Adam's Song by Blink182 from the album Enema of the state deals with the social issue of suicide. The lyrics to the song, Adam (the main character of Adam's Song) tells about the better days, dieing and how he is alone. The author of "Adam's Song" subtly symbolised the song's theme through sub textual messages, the music and by reminiscing.
             The opening line to Blink182's Adam's Song is "I never thought I'd die alone," this line introduces the audience into the theme of dieing, further on in the same verse of the text it is established that suicide is the theme of the texts because the opening line and the line "I'm too depressed too go on," when shown together has the subtext produce the theme of the text.
             In the first verse the opening line is repeated in the second verse to make an impact on the audience. The impact left on the audience are of Adam's feelings and how he thought he was all alone. The line "Please tell mom this is not her fault" refers that Adam doesn't want anyone to take the blame for the death of him.
             Adam's Song has the chorus repeated three times, but in the last chorus the time frame is altered to Adam being sixteen again, which is changed from when Adam was older reminiscing about the better days which just happened to be when he was sixteen. In the first two choruses had the time frame as Adam being older looking back, but the third chorus is written like it is present day. The first two choruses started, "I never conquered, rarely came. 16 just held such better days. Days when I still felt alive. We couldn't wait to get outside. The world was wide, too late to try. The tour is over, we'd survived." Portraying the image of Adam remembering back on the good days, but in the last time the chorus is played it reads at the start as "I never conque
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