This song is about a guy who has a huge crush on a girl but is wondering if he is just wasting his time thinking about her. He questions whether she is even interested in him, and thinks of the things he could do that might get her attention: "Maybe I'd impress her, by being in a band... maybe I'll win her heart, by writing a song about her."
As he's contemplating asking the girl out, Blink vocalist/bassist Mark Hoppus slips in a reference to his first car, a beat-up Nissan Stanza nicknamed the Cougar. "You know that the Cougar would never make it," he laments, followed by the line, "And in my town you can't drive naked." The latter bit was suggested by engineer Jeff Forrest while Hoppus was recording his vocals at Doubletime Studios in San Diego. According to then-drummer Scott Raynor, the band adopted the lyric without question. "Jeff never offered any further insight into what may have been the source material for this pro-active free association, and we never asked," he explained in the 2010 book Blink-182: The Bands, The Breakdown & The Return by Joe Shooman.
This is the second single from blink-182's debut studio album, Cheshire Cat, following "M+M's."
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