Someone else asked if the song was about segregation; it actually refers to Southern California's wave of gang violence in the 90's. "Keep em separated" refers to the gangs' tendency of violently assaulting anyone they believed was intruding on their turf (this is also referenced to by the line "the gangs stake their own campus locales", and "if one guy's colors and the other's don't mix"); hence, keeping the rival gangs separated was the only way to prevent the violence that often targeted innocent bystanders as well.
Nah, lol....when you hear a Mexican who grew up in the hippie days singing "gotta keep em separated" you'll hear a much stronger accent, sounds way better. Still, us Mexicans love this
This was a staple at my local rock club in the nineties. I could never really make out the words, largely due to the insanely large and loud speakers making it impenetrable, but I always guessed it was something about keeping kids apart. Never realised it was about gang violence until it popped up recently on a 90s rock playlist on Spotify and I decided to check out the lyrics. The other thing that hit me was just how good The Offspring were (this was one of three of theirs on that playlist, the other two being Self Esteem and The Kids Aren’t Alright)
"You're under eighteen, you won't be doin' any time". Wow...great stuff. I never listened to the words before. Who knew that what I assumed was a light-hearted song about a guy tempting some underage chick to come out and party was actually about teen violence.
Marvio Botticelli Seriously creepy themes killed that line. "..a light-hearted song about a guy tempting some underage chick to come out and party.." I mean, SERIOUSLY?
settle down rook, he was young when he made this interpretation, i think its cool he is able to admit he initially got the wrong msg of this song. stop inhibiting people
When I was two years old I guess (my dad laughs every time he tells this story) but we were living in Utah at the time. We were on the way to Albertsons to get stuff for supper. And this damn song came on and my dumb two year old self started singing "Getting supper ready". I'm about to turn 18 now.
Absolutely love this song 🎶 ❤the lyrics are on point!! Gang violence colors are in many forms, from the streets as well as from those who suppose to protect and serve!!
I’m well beyond my sixties and always liked this song just for the upbeat tempo but never fully understood what was being sung. Now I can really sink my teeth into it and I love it. Great song with great lyrics…..Truth right there. Thanks for posting the lyrics.🤙🤙🤙
They're actually pretty damn good lyrics how the gang crap really corrupted youthful innocence. Poignant tune to this day! Thanks for doing them up Lina! :)
I cannot listen to this song and not put myself in the opening of either a racing game or movie, there's so many changes in beat, everything is just absolutely amazing for that concept; it would be flawless if directed/created properly.
This and Dookie were the first tapes I ever bought with my own money as a fourth grader. I remember listening to this song in the car and my mom telling me it was about keeping the races separate.
Same thing, actually. The 'races' ARE gangs. Better said, they who ascribe to the theory of 'race' and they who choose to represent race, are gangsters, so to speak. The rest of us are just Citizens.
Just found out my daughter tested negative on two tests for Covid yet my son has tested positive. I just told my husband well we gotta keep em separated and of course this song popped right in my head and I had to come listen. Great song!!
I sang that to my math teacher in college. It was a math problem and he would keep reminding the students “you gotta keep ‘em separated” about some algebraic problem. This song always comes into my head whenever I hear anyone talk about keeping them separated. This is a timeless song for sure!
"Bryan Keith "Dexter" Holland, Ph.D is an American musician who is best known as the lead vocalist, rhythm guitarist, and primary songwriter of the American rock band The Offspring. In 2017, Holland attained a PhD in molecular biology."
really? I'm trying to get back for my daughter's sake but people tell me it's a bad idea. Currently happy... just miss the shit out of her half the time.
I woke up this morning and for some reason this song was in my head out the blue like it was being transmitted to my brain so I had to listen to it only I needed to know all the lyrics so I came here and I'm glad I did. I never knew this song was about I only knew when he said like the latest fashion, tie your own rope,. Disrespect me and keep em separated that's the only thing I knew this song said.
this is how I feel with my two girls.. they fight. well my oldest child fights with the youngest.. the youngest looks up to the oldest and the oldest really wants her away! but when they get along it's a miracle!
