Blink’s first release since Neighborhoods came out in 2011.
This track notably implements an acoustic, sentimental sound in touch with its seasonal theme and debuted on BBC Radio 1 a week prior to the Dogs Eating Dogs EP release.
[Verse 1: Tom DeLonge]
Let's get started, the faint and broken-hearted
Hold it up, I've got something I cannot hide
The worst painkiller, that all-in filler
Apart and departed look in my eyes
[Pre-Chorus: Tom DeLonge and Mark Hoppus]
Sad, how far you ran, I'll search this land
Up through the clouds, then back here
We could reignite, like fireflies
Like an atom bomb at all hours
[Chorus: Mark Hoppus]
I'm empty like the day after Christmas
Swept beneath the wave of your goodbye
You left me on the day after Christmas
There's nothing left to say, and so goodnight
[Verse 2: Tom DeLonge]
I will follow the trail to tomorrow
With my loneliness, with sorrow all through the night
Sons and daughters, mothers and their fathers
Cross the bridges and the waters for clues left behind
[Pre-Chrous: Tom DeLonge and Mark Hoppus]
Sad, how far you ran, I'll search this land
Up through the clouds, then back here
We could reignite, like fireflies
Like an atom bomb at all hours
[Chorus: Mark Hoppus]
I'm empty like the day after Christmas
Swept beneath the wave of your goodbye
You left me on the day after Christmas
There's nothing left to say, and so goodnight
[Instrumental Bridge]
[Chorus: Mark Hoppus]
I'm empty like the day after Christmas
Swept beneath the wave of your goodbye
You left me on the day after Christmas
There's nothing left to say, and so goodnight
[Outro: Mark Hoppus]
There's nothing left to say, and so goodnight
Goodnight
Boxing Day was written by Tom DeLonge & Travis Barker & Mark Hoppus.
Boxing Day was produced by Chris “Hollywood” Holmes & blink-182.
blink-182 released Boxing Day on Mon Dec 10 2012.
Ahead of the release, Travis Barker said that the band had written a “very folky” new song, which would come to be “Boxing Day”.