Before The Phantom Menace hit theaters in 1999, blink-182 did their part to revive the franchise with this song based on the original 1977 movie Star Wars, which was re-titled Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope when George Lucas added three prequels to the series. A band composition, "A New Hope" is a love song, with the dream girl being Princess Leia. While we'd like to think the lyrics are based on the common Princess Leia fantasy, they sound like they could be coming from Luke Skywalker, who dreams of her while wandering the moons of Endor and the deserts of Tatooine. It wasn't until Return of the Jedi that Luke finds out that Leia is actually his sister, and he does a bit of crushing on her to that point.
The lyric, "drinking Colt 45's with Lando" is a reference to commercials for Colt 45 malt liquor starring Billy Dee Williams, who played Lando Calrissian in the films.
Aside from A New Hope, this also contains references to the other films in the original trilogy - including the previously mentioned Lando Calrissian, Han Solo's gambling buddy who first showed up in the sequel The Empire Strikes Back, and the moons of Endor from the third movie, The Return Of The Jedi. In the lyrics, Hoppus claims he'd do anything for Leia, including searching the moons of Endor. That would be an impressive feat considering the planet is orbited by nine moons. The Forest Moon of Endor is inhabited by furry creatures called Ewoks, who take Leia in after she crashes her speeder in pursuit of an Imperial stormtrooper.
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