I know that this is late but me and my sister are the same way, we may not get along all the time but if someone were to ever pick on my younger sister that kid is dead, I would do anything to keep her safe. Even though they fight with eachother I'm sure that they'll do the same and once their older they might just get along better
No, it's not. Listen to the words of this song. It has happened and is still happening. Maybe you should try thinking of it in terms of "kid with gun, colors and the racist motivator" ah, keep it/them separated. Duh
Noreen Annuzzi r/woosh. Also, the “keep ‘em separated” bit was actually inspired by Holland’s experience with hot liquids in a lab. The rest of the song was about the gang violence he witnessed around his school. (Btw the song is actually named “come out and play” not “keep ‘em separated” in case you didn’t know.)
@@bickeringstone6284 I was listening to that the most after all the other words to the song. Come out and play. I like that 😊 for some reason. I don't like violence however, I agree with standing up for yourself.
I've been looking for this song for a month at least, and the only thing I could say was "there's a guy with a kinda gruff voice who goes (gruff voice) gonna na na ba na" but I don't know what he says" Just heard some guy say 'gotta keep em separated' and about got whiplash looking at him.
As a black guy that went to a white high school in the 90s I have to say me and my homeboys used to laugh our asses off when yall would get into formation to this song during the school dances. Yall took this song serious. We had to get out the way and wait for Montell Jordan to come on. 😅
It's actually played in a song but I can't think of the name of it to me it sounds like something that would be played on beaches or makes me think of the 1950's. If anyone can help me identifiy the song you guys would be awesome.
WOW! I never really knew the lyrics--just liking the music (that guitar sound that reminds me of Pulp Fiction). I would have never guessed the meaning of lyrics
Someone else asked if the song was about segregation; it actually refers to Southern California's wave of gang violence in the 90's. "Keep em separated" refers to the gangs' tendency of violently assaulting anyone they believed was intruding on their turf (this is also referenced to by the line "the gangs stake their own campus locales", and "if one guy's colors and the other's don't mix"); hence, keeping the rival gangs separated was the only way to prevent the violence that often targeted innocent bystanders as well.
cl0vvntiem thanks for the clarity, that's actually pretty cool to know. neat little tidbit.
However the actual content of this song can easily be misconstrued with segregation given the line "You gotta keen em' separated".
I believe that is about prison rape
Actually it's about chemistry according to the music video
Yep real shiz going down in LA in the 90’s
These lyrics speak for themselves....what a beautiful presentation of REALITY!!
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And irony. 🙂🤣
Our county in Upstate NY used the "keep 'em Separted" portion of the song to pitch recycling, years ago.
Jim Cavale omg that’s hilarious 😆
I wish they incentivized recycling these days
I totally remember this. New Yorker here myself
As a East Coaster could used the entire song
Shit done changed. Protect history.
That little Mexican accent on 'you gotta keep em seperated' drives me crazy, love love love.
HAHA all the chicanos where I work would always sing along love it
Who's the guy that says that line?
Nah, lol....when you hear a Mexican who grew up in the hippie days singing "gotta keep em separated" you'll hear a much stronger accent, sounds way better. Still, us Mexicans love this
That ain't Mexican at all dude
This was a staple at my local rock club in the nineties. I could never really make out the words, largely due to the insanely large and loud speakers making it impenetrable, but I always guessed it was something about keeping kids apart. Never realised it was about gang violence until it popped up recently on a 90s rock playlist on Spotify and I decided to check out the lyrics. The other thing that hit me was just how good The Offspring were (this was one of three of theirs on that playlist, the other two being Self Esteem and The Kids Aren’t Alright)
That guitar hook is simply classic!
"You're under eighteen, you won't be doin' any time". Wow...great stuff. I never listened to the words before. Who knew that what I assumed was a light-hearted song about a guy tempting some underage chick to come out and party was actually about teen violence.
No kidding man, same here, kind of a bummer in sense
School shootings killed that line.
Marvio Botticelli Seriously creepy themes killed that line. "..a light-hearted song about a guy tempting some underage chick to come out and party.."
I mean, SERIOUSLY?
And once more, WTF?!?
settle down rook, he was young when he made this interpretation, i think its cool he is able to admit he initially got the wrong msg of this song. stop inhibiting people
didnt rea;ize this song was about gang violence but its been on the radio alot lately
DaftKnightLP
Bye camelia erharght
Lol
A lot
So much meaning is so few words.
Amazing.
When I was two years old I guess (my dad laughs every time he tells this story) but we were living in Utah at the time. We were on the way to Albertsons to get stuff for supper. And this damn song came on and my dumb two year old self started singing "Getting supper ready". I'm about to turn 18 now.
