Parking Lot (Blink-182 song)

The song was released on March 16, 2017 through BMG Rights Management, as a promotional single for the deluxe edition of the band's seventh studio album California.

"[6] In the first verse, Skiba recalls drinking on a train to Chicago,[7] spending ten dollars to see the punk group Naked Raygun perform at the Metro,[6] a famed music venue in the city.

Hoppus begins his verse recounting times spent with friends skateboarding in the parking lot of a Target retail store.

[5] He then moves to a narrative of sneaking into a lover's home to spend time together, referencing the groups Violent Femmes and the Smiths as bands they enjoy.

[3] Its hook of "fuck this place, let's put up a parking lot" has been compared to Joni Mitchell's 1970 single "Big Yellow Taxi", which uses a similar lyric in a close key and melody.

Former guitarist Tom DeLonge performing a slappy in Target parking lot in the early 1990s. Bassist Mark Hoppus specifically references these memories.