Blink-182 back with new songs: Tom DeLonge shares One More Time and More Than You Know

Their ninth studio album, entitled One Extra Time, was introduced on September 18 after posters with the album’s title and a smiley face went up in main cities throughout the globe, making everybody surprise what it was referring to.

The album, the primary from Blink-182 in 12 years, is ready to be launched on October 20, following the key reunion tour the trio went on earlier this 12 months.

As a warm-up, the trio launched a music video to accompany the brand new observe One Extra Time, during which they carry out the tune in a room alongside clips from their music movies and performances.

Mark Hoppus and Tom DeLonge take turns singing the verse, with the lyrics being trustworthy reflections on occasions when the three buddies ought to have supported one another higher as a substitute of ready for devastating life occasions to deliver them again collectively.

The lyrics share: “I want they informed us, it should not take a illness, Or airplanes falling out the sky,

“Do I’ve to die to listen to you miss me? Do I’ve to die to listen to you say goodbye? I do not wish to act like there’s tomorrow. I do not wish to wait to do that another time.”

The lyrics are referring to the time Travis Barker’s airplane crashed in 2008 and to Mark Hoppus’s most cancers prognosis in 2021, which prompted the band to resolve their points and get again collectively.

The tune goes onto confess: “I miss you, took time however I admit, It nonetheless hurts even in any case these years, And I do know that subsequent time ain’t all the time gonna occur, I gotta say I really like you whereas we’re right here.”

The band’s second observe from the album, Extra Than You Know, was launched with a lyric video. In it the band open up additional, sharing: “I don’t really feel ache, However I really feel greater than you’d ever know. I don’t really feel disgrace. I don’t have highs however I’ve received some lows.”