Raven

You gotta keep 'em separated



Like the latest fashion

Like a spreading disease

The kids are strappin' on their way to the classroom

Gettin' 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 disrespectin' me?

Take him out

You gotta keep 'em separated

Hey, 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 thousand before

No one's getting smarter

No one's learning 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 disrespectin' 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, don't pay no mind

If you're under 18, you won't be doing any time

Hey! Come out and play



It goes down the same as the thousand before

No one's getting smarter

No one's learning 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 talkin' back to me?

Take him out

You gotta keep 'em separated

Hey! Man, you disrespectin' me?

Take him out

You gotta keep 'em separated

Hey, don't pay no mind

If you're under 18, you won't be doing any time

Hey! Come out and play