Post by X2I on Nov 4, 2005 1:13:57 GMT
// Cheshire Cat
Carousel
This song is about a guy who's girlfriend left him and he has no job and no money. He feels cut off from the world, waiting for the phone to ring. One of the few old songs that blink still regularly plays at shows, so I guess it must have some special meaning to them.
M+M's
Someone is so desperately lonely and in love with a girl and would do anything for her, and just wants to get away somewhere that he can be alone with her.
Fentzooler
One of the band member's ex-girlfriends that treats him badly all the time and just expects him to stay with her longer but he's tired of her 'always right' attitude and wants to leave.
Touchdown boy
This song is about how he thinks football players always get all the girls and how he's jealous.
Strings
A guy wants to have a girl and not be alone but he also wants to have freedom and not get tied to his girlfriend's "Strings".
Peggy Sue
This is a song growing up, when you want to do whatever you feel like, but your parents keep on telling you what you can and can't do.
Sometimes
Mark complaining about how he thinks his girlfriend doesn't love him anymore and he thinks that it's over because he doesn't say enough.
Does my breath smell?
This song is about Tom's view of girls and the success he has with them.
Cacophony
A song about a girl who wants too much in a relationship and Mark only wants a girlfriend and he says it's all moving too fast.
TV
Mark's love of TV! I need my TV, oh...
Toast and bananas
A girl dumps a guy and completely ignores him and this is just a song about how pissed he is at her.
Wasting time
About a guy who likes a girl allot and wants to ask her out but he's afraid that she'll say no and he just wastes all of his time thinking about her.
Romeo and Rebecca
Tom wants to have sex with his girlfriend that he has been with for a very long time and he has put all his time and money into her and she's younger than him and she doesn't want sex yet" for this song, but that isn't quite the way it comes over to me, it seems more like a song after breaking up with someone...
Ben Wah Balls
Well this is the longest track on the CD, and it's the start of the joke songs. It has absolutely no truth to it at all. It's about a guy who goes out side one day and meets this girl and falls in love with her and later realizes it's his daughter.
Depends
A song about a kid who keeps having accidents and some toilet problems.
// Dude Ranch
Pathetic
A song about a guy feeling pathetic, thinking about how he doesn't fit in with any of his friends and just wants to be left alone.
Voyeur
A song about a guy who likes watching a girl he knows shower because that's all that he can get.
Dammit
About a guy who gets dumped by her girl, and how he gets through it.
Boring
A guy is dumped by the same old boring line, "It's not you it's me". A song about trust.
Dick Lips
This song was written by tom, and he had no title for it. The day that we recorded it, our producer asked what the title for the song was, and tom had none. On that particular day, I was stoked on the phrase " "dick lips" and was calling everyone that name through the whole session. When Trombino asked tom for the title, I suggested dick lips as the name, and tom was stoked on it. We originally were going to come up with a better title when the record actually came out, but we ended up liking the name, and it stuck.
By: Mark
Waggy
I made this word up while belching, and wanted to title a song with it. This was the song that got stuck with that title.
By: Mark
Enthused
About a girl who dumps a guy and she doesn't want him to like her anymore so she pretends she doesn't even know he exists, even though he's still crazy for her.
Untitled
A song about a guy who gets all excited when a girl says that she likes him but later changes her mind.
Apple shampoo
This song is about a girl I had a crush on, and she used apple shampoo, and her hair always smelled like it.
By: Mark
Emo
Emo is actually a style of music, and we thought this song kind of sounded like an emo song when we worte it. During rehearsals, we would say, "hey, let's play that emo sounding song again." The title stuck.
By: Mark
Josie
A song by Mark about how his perfect girlfriend would be.
A new hope
This is the actual title of star wars. Watch the beginning credits when the words scroll up the screen.
By: Mark
Degenerate
A song about a guy who gets drunk one night and does some stuff and gets tossed into jail where he meets a guy called Ben Dover.
Lemmings
Lemmings are animals which follow one another and run off of cliffs into the sea to their deaths. The song is about an old friend of mine who expected everyone to follow what he said was correct. Most of the time, what he thought was correct was really idiotic. He expected us to be lemmings...
By: Mark
I'm sorry
I think that this is the saddest song on the whole of dude ranch. It can relate to a lot of different things depending on how you look at it. It's talking about how blink has progressed from being just a small band, and how their lives have changed.
// Enema Of State
Dumpweed
That's all about wishing you had a girl you could train. I remember writing the song thinking about my dog. You can train the dog to sit, to be quiet, to be a good dog. But you can't teach a girl to do anything. So I thought that'd be cool to write a song about...If only you had a girl that you could train like a dog, that'd be cool because then she could never make you mad, and she would never be a woman. And women are just a whole different species. So that song was written [like] 'As if...'
