<P> "Adam's Song" peaked at number two on the US Billboard Hot Modern Rock Tracks chart; it was also a top 25 hit in Canada and Italy, but did not replicate its success on other charts . It received praise from music critics, who considered it a change of pace from the trio's more lighthearted singles . The single's music video, a hit on MTV, was directed by Liz Friedlander . Though the song was intended to inspire hope to those struggling with depression, it encountered controversy when a student of Columbine High School committed suicide with the track on repeat in 2000 . </P> <P> Beginning in the summer of 1997, Blink - 182 would enter an extended period of touring to support their second studio album, Dude Ranch . The group had played a handful of dates on the Vans Warped Tour 1996, a lifestyle tour promoting skateboarding and punk rock music . However, upon Dude Ranch's release and popularity, Blink - 182 would play every date of the 1997 tour worldwide with the bands NOFX and Social Distortion . The group were gone from their hometown of San Diego for nearly nine months straight beginning in late 1997 . "When we did our longest tour stretch, it was right when I started dating my fiancee," recalled vocalist / guitarist Tom DeLonge . "We were all new and in love, and I had to leave . It was just, "Hey, I'll see you in nine months ." It was really hard ." </P> <P> Bassist Mark Hoppus penned "Adam's Song" to vent these frustrations and the loneliness he experienced on the tour; while the other members had longtime girlfriends to return home to, Hoppus was single . "When you're on tour, you're so lonely," Hoppus said . "You hang out with all your bros and it's a great time and everything, but everybody wants to come home and have a girlfriend . And every time we'd fly home, Tom and (former drummer) Scott (Raynor) always had girlfriends waiting for them at the airport, and I didn't . It's about me being depressed and lonely out on tour, and not really having anything to come home to ." The couplet "I couldn't wait til I got home / To pass the time in my room alone" originally ended "to get off the plane alone ." </P> <P> Hoppus said the song's inspiration came from "reading a magazine where some teenage kid had killed himself and left a letter for his family ." Untrue online rumors purported that the song was inspired by a friend from Hoppus' high school years who committed suicide, or a play titled Adam's Letter that has the same focus . A fictional suicide note was a part of the script for Adam's Letter, a play that wasn't written until two years after "Adam's Song" came out . John Cosper, the writer behind Adam's Letter, said: </P>

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