blink-182 Songs - Stay Together for the Kids Lyrics

blink-182 - Stay Together for the Kids

blink-182 - Stay Together for the Kids Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Take Off Your Pants And Jacket
Released: 2001

Stay Together for the Kids Lyrics

It's hard to wake up
When the shades have been pulled shut
This house is haunted
It's so pathetic
It makes no sense at all
I'm ripe with things to say
The words rot and fall away
What stupid poem could fix this home
I'd read it every day

So here's your holiday
Hope you enjoy it this time
You gave it all away
It was mine
So when you're dead and gone
Will you remember this night
Twenty years now lost
It's not right

Their anger hurts my ears
Been running strong for seven years
Rather than fix the problems
They never solve them
It makes no sense at all
I see them everyday
We get along, so why can't they?
If this is what he wants
And this is what she wants
Then why is there so much pain?

So here's your holiday
Hope you enjoy it this time
You gave it all away
It was mine
So when you're dead and gone
Will you remember this night
Twenty years now lost
It's not right

So here's your holiday
Hope you enjoy it this time
You gave it all away
It was mine
So when you're dead and gone
Will you remember this night
Twenty years now lost
It's not right
It's not right
It's not right
It's not right

Writer/s: BARKER, TRAVIS / DELONGE, TOM / HOPPUS, MARK
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Stay Together for the Kids

Tom DeLonge wrote this about his parents' divorce. He was 16, and his parents had just told him they were going to get a divorce. He left the house to sit in his car and write this song.

Mark Hoppus of blink-182 also had parents that divorced. (thanks, Nataliapalooza - Brampton, Canada, for above 2)

This is one of the songs on the album that indicates the start of a slow maturing process for the boys in blink-182. Here, they began tackling issues with more seriousness than in their previous efforts. They still retained their sense of humor, though, as indicated by the title of the album (say it quickly).