By: Tom
Don´t leave me
Mark wrote that song, so I can't really speak about what was going through his mind when he wrote that one. But I can judge on the lyrics. He wrote that song when he didn't even have a girlfriend, so I don't know who he's talking to. Sometimes you write a relationship song that really doesn't have that much deep meaning. I think it's just like that feeling when you're really in love with a girl, you're just thinking 'Please, please, please don't stop liking me.' That's the gist of the song. All the times you put your feelings into liking a girl, and she doesn't like you at all, and she thinks you're a scumbag. So therefore that song's like a prayer to a girl. Always hoping that you won't make the girl throw up forever, always hoping that the girls will love you. We speak for all males, we write songs hoping that girls will like us dirty rotten boys for a long time.
By: Tom
Aliens exist
As a hobby all I ever do is read books and study material on UFOs and government conspiracies. So I wrote a song about a guy talking about aliens as though he's had a weird experience but nobody believes him, they think he's full of Crap. But he's directing his angst toward the government, because the government knows there's something going on. But I'm one of those freaks that really believes that stuff exists. I think if anybody out there does a little bit of research they will find that they side with me. I think it's just a cool song coming from that point of view. I read books about abductions, and there are hundreds of thousands of people a year have an experience at night and they don't know what it is, they just know what they saw and what they felt, but nobody believes them.
By: Tom
Going away to college
That's a super-romantic song. Mark wrote the song as though you are a boy leaving your girlfriend, after years of school together. After high school, when you're leaving to go to college, and what do you say to this girl that you've been in love with for years, but now have to leave for years? I don't think it gets more romantic than that. It's a sad song and it's really moving. It's one of my favorite songs on the record, and the way the lyrics flow with the music, I just think it's a really sad, emotional song. It's something a lot of people go through. You probably date a girl in high school and grow up with her and learn so much about each other and have so many growing pains and have to leave to go to college. Do you stay with her, do you break up with her, do you have faith in the relationship...? I don't know. That's a cool thing to write a song about.
By: Tom
What´s my age again
One of Mark's girlfriends dumped Mark because he was way too immature. Yeah tell me bout it!!
By: Tom
Dysentery Gary
I wrote that song from a point of view. What if you were a guy who liked a girl, but the girl likes a different guy? It's kind of like 'I hate that guy, but I'm not sure why I hate him.' That's where it's supposed to come from. This guy is really frustrated because this girl doesn't like him, so he's going to make fun of this other guy. 'I can't think about any cruel things to say about him, but I just don't like him. That's the attitude that song has. 'And this girl broke my heart.' That'll make you feel a little bit better.
By: Tom
Adam's song
The story behind that is Mark read a letter someone sent him as an email, that a kid wrote before he committed suicide to his parents. 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.
By: Tom
All the small things
All The Small Things is a song I wrote for my girlfriend while we were recording. I had to write her a song, because I wrote songs about other girls, but I haven't written one for her. So I was kind of getting some heat for that. Not really though, because I love my girlfriend, so I was like, 'I need to write a rad song' because I was scared - if the song came out bad, my girlfriend would be pissed. So I kind of warned her that it would come out bad. Then it came out good, so I was happy. But the lyrics are totally true in that song - 'She left me roses by the stairs.' I remember I came home late one night about midnight and she left roses on the stairs because I was working late every night in the studio.
By: Tom
The party song
That song is about going to one of those parties and people getting and being stupid and girls trying to be the center of attention. It's just about girls trying too hard, acting like dimwits. I think we've all been there, we've all been to those parties where there's all these guys creeping out on three girls who just can't get enough attention.
By: Tom
Mutt
'Mutt' is a song I wrote about my friend Benji Weatherly, a professional surfer who has all the time. His name's Benji, but everyone nick named him Mutt, and it's just a song about a guy and a girl who like to have sex and who don't really care about much of anything else. I guess that doesn't really matter, as long as they're having fun. It's not too deep. As long as it seems deep, that's all that matters.
By: Tom
Wendy Clear
'Wendy Clear' is a song Mark wrote about this girl he had a crush on. He liked her but he really couldn't date her because she was a very influential person in the music industry. So them dating was a very tricky situation. 'I wish it didn't have to be so bad,' is how the song goes.
By: Tom
Anthem
'Anthem' is a song I wrote about having a party at your house, your parents coming home and finding out. I did that to my friend one time. I wanted my band to play - in high school - at my friend's house. His parents left only until midnight, but I still told the whole school that we were playing there. Thousands of people showed up, and then they all had to leave and we had to clean up the place before the parents came back at 12. It was so funny. The whole place chipped in with the clean up, but the cops showed up and his parents found out that way. So he ended up getting in to a lot of trouble. I couldn't believe that I invited all those people over and his parents were only away until midnight.
By: Tom
// The Mark, Tom & Travis Show
Man Overboard
Losing a friend, abandonement..., what else can I say?
