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blink-182 have released a new song from lockdown, 'Quarantine'
blink-182 have released a new song from lockdown, 'Quarantine'.
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A portrait of emotional collapse set to rain and tidal waves. Tom DeLonge wrote 'Down' around an image of two people in a car during a downpour, the lyrics cycling through rain, silence, and the physical weight of need. Mark Hoppus anchors the chorus with its repetitive mantra, the word itself becoming a kind of gravitational pull. The song moves between DeLonge's verses, where he sketches the scene in fragments, and the chorus's hypnotic descent. What emerges is a track about being pulled under by another person, the emotional undertow stronger than any attempt at surface composure. The production stays lean enough to let the lyrics breathe, the repetition doing the work of drowning rather than any orchestral swell. It's restraint that makes it land.
"Down" is a single by blink-182, from the album blink-182, released 1st November 2003. The track is 3:04 long. It's filed under Rock. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 16 articles about blink-182.
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