You gotta keep 'em separated

Like the latest fashion
Like a spreading disease
The kids are strappin' on the way to the classroom
Getting weapons with the greatest of ease

The gangs stake out their own campus locale
And if they catch ya slippin' 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
You're under 18 you won't be doin' 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 got wasted and the other's a waste

It goes down the same like the thousand before
No one's gettin' smarter no one's learnin' the score
Your never-ending spree of death and 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
You're under 18 you won't be doin' any time
Hey, come out and play!

It goes down the same like the thousand before
No one's gettin' smarter no one's learnin' the score
Your never-ending spree of death and 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
You're under 18 you won't be doin' any time
Hey, come out and play!