"Adam's Song," which band members say carries an anti-suicide message, reportedly was repeated continuously on a compactdisc player when Greg Barnes hanged himself in his garage in early May. The lyrics include phrases such as "I never thought I'd die alone" and "I'm too depressed to go on. You'll be sorry when I'm gone."

Eric Stein, Blink-182's publicist, said Wednesday that the group's playlist is the same for every show, and he did not know if Blink-182 planned to make any special announcement prior to playing "Adam's Song."

"All their dialogue in between songs is strictly made up on site," Stein said during a telephone interview from his office in Los Angeles. "So whatever they say (tonight) is whatever they say (tonight)."

Barnes, 17, was his team's top scorer and had been named to The Denver Post's All-Colorado team. He had lost a friend, Matt Ketcher, in the April 20, 1999, Columbine shootings and witnessed the slaying of teacher Dave Sanders.

Blink-182 members Wednesday were headed to a show in Salt Lake City and were unavailable for comment.

Stein said the band's bass player and vocalist, Mark Hoppus, was informed about Barnes' suicide immediately after The Associated Press ran a story on the incident.

"The guys were heartbroken," Stein said. Last week, MTV aired a segment that included comments from the band regarding Barnes' death.

"I was actually out shopping, and management called me up and told me the story of what happened, and I was like, "But that's an anti-suicide song!'" Hoppus said during the interview. "It felt awful. I mean, the things that the kid had had to go through in his life were very saddening, and then to end it that way was really depressing.

"But "Adam's Song,' the heart of the song is about having hard times in your life, being depressed, and going through a difficult period, but then finding the strength to go on and finding a better place at the other side of that."