The Offspring › Lyrics › Come Out and Play (Keep 'Em Separated)

You gotta keep 'em separated

Like the latest fashion, like a spreading disease
The kids are strapping on their way to the classroom
Getting weapons with the greatest of ease

The gangs stake their own campus locales
And if they catch you slipping then it's all over pal
If one guy's colors and the other's don't mix
They're gonna bash it up, bash it up, bash it up, bash it up

Hey, man you talking back to me? Take him out
You gotta keep 'em separated
Hey, man you disrespecting me? Take him out
You gotta keep 'em separated

Hey, they don't pay no mind
If you're under 18 you won't be doing any time
Hey, come out and play

By the time you hear the siren it's already too late
One goes to the morgue and the other to jail
One guy's wasted and the other's a waste

It goes down the same as a thousand before
No one's getting smarter, no one's learning the score
Your never ending spree of death a violence and hate
Is gonna tie your own rope, tie your own rope, tie your own

Hey, man you disrespecting me? Take him out
You gotta keep 'em separated
Hey, man you talking back to me? Take him out
You gotta keep 'em separated

Hey, they don't pay no mind
If you're under 18 you won't be doing any time
Hey, come out and play

It goes down the same as a thousand before
No one's getting smarter, no one's learning the score
Your never ending spree of death a violence and hate
Is gonna tie your own rope, tie your own rope, tie your own

Hey, man you talking back to me? Take him out
You gotta keep 'em separated
Hey, man you disrespecting me? Take him out
You gotta keep 'em separated

Hey, they don't pay no mind
If you're under 18 you won't be doing any time
Hey, come out and play