2006Released
5:12

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Interesting facts and trivia about The Adventure. By Songfacts®.

In a Rolling Stone interview with Tom DeLonge (former member of Blink-182, Box Car Racer) on February 8, 2006, he said: "The song was inspired by a friend whose marriage was kind of falling apart. It touched me so deeply that I was up one night crying for him - I felt so hurt."

Tom DeLonge explained during the documentary The Pursuit of Tone how he realized he'd broken real ground with this song. "That night after I sang it, I remember sitting in this studio at 2 a.m., I was at my house, my family was asleep, and I was listening to this thing and about half way through the song are these tears in my eyes and I felt like there was something magical happening. That happens every once in a while when I'm a part of something artistically where I get kind of overwhelmed emotionally and feel like I'm really onto something that's important. Not that I think it's great or better than anything else, or that I think it's going to be something giant or big, it's because I feel it touches on something important to me and it grabbed a hold of—like a nerve—and is just gripping it and I could feel it and it's like electric waves through your body. It doesn't happen on every single thing but it happens every so often and you kinda go 'Wow, this is what I was meant to do.'"

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Song Analysis

Key, BPM (tempo) and time signature of The Adventure.
BKey
MajorMode
4/4Time Signature
144BPM

Album

The album The Adventure is released on.

Released By

The record label that has released The Adventure.
Geffen
© 2006 Geffen Records
℗ 2006 Geffen Records

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