"Stay Together For The Kids" lyrics

"Stay Together For The Kids"

[Mark Hoppus:]
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

[Tom DeLonge:]
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

[Mark Hoppus:]
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 it's what she wants, then why is there so much pain?

[Tom DeLonge:]
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


Thanks to Ruthless Cutie, C-Money for correcting these lyrics.
Writer(s): Travis L Barker, Tom De Longe, Mark Hoppus
This song was released as the third and final single from the album on the 19th of February 2002.
Guitarist Tom DeLonge based these lyrics on his parents' divorce and its effect on him. A wrecking ball, that destroys a house the band performs in in the song's original music video, is a metaphor for divorce.
The original music video for this track had to be re-shot following the 9/11 attacks, because both the band and label thought its imagery was too similar to the collapse of the World Trade Center.
The song peaked at number seven on the US Modern Rock Tracks chart in 2001. It was a hit on rock radio stations in the United States.
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