Fucking great haha, getting super ready 😂😂
Congrats on staying alive 18 years bro
Albertsons grocery - ruclips.net/video/U-DRXmXU3ac/видео.html
Too bad , If you were under 18 you wouldn't do any time.
Omg, that's too funny!
A classic the day it came out and now my ten year old loves it.
I used to listen to gonna go far kid when i was 10
I played this song then my mom busted into my room and started singing along 😂😂😂
Goddamn this was 2 years ago
Niceee🙌😂🎤🎤
You have a dope mom homie
Xd that is funny
So, your mom sang “keep ‘em separated” with her “offspring”? :)
@@happyrosym.5103 I’m adopted....
Dear Lort, I still love this song as much as i did in 94.
Absolutely love this song 🎶 ❤the lyrics are on point!! Gang violence colors are in many forms, from the streets as well as from those who suppose to protect and serve!!
I’m well beyond my sixties and always liked this song just for the upbeat tempo but never fully understood what was being sung. Now I can really sink my teeth into it and I love it. Great song with great lyrics…..Truth right there. Thanks for posting the lyrics.🤙🤙🤙
Tyrone needs to be separated from civilized society!
God Bless this World 🌎 and all my Brothers and Sisters
The Most Highs Voice! His creativity knows no bounds!!!
best song ever!!! I was listening to this on our way to the store and I looked it up to hear the full song, BEST IDEA EVER!!!
They're actually pretty damn good lyrics how the gang crap really corrupted youthful innocence. Poignant tune to this day! Thanks for doing them up Lina! :)
If you were a kid in the 90's this was your jam at some point.
My mom used to play this in the car all the time
Its actually called come out and play not keep em seperated
but still, you got to keep'em separated... you just have to...
Logan Luck thank u. Nice to see another guy who knows. I was 1 of there biggest fans
Logan Luck yeah man your not wrong
Logan Luck no it not bro bud light bear song fore bud light bro listing to the song bro
John Dries it's called come out and play dude
I thought this song was about laundry. you know you gotta keep them separated so, you don't have have pink socks and t-shirts .
I was sure it's about animals in the cages... Ya know, to not get hundreds of hamsters.
Is your cloths talkin back to you? Is it disrespectin you? :P
You get weapons with the greatest of ease with your clothes?
Farrakhan Wolcott WTF 😂😂
Farrakhan Wolcott Lol 😂
Thx for posting
this song got me into rock
This is more punk
@@wavyphoton8205 I mean they are a rock band, but ig I agree this song is more punk.
@@wavyphoton8205 "who cares"
-name forgotten
This song should be titled “parenting advice”
❤
I cannot listen to this song and not put myself in the opening of either a racing game or movie, there's so many changes in beat, everything is just absolutely amazing for that concept; it would be flawless if directed/created properly.
this is my favorite band
Great song. Love The Offspring.
I'm one as are you. 😉
I have been looking for this song for almost 2 YEARS! FINALLY!!!!!!!
Oh dang.
Probably couldn't find it because it's actually called "Come Out and Play"
I liked their appearance in the movie Idle Hands
This and Dookie were the first tapes I ever bought with my own money as a fourth grader. I remember listening to this song in the car and my mom telling me it was about keeping the races separate.
She actually was wrong. It was about keeping the gangs separated. But nevertheless great memory and thank you for sharing it with us.
Same thing, actually.
The 'races' ARE gangs.
Better said, they who ascribe to the theory of 'race' and they who choose to represent race, are gangsters, so to speak.
The rest of us are just Citizens.
Let every race in the western world decide for themselves.
It is the only place on this planet where it somewhat worked...
Segregation is coming! Tyrone is outta control!
Thank you !
what ever the guy that said "you gitta keep"em seperated" was paid, it wasn't enough.
Agreed, great song
Powdered Toast man 😂😂😂😂😂
why do people spell words to match mispronunciations when it wasn’t mispronounced in the first place?
just a pet peeve.
That profile picture gave me life
So true
I like the way you transcribed the lyrics.
I heard this song 1 or 2 times and I haven't been listening to this song but surprisingly I still remember the gotta keep them separated part
Dark themes only make good songs even more meaningful.
My favorite song from any racing game.
