Background
"All the Small Things" can be traced back to when the trio first began writing songs for Enema of the State at DML Studios. DeLonge brought in a few riffs for the band to judge and wrote the track about Jennifer Jenkins, his longtime girlfriend since high school that he would eventually marry. The specific lyrics "She left me roses on the stairs / Surprises let me know she cares" are based on an incident in which Jenkins left roses on the stairs after DeLonge returned home from recording. DeLonge had wanted to write a track including "na na na's" as an ode to one of his favorite bands, the Ramones. "It was one of the last songs we recorded," DeLonge told Kerrang!, "because it was simple it wasn't that much fun to play. But once we put it all together and played it as a band we all looked at each other and said, 'This song's huge!'"
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