All of This

Lyrically, the song is inspired by a story from producer Jerry Finn's adolescence, in which he was humiliated by a girl he had fallen in love with.

"All of This," as well as the song it segues from, "Easy Target," were based on a story from producer Jerry Finn's middle school years.

Finn was in love with a female classmate, Holly, who invited him over, only to have her and her friend drench him with a hose; humiliated, he rode home on his bicycle.

[5] Smith, for his part, was bemused as to how he would fit into Blink-182's sound: "I'd heard a couple of singles," he later told Blender, "but I couldn't really see how I could sing on anything or write any words.

[11] Entertainment Weekly's Leah Greenblatt called the song a "haunting paean to lost love,"[12] and Nick Catucci of The Village Voice referred to it as a "shuffling, string-gilded slow burner," while opining that Smith "has more presence than both of Blink's singers combined.

In response to the idea of "All of This" becoming a possible single, DeLonge joked "We would love it because it's a bad-ass song, and The Cure's Robert Smith sings on it, and that makes us cooler than everybody else.