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“The Only Thing That Matters” is a fast-paced pop-punk banger about seeing someone as the perfect one. The narrator can’t believe how lucky he is to be with this person and how charming they are.
[Instrumental Intro]
[Verse 1: Mark Hoppus & Matt Skiba]
Where the hell did you come from?
Outer space or heaven above
Short of breath, my long-lost love
I can't believe my eyes, Are you for real?
My life before was such a mess
There's no use dwelling on the past
My broken heart was in a cast
Then you showed up and it began to heal
[Chorus: Mark Hoppus]
Cause you're the only thing that matters
Cause you're the only thing that's real
Cause you're the only thing I'll never let go
Cause you're the only thing I feel
[Verse 2: Matt Skiba]
Someday
You'll come back to me
And I'll say
Something bitterly
And you'll go racing toward the kitchen
Grab a knife, erase my vision
Take my flatscreen television
And my paintings by Marilyn Manson
[Chorus: Mark Hoppus]
Cause you're the only thing that matters
Cause you're the only thing that's real
Cause you're the only thing I'll never let go
Cause you're the only thing I feel
[Guitar Solo]
[Chorus: Mark Hoppus & Matt Skiba]
Cause you're the only thing that matters (Woah-oh)
Cause you're the only thing that's real (Woah-oh)
Cause you're the only thing I'll never let go
Cause you're the only thing I feel
The Only Thing That Matters was written by Matt Skiba & Mark Hoppus & John Feldmann & Travis Barker.
The Only Thing That Matters was produced by John Feldmann.
blink-182 released The Only Thing That Matters on Fri Jul 01 2016.
In a track by track breakdown recorded for NME, bassist Mark Hoppus said:
‘The Only Thing That Matters’ we wrote very early on in the process. It was this bass thing that I had come up with and we wrote the song around it. For whatever reason, John [Feldmann] got it in his head that the bass part a...
Producer John Feldman said in a Track-by-Track:
Collectively we all hated this song, up to a certain point. Then all of the sudden Mark rewrote the bass part and we all loved it. One day it just turned into this song. Mark originally had this cow punk, Social Distortion but in the Country-iest way...