Carousel
This song is about a guy who's girlfriend left him and he has no job and no money. He feels cut off from the world, waiting for the phone to ring. One of the few old songs that blink still regularly plays at shows, so I guess it must have some special meaning to them.
M+M's
Someone is so desperately lonely and in love with a girl and would do anything for her, and just wants to get away somewhere that he can be alone with her.
Fentzooler
One of the band member's ex-girlfriends that treats him badly all the time and just expects him to stay with her longer but he's tired of her 'always right' attitude and wants to leave.
Touchdown boy
This song is about how he thinks football players always get all the girls and how he's jealous.
Strings
A guy wants to have a girl and not be alone but he also wants to have freedom and not get tied to his girlfriend's "Strings".
Peggy Sue
This is a song growing up, when you want to do whatever you feel like, but your parents keep on telling you what you can and can't do.
Sometimes
Mark complaining about how he thinks his girlfriend doesn't love him anymore and he thinks that it's over because he doesn't say enough.
Does my breath smell?
This song is about Tom's view of girls and the success he has with them.
Cacophony
A song about a girl who wants too much in a relationship and Mark only wants a girlfriend and he says it's all moving too fast.
TV
Mark's love of TV! I need my TV, oh...
Toast and bananas
A girl dumps a guy and completely ignores him and this is just a song about how pissed he is at her.
Wasting time
About a guy who likes a girl allot and wants to ask her out but he's afraid that she'll say no and he just wastes all of his time thinking about her.
Romeo and Rebecca
Tom wants to have sex with his girlfriend that he has been with for a very long time and he has put all his time and money into her and she's younger than him and she doesn't want sex yet" for this song, but that isn't quite the way it comes over to me, it seems more like a song after breaking up with someone...
Ben Wah Balls
Well this is the longest track on the CD, and it's the start of the joke songs. It has absolutely no truth to it at all. It's about a guy who goes out side one day and meets this girl and falls in love with her and later realizes it's his daughter.
Depends
A song about a kid who keeps having accidents and some toilet problems.
// Dude Ranch
Pathetic
A song about a guy feeling pathetic, thinking about how he doesn't fit in with any of his friends and just wants to be left alone.
Voyeur
A song about a guy who likes watching a girl he knows shower because that's all that he can get.
Dammit
About a guy who gets dumped by her girl, and how he gets through it.
Boring
A guy is dumped by the same old boring line, "It's not you it's me". A song about trust.
Dick Lips
This song was written by tom, and he had no title for it. The day that we recorded it, our producer asked what the title for the song was, and tom had none. On that particular day, I was stoked on the phrase " "dick lips" and was calling everyone that name through the whole session. When Trombino asked tom for the title, I suggested dick lips as the name, and tom was stoked on it. We originally were going to come up with a better title when the record actually came out, but we ended up liking the name, and it stuck.
By: Mark
Waggy
I made this word up while belching, and wanted to title a song with it. This was the song that got stuck with that title.
By: Mark
Enthused
About a girl who dumps a guy and she doesn't want him to like her anymore so she pretends she doesn't even know he exists, even though he's still crazy for her.
Untitled
A song about a guy who gets all excited when a girl says that she likes him but later changes her mind.
Apple shampoo
This song is about a girl I had a crush on, and she used apple shampoo, and her hair always smelled like it.
By: Mark
Emo
Emo is actually a style of music, and we thought this song kind of sounded like an emo song when we worte it. During rehearsals, we would say, "hey, let's play that emo sounding song again." The title stuck.
By: Mark
Josie
A song by Mark about how his perfect girlfriend would be.
A new hope
This is the actual title of star wars. Watch the beginning credits when the words scroll up the screen.
By: Mark
Degenerate
A song about a guy who gets drunk one night and does some stuff and gets tossed into jail where he meets a guy called Ben Dover.
Lemmings
Lemmings are animals which follow one another and run off of cliffs into the sea to their deaths. The song is about an old friend of mine who expected everyone to follow what he said was correct. Most of the time, what he thought was correct was really idiotic. He expected us to be lemmings...
By: Mark
I'm sorry
I think that this is the saddest song on the whole of dude ranch. It can relate to a lot of different things depending on how you look at it. It's talking about how blink has progressed from being just a small band, and how their lives have changed.
// Enema Of State
Dumpweed
That's all about wishing you had a girl you could train. I remember writing the song thinking about my dog. You can train the dog to sit, to be quiet, to be a good dog. But you can't teach a girl to do anything. So I thought that'd be cool to write a song about...If only you had a girl that you could train like a dog, that'd be cool because then she could never make you mad, and she would never be a woman. And women are just a whole different species. So that song was written [like] 'As if...'
