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• In 2008, Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker was badly injured in a harrowing plane accident that claimed four lives. The band had been on hiatus since 2005 but reunited after the fateful September crash.
  
  Seven years later, guitarist Tom DeLonge bailed out of the band, leaving Blink-182 without his sonic firepower for 2016's California and 2019's Nine. DeLonge returned to the fold in 2022 after bassist Mark Hoppus was diagnosed with cancer.
  
  "On More Time" is a reflective ballad where Hoppus and DeLonge trade verses, lamenting their tendency to regroup only when life throws its worst punches, like Barker's crash or Hoppus' cancer scare.
• Blink-182 released "One More Time" on September 21, 2023, through Columbia Records, as a double single for the band's ninth studio album of the same name, along with "More Than You Know."
• Travis Barker said in a trailer for One More Time that the lyrics examine the question, "Why does it take these catastrophes like me being in a plane crash or Mark being sick for our band to get back together."
• DeLonge kicks off the tune, baring his soul about the departures from the band.
  
  From strangers to brothers, then back to strangers
  Blink's wild ride, with highs and lows, they've seen it all
  
  Hoppus takes the second verse, referencing his own battle with cancer as well as Barker's 2008 plane crash that almost cost him his life.
  
  They shouldn't wait for illness or skies falling to talk,
  Why's it gotta be tragedy to open our hearts?
  
  DeLonge steps back in for the pre-chorus, wondering why it takes a catastrophe for the band members to share their feelings with each other.
  
  Must I fade away for you to miss my sound?
  Must I vanish for you to bid farewell?
  
  "When he told me he was sick, that was the gnarliest," DeLonge told Apple Music's Zane Lowe. "It was like nothing matters really. For me it was always heavy on my heart that our friendship wasn't mended. All of us have lived through tragedies now that tear apart places in your heart and you've got to mend them back together and figure out how to be a better version of yourself."
• Hoppus and DeLonge unite in the third verse, pledging a new chapter,
  
  I miss you, took time, but I admit it
  It still hurts even after all these years
  
  The lyric nods to "I Miss You" from Blink's 2003 self-titled album. The song's music video changes to the set of their "I Miss You" visual as this lyric is sung.
• The three Blink boys co-wrote the three-and-a-half-minute self-examination with a couple of outside songwriters:
  
  Aldae, whose other credits include Miley Cyrus' "Flowers" and "Used To Be Young."
  
  Andrew Goldstein (All Time Low's "Monsters," Blackbear's "Hot Girl Bummer," Maroon 5's "Beautiful Mistakes").
  
  Travis Barker produced the track with co-production by Aldae and Goldstein.
• The Carlos López Estrada-directed video finds the group performing in front of various backdrops that signal key memories from their career. These include the Warped Tour '99 and 2000 MTV Spring Break at Daytona Beach stages, the TRL studio set, and backgrounds from the band's previous music videos. The clip ends with archival footage of the group from their youth.
  
  Mexican-American filmmaker Carlos López Estrada's other video credits include The Goo Goo Dolls' "Notbroken" and Katy Perry's "Electric."
• "One More Time" spent 20 weeks atop Billboard's Alternative Chart, tying with Portugal. The Man's "Feel It Still" for the most weeks at #1 in the listing's history.