Editing Take Off Your Pants and Jacket (section)

==Songs==
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 |description16 = "[[Stay Together for the Kids]]" showcases a quiet verse/loud chorus dynamic, and is lyrically about divorce.
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 |title17       = "Everytime I Look for You"
 |description17 = Bassist [[Mark Hoppus]] called "Everytime I Look for You" the most obvious combination of the band's disparate elements, including "distorted drone guitar, poppier verses and chorus, [and] punk to bombastic [drums]."<ref name="linernotes1"/>
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''Take Off Your Pants and Jacket'' has been called a [[concept album]] chronicling adolescence and associated feelings.<ref name=newrs>Nathan Brackett. (2004). ''The New Rolling Stone Album Guide''. New York: Fireside, 904 pp. First edition, 2004.</ref> The band did not consider them explicitly teenage songs: "The things that happen to you in [[High school (North America)|high school]] are the same things that happen your entire life," said Hoppus. "You can fall in love at sixty; you can get rejected at eighty."<ref name="mh18"/><ref name="shooman85"/> The record begins with "[[Anthem Part Two]]", which touches on disenchantment and blames adults for teenage problems.<ref name="a536">{{cite web | last=Augusto | first=Troy J. | title=Blink-182 | website=Variety | date=September 21, 2001 | url=https://variety.com/2001/music/reviews/blink-182-3-1200469847/ | access-date=June 4, 2024}}</ref> It serves as the opposite of the band's typical "party" image presented to the media, with heavily politically-charged lyrics.<ref name="shooman83"/> Joe Shooman called it a "generational manifesto that exhorts kids to be wary of the system that surrounds them".<ref name=shooman83>Shooman, 2010. p. 83</ref> "Online Songs" was written by Hoppus about "the thoughts that drive you crazy" in the aftermath of a [[breakup]], and is essentially a follow-up to "[[Josie (Blink-182 song)|Josie]]".<ref name="shooman83"/><ref name="tourprogram"/> "[[First Date (Blink-182 song)|First Date]]" was inspired by DeLonge and then wife Jennifer Jenkins' first date at [[SeaWorld San Diego|SeaWorld]] in San Diego.<ref name="Kerrang05"/> "I was about 21 at the time and it was an excuse for me to take her somewhere because I wanted to hang out with her," said DeLonge. The track was written as a summary of neurotic teen angst and awkwardness.<ref name="Kerrang05"/> "Happy Holidays, You Bastard" is a joke track intended to "piss parents off."<ref name="tourprogram"/> The fifth track, "Story of a Lonely Guy", concerns heartache and rejection prior to the high school [[prom]].<ref name="av13"/><ref name="tourprogram">{{cite book|title=Blink-182: Take Off Your Pants and Jacket Tour 2001 Official Program|year=2001 |publisher=MCA Records }}</ref> The song is downbeat and melancholy, filtered through "tuneful guitar lines reminiscent of [[the Cure]] and hefty drum patterns".<ref name="shooman83"/>

The following track, "[[The Rock Show]]", is the opposite: an upbeat "effervescent celebration of love, life and music". It was written as a "fast punk-rock love song" in the vein of the [[Ramones]] and [[Screeching Weasel]].<ref name=shooman86>Shooman, 2010. p. 86</ref> The song tells the story of two teenagers meeting a rock concert, and, despite failing grades and disapproving parents, falling and staying in love.<ref name=shooman84>Shooman, 2010. p. 84</ref> It was inspired by the band's early days in [[San Diego]]'s all-ages venue [[Soma San Diego|SOMA]].<ref name="tourprogram"/> The dysfunctional "[[Stay Together for the Kids]]" follows and is written about divorce from the point of view of a helpless child.<ref name="y616"/><ref name="APCoverStory"/> Inspired by DeLonge's parents' divorce, it is one of the band's darker songs.<ref name="av13"/><ref name="shooman84"/> "Roller Coaster" was written when Hoppus had a nightmare when he and his wife, Skye, first began dating; the song is about finding something ideal but fearing for its certain departure.<ref name=APCoverStory>{{cite magazine| last = Heller| first = Greg| date = June 2001| title = All the Big Things|magazine= [[Alternative Press (music magazine)|Alternative Press]]| issue = 155|pages=56–64| publisher = Alternative Magazines Inc.| issn = 1065-1667}}</ref> "Reckless Abandon" was penned by DeLonge as a reflection on summer memories, including parties, skateboarding and trips to the beach.<ref name="tourprogram"/> "Everytime I Look for You" has no specific lyrical basis, according to Hoppus, and "Give Me One Good Reason" was written about [[punk music]] and nonconformity in a high school setting.<ref name="tourprogram"/> ''[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]]'' columnist Tim Coffman called it "practically a pop-punk answer to "[[Come On Eileen]]" [...] "Many of the great pop-punk songs are about rallying against your parents. No one really talked about what to do once the rebellion was over, though."<ref name="w875">{{cite web | last=Coffman | first=Tim | title=Blink-182's Most Underrated Songs | website=SPIN | date=October 12, 2022 | url=https://www.spin.com/2022/10/blink-182-underrated-songs/ | access-date=June 4, 2024}}</ref> "Shut Up", a "broken-family snapshot", revisits the territory of youthful woes, described by Shooman as a "fairly familiar [[Rite of passage|rites-of-passage]] tale" that "adds to general themes of isolation, alienation and moving on to a new place that pervade ''Take Off Your Pants and Jacket''".<ref name=shooman85>Shooman, 2010. p. 85</ref><ref name="rs"/> "Please Take Me Home" concludes the standard edition of the album and was written about the consequences of a friendship developing into a relationship.<ref name="av13"/><ref name="tourprogram"/>

Several bonus tracks follow on separate editions; some continue the teenage theme, while others are joke tracks. Notably, "What Went Wrong" is an [[Acoustic music|acoustic]] track; while DeLonge felt "staple acoustic songs" were big for groups at the time (such as [[Green Day]]'s "[[Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)|Good Riddance]]"), the band wrote all of their songs from their inception on acoustic guitars, and he felt he would rather have "What Went Wrong" in its original form.<ref name="APCoverStory"/> "You grow up and realize, 'Fuck! Who gives a fuck about punk rock?'" he said. "There are so many great forms of music out there, and you grow beyond wanting to listen to or write something because your parents will hate it."<ref name="APCoverStory"/> Producer [[Jerry Finn]] suggested lyrics for the song after viewing a documentary on the first [[Soviet]] [[nuclear test]]; in the film, an aged Soviet physicist says of watching the explosion, "There was a loud boom, and then the bomb began fiercely kicking at the world."<ref name="APCoverStory"/>