By: Tom
Don´t leave me
Mark wrote that song, so I can't really speak about what was going through his mind when he wrote that one. But I can judge on the lyrics. He wrote that song when he didn't even have a girlfriend, so I don't know who he's talking to. Sometimes you write a relationship song that really doesn't have that much deep meaning. I think it's just like that feeling when you're really in love with a girl, you're just thinking 'Please, please, please don't stop liking me.' That's the gist of the song. All the times you put your feelings into liking a girl, and she doesn't like you at all, and she thinks you're a scumbag. So therefore that song's like a prayer to a girl. Always hoping that you won't make the girl throw up forever, always hoping that the girls will love you. We speak for all males, we write songs hoping that girls will like us dirty rotten boys for a long time.
By: Tom
Aliens exist
As a hobby all I ever do is read books and study material on UFOs and government conspiracies. So I wrote a song about a guy talking about aliens as though he's had a weird experience but nobody believes him, they think he's full of Crap. But he's directing his angst toward the government, because the government knows there's something going on. But I'm one of those freaks that really believes that stuff exists. I think if anybody out there does a little bit of research they will find that they side with me. I think it's just a cool song coming from that point of view. I read books about abductions, and there are hundreds of thousands of people a year have an experience at night and they don't know what it is, they just know what they saw and what they felt, but nobody believes them.
By: Tom
Going away to college
That's a super-romantic song. Mark wrote the song as though you are a boy leaving your girlfriend, after years of school together. After high school, when you're leaving to go to college, and what do you say to this girl that you've been in love with for years, but now have to leave for years? I don't think it gets more romantic than that. It's a sad song and it's really moving. It's one of my favorite songs on the record, and the way the lyrics flow with the music, I just think it's a really sad, emotional song. It's something a lot of people go through. You probably date a girl in high school and grow up with her and learn so much about each other and have so many growing pains and have to leave to go to college. Do you stay with her, do you break up with her, do you have faith in the relationship...? I don't know. That's a cool thing to write a song about.
By: Tom
What´s my age again
One of Mark's girlfriends dumped Mark because he was way too immature. Yeah tell me bout it!!
By: Tom
Dysentery Gary
I wrote that song from a point of view. What if you were a guy who liked a girl, but the girl likes a different guy? It's kind of like 'I hate that guy, but I'm not sure why I hate him.' That's where it's supposed to come from. This guy is really frustrated because this girl doesn't like him, so he's going to make fun of this other guy. 'I can't think about any cruel things to say about him, but I just don't like him. That's the attitude that song has. 'And this girl broke my heart.' That'll make you feel a little bit better.
By: Tom
Adam's song
The story behind that is Mark read a letter someone sent him as an email, that a kid wrote before he committed suicide to his parents. 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.
By: Tom
All the small things
All The Small Things is a song I wrote for my girlfriend while we were recording. I had to write her a song, because I wrote songs about other girls, but I haven't written one for her. So I was kind of getting some heat for that. Not really though, because I love my girlfriend, so I was like, 'I need to write a rad song' because I was scared - if the song came out bad, my girlfriend would be pissed. So I kind of warned her that it would come out bad. Then it came out good, so I was happy. But the lyrics are totally true in that song - 'She left me roses by the stairs.' I remember I came home late one night about midnight and she left roses on the stairs because I was working late every night in the studio.
By: Tom
The party song
That song is about going to one of those parties and people getting and being stupid and girls trying to be the center of attention. It's just about girls trying too hard, acting like dimwits. I think we've all been there, we've all been to those parties where there's all these guys creeping out on three girls who just can't get enough attention.
By: Tom
Mutt
'Mutt' is a song I wrote about my friend Benji Weatherly, a professional surfer who has all the time. His name's Benji, but everyone nick named him Mutt, and it's just a song about a guy and a girl who like to have sex and who don't really care about much of anything else. I guess that doesn't really matter, as long as they're having fun. It's not too deep. As long as it seems deep, that's all that matters.
By: Tom
Wendy Clear
'Wendy Clear' is a song Mark wrote about this girl he had a crush on. He liked her but he really couldn't date her because she was a very influential person in the music industry. So them dating was a very tricky situation. 'I wish it didn't have to be so bad,' is how the song goes.
By: Tom
Anthem
'Anthem' is a song I wrote about having a party at your house, your parents coming home and finding out. I did that to my friend one time. I wanted my band to play - in high school - at my friend's house. His parents left only until midnight, but I still told the whole school that we were playing there. Thousands of people showed up, and then they all had to leave and we had to clean up the place before the parents came back at 12. It was so funny. The whole place chipped in with the clean up, but the cops showed up and his parents found out that way. So he ended up getting in to a lot of trouble. I couldn't believe that I invited all those people over and his parents were only away until midnight.
By: Tom
// The Mark, Tom & Travis Show
Man Overboard
Losing a friend, abandonement..., what else can I say?