Bro this song be bussin
Just found out my daughter tested negative on two tests for Covid yet my son has tested positive. I just told my husband well we gotta keep em separated and of course this song popped right in my head and I had to come listen. Great song!!
s i g h
I hope and pray that your son got over it ok since it's been 11 months. -God Bless you and your family from a random dude on these thar interar-netz ☺
So cute, so cool!
WWG1WGA
😅
Listin to this before hockey in the metro toronto hockey league back n da day
Probably get even more views if you had the correct title. "Come Out And Play".
Tossed Salad No we like translating the subliminal messages...there are no simplists here, boy...
+Tossed Sald
"Keep 'em seperated" sounds way better tho
@@christisummers1819 There are no subliinal messages to translate, it's pretty straightforward in its message. Stop trying to seem "deep," boy.
Haha yea I thought the same haha 🤣!
I used the incorrect title to look it up.
listening to this song back in the 00s, i never knew it was about gang violence, they always sang to fast, how fittig is this song in todays world
Great songs will live forever...
deez
@@meisbigepiccoolstrongpro1365 nuts?
And I always thought it was about astrolite.
Thanks Linalsf !
I sang that to my math teacher in college. It was a math problem and he would keep reminding the students “you gotta keep ‘em separated” about some algebraic problem. This song always comes into my head whenever I hear anyone talk about keeping them separated. This is a timeless song for sure!
Way ahead for its time🤘
The bass is awesome
Thank you, Lina Sjökvist, for producing this Yt video. I had not know of the lyrics about gangs before.
This is a great song to play at a wedding
goofy
Haha
Fr. 🤩 I've been hearing it a lot lately, must be anniversary
Tell me about it
I forgot about this song from back in the day ... and I have to say - baaaaad . thank you for the post.
This is a song in support of quarantining the citizens during the Corona-virus crisis.
0:44 "a spreading disease"
Dexter Holland has a PhD in molecular biology (infectious viruses in particular), so I'm sure he'd endorse this reading.
"Bryan Keith "Dexter" Holland, Ph.D is an American musician who is best known as the lead vocalist, rhythm guitarist, and primary songwriter of the American rock band The Offspring. In 2017, Holland attained a PhD in molecular biology."
Its interesting to go back and look at the pre cv world.
@@EricFarmer01 (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻ ...
Love the bit of country twang in this awesome tune!
Love to have the sound of that guitar as my ringtone.
You. can down load it
Best hockey fight song.
I love this song
That song was so much fun back in the day. I was more into heavier music but I liked this one and Basket Case by Green Day
great audio quality
Bubble Boy was my introduction to this song. Thanks dad.
This song is about my 2 cats who don't get along.
Keep Your Felines Separated.
clisa lol same here.
Ok I'm calling this my favourite comment on RUclips on account of the fact I totally understand.
Ijust realized its a song about gangs. But ialways sang orplayed the keep em seperated part when ever my kids or dogs started fighting. Lol
@@titusmccarthy lol
Drama down..
We've got you surrounded.
❤❤❤❤
Heard this song everywhere growing up. I just now read the lyrics. Holy shit. These guys are badass.
I don't even listen to this band but somehow I remembered the verse; keep them separated lol. Fun song
This song should be the official New World Anthem 2020-
The Year of Self-Destruction
Now if only there was a way to get the inner city youth of chicago to listen and love this song. Would be great for them.🔥🔥🔥
When your parents are divorced but want to get back together.
really? I'm trying to get back for my daughter's sake but people tell me it's a bad idea. Currently happy... just miss the shit out of her half the time.
@@zeezlebops You gotta keep em separated
Now that was hilarious!!!!!!😄😄😄
That happened to me and it's been hell the past almost 16 years
True on both accounts. My parents divorced when I was only seven. It was hell for the last 11 years but hey I got there in the end
The first video I saw with this song was an Akira anime music video. Perfect dystopia for this song.
Un super canción, me recierda muchos momentos increíbles con mis amigos de mi adolescencia y las loqueras wowww que canción
Thanks for sharing the lyrics
One of my favorite songs.
you're nervous for your first gyno exam and you've got your legs clenched
Your Gyno-1:10 haha
Haha Starbucks. “Gotta keep ‘em caffeinated!”
I woke up this morning and for some reason this song was in my head out the blue like it was being transmitted to my brain so I had to listen to it only I needed to know all the lyrics so I came here and I'm glad I did. I never knew this song was about I only knew when he said like the latest fashion, tie your own rope,. Disrespect me and keep em separated that's the only thing I knew this song said.
