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
[Bridge 1]
The gangs stake their own campus locale
And if they catch you slippin' then it's all over pal
If one guy's colors and the others' don't mix
They're gonna (bash it up)(x4)
[Pre-chorus 1]
Hey, man you talkin' back to me?
Take him out
You gotta keep 'em
Hey, man you disrespecting me?
Take him out
You gotta keep 'em separated
[Chorus]
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's to jail
One guys wasted and the other's a waste
[Bridge 2]
It goes down the same as the thousand before
No one's getting smarter no one's learning the score
You never ending spree of death and violence and hate
Is gonna (tie your own rope)(x3)
[Pre-chorus 2]
Hey, man you disrespecting me?
Take him out
You gotta keep 'em
Hey, man you talking back to me?
Take him out
You gotta keep 'em separated
[Chorus]
[Bridge 2] - [Pre-chorus 1] - [Chorus]
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
[Bridge 1]
The gangs stake their own campus locale
And if they catch you slippin' then it's all over pal
If one guy's colors and the others' don't mix
They're gonna (bash it up)(x4)
[Pre-chorus 1]
Hey, man you talkin' back to me?
Take him out
You gotta keep 'em
Hey, man you disrespecting me?
Take him out
You gotta keep 'em separated
[Chorus]
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's to jail
One guys wasted and the other's a waste
[Bridge 2]
It goes down the same as the thousand before
No one's getting smarter no one's learning the score
You never ending spree of death and violence and hate
Is gonna (tie your own rope)(x3)
[Pre-chorus 2]
Hey, man you disrespecting me?
Take him out
You gotta keep 'em
Hey, man you talking back to me?
Take him out
You gotta keep 'em separated
[Chorus]
[Bridge 2] - [Pre-chorus 1] - [Chorus]