You gotta keep 'em separated Like the latest fashion Like a spreading disease The kids are strappin' on their way to the classroom Getting weapons with the greatest of ease The gangs stake out their own campus locale And if they catch you 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 talkin' 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 the thousands before No one's getting smarter No one's learning to 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 talkin' 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 [Repeat last verse from "It goes down.." and first chorus]
The phrase, "Gotta keep 'em separated" came from when Dexter was in medical school. At the time, the band was unsure of how to tie the parts of the song together. One day, Dexter was experimenting with bacteria in vials. He left the vials of bacteria in a room to let them cool down. He came back after an hour or so and noticed that the bacteria were still warm because the two samples of bacteria were interacting with each other since the vials were close to each other. Dexter thought to himself, "I gotta keep 'em separated" and decided to use it to tie the new song together.
This song is about gang and gun violence in schools, and was the breakthrough hit for The Offspring. The title is a reference to the 1979 movie The Warriors, which features the famous line, "Warriors... come out and play."
In the 2006 Adam Sandler movie Click, this song can be heard being played by the marching band in the background during the swimming meet scene in the beginning.
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