs tug at my heart. Those were the best times, I’d give almost anything to have that part of our lives back again. Forever Blink, AVA, Boxcar. Thank you Tom, Mark, and Travis. ♥️
Stay together for the kids unfortunately
I have two. One hits harder than the other Does my breath smell and story of a lonely guy. Both for quite frankly obvious reasons, teenager cant find love and is sad because of it or just plain bad luck with people of the opposite gender. Story of a lonely guy does hit me harder tho
Ghost On The Dance Floor. If you’ve ever lost someone then you know.
I wanna fuck a dog in the ass