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! 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! 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