This song should be the theme song for us ,for the conorovirus pandemic.
While this is an awesome song, I have to disagree. The song you’re looking for is “This Year” by the mountain goats
Exactly !
For the cordelian pandemix. Please talk the right sentence.
That's why I'm here! This song fits what's going on...
😂🤣 so true
Awesome song
this is how I feel with my two girls.. they fight. well my oldest child fights with the youngest.. the youngest looks up to the oldest and the oldest really wants her away! but when they get along it's a miracle!
Your comment sounds like one of those riddles where they don't give you enough data
I know that this is late but me and my sister are the same way, we may not get along all the time but if someone were to ever pick on my younger sister that kid is dead, I would do anything to keep her safe. Even though they fight with eachother I'm sure that they'll do the same and once their older they might just get along better
I feel bad for your oldest. Bet the younger started shit more often than you realized
2020 tune!
perfect today for covid 19 social distancing lol
Always liked this song, but had zero clue it was about gangs because I got about half the lyrics. Thanks for the full monty.
What a great song.
This along with bad to the bone. And symphony of destruction was ma jams..
Then came the 80's music. Oh my how life changed
This song causes me to do interpretive dancing while driving. Potentially dangerous, but positively entertaining.
Same
Thank You 🙏
I said FUCK NO
The social distancing song.
No, it's not. Listen to the words of this song. It has happened and is still happening. Maybe you should try thinking of it in terms of "kid with gun, colors and the racist motivator" ah, keep it/them separated. Duh
Noreen Annuzzi r/woosh. Also, the “keep ‘em separated” bit was actually inspired by Holland’s experience with hot liquids in a lab. The rest of the song was about the gang violence he witnessed around his school. (Btw the song is actually named “come out and play” not “keep ‘em separated” in case you didn’t know.)
When the Crip's + Blood's were working the school's and indoctrinating ANYONE....Or having minor's killing the competition with impunity.
@@bickeringstone6284 I was listening to that the most after all the other words to the song. Come out and play. I like that 😊 for some reason. I don't like violence however, I agree with standing up for yourself.
Yes true but that us not what the song is about
When this came out my oldest daughter (3), sang….
Hey, gotta get the supper ready!
I've been looking for this song for a month at least, and the only thing I could say was "there's a guy with a kinda gruff voice who goes (gruff voice) gonna na na ba na" but I don't know what he says"
Just heard some guy say 'gotta keep em separated' and about got whiplash looking at him.
Schools in Alabama before 1963:
“Gotta keep ‘em separated.”
For a few years my best friend thought this was a protest song about the apartheid...
One of my 2020 New Years Eve playlist songs 🎉
You know this is called “Come Out And Play” right?
Listened to it in 1993, this hasn't lost a spark in 30 years....
I love rock and roll!😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃
LOVE it
This video was off the chain I love it soo much
Perfect song for the covid-19 going on right now!!!
All of the other kids with the pumped up kicks can never out-run this song.
The official song of Brexit.
Mr. White hahah I see what you did there
Well this comment didn't age well.
ScoutBane lol, we still haven’t fucking left
Literally about the violent wave of gang crime over California
Brexit has finally happened
As a black guy that went to a white high school in the 90s I have to say me and my homeboys used to laugh our asses off when yall would get into formation to this song during the school dances. Yall took this song serious. We had to get out the way and wait for Montell Jordan to come on. 😅
0:30 - 0:41
Surfing music
It's clearly a rap song.
It's actually played in a song but I can't think of the name of it to me it sounds like something that would be played on beaches or makes me think of the 1950's. If anyone can help me identifiy the song you guys would be awesome.
Sadendao Actually it wasn't just found out it's called Wipe Out by The Surfaris.
😂😂👽✌Loved it
WOW! I never really knew the lyrics--just liking the music (that guitar sound that reminds me of Pulp Fiction). I would have never guessed the meaning of lyrics
Am I the only one that remembers the, like, 5 seconds this song was on a movie called Bubble Boy?
+Merida Gould that scene always makes me laugh so hard
YES
Jam this tune loud these boys rock
"Take him out" sounds like drink your milk.
Damn you. Now I can't stop hearing it.
it does xD
Because of the chorus, that's what I thought it was. :P
fuck you
malthael the angel of death
Love you, sweetie.