Blink-182: Up All Night Meaning

Song Released: 2011

Up All Night Lyrics

Everyone wants to call it all around our life with a better name.
Everyone falls and spins and gets up again with a friend who does the same.
Everyone lies and cheats their wants and needs and still believes their heart.
And Everyone gets the...

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   anonymous

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   Aug 27th 2011 !⃝

   I think it's about people's goals in life, and the way they go through to get there.
   
   It's like, we have our problem we all want to call our lives with a better name, make it sound sweeter than it really is.
   We go through hard things in life but always get through this and meet people who are just the same.
   In the next line I think he meant that we a hour our missions and needs in life and we know what we really want but we can't always get what we want so we try to fit the situation to the goal and lie to ourselves and make ourselves believe that this is what we want when it's not.
   and the pain he's talking about is probably the pain you feel when you realize your life and your accomplishments aren't what you intended and you realize you are lying to yourself to make yourself feel better about it.
   "let me get this straight, do you want me here?" this line is a little problematic and hard to analyze I think he means society is not accepting him for who he is and he is feeling not wanted. Or he might mean that there's like a storm in is mind and his thought of all this pain and life is tearing him apart and making it really hard for him to live, so he's like asking himself does he really need this, will his thoughts let him a little rest, something else to focus on besides the badness in his life.
   Demons clearly mean bad so I think he is referring to his thoughts about his life, it won't let him rest, it keeps him up all night.
2. anonymous

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   Apr 5th 2012 !⃝

   When we started listening to Blink 182, we where teenagers who wanted to party, or where dealing with teenager problems. This song is about becoming an adult, finding someone that wants to deal with you forever, raising kids in a different world, and in general growing up and learning to deal with the real world. At least that's what I get out of it.
3. anonymous

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   Dec 3rd 2011 !⃝

   They cant sleep.
4. anonymous

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   Oct 16th 2011 !⃝

   Honestly I think this is about how Tom cheated on his wife or girlfriend or whoever and he feels super guilty about that ( everyone lies and cheats their wants and needs; and all these demons, they keep me up all night) and just the hardships of life and not having someone to live your life with. I could easily be wrong, but that is what I'm getting when I listen to this song and see the lyrics.

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5. anonymous

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   Aug 14th 2011 !⃝

   Its about how Tom Delonge(the singer/guitar) is saying how he rele wants to stay up all night and LIVE!!!! he says in the song....Everyone wants to call it all around our life with a better name.
   Everyone falls and spins and gets up again with a friend who does the same.
   Everyone lies and cheats their wants and needs and still believes their heart.
   And everyone gets the chills, the kind that kills when the pain begins to start.
   
   Let me get this straight, do you want me here?
   As I struggle through each and every year.
   And all these demons, they keep me up all night.
   They keep me up all night.
   They keep me up all night.
   
   Everyone's cross to bears the crown they wear on endless holiday.
   Everyone raises kids in a world that changes life to a bitter game.
   Everyone works and fights, stays up all night to celebrate the day.
   And everyone lives to tell the tale of how we die alone some day.
   
   Let me get this straight, do you want me here?
   As I struggle through each and every year.
   And all these demons, they keep me up all night.
   They keep me up all night
   They keep me up all night
   They keep me up all night
   They keep me up all night
6. anonymous

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   Aug 14th 2011 !⃝

   I think its about the break up, he says...Lets get this straight, do u want me here?....clearly its about them breaking up
7. anonymous

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   Jul 29th 2011 !⃝

   i think its about him not being able to sleep or can't stop thinking which is a pain. the demons he's probably referring to is his problems and whats on his mind. it seems to be effecting important people to him. he says let me get this straight do you want me here.

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