Blink 182: Stay Together for the Kids

'Stay Together for the Kids' by Blink 182

Good social commentary about the selfishness of our age in terms of divorce when couples have children...

'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.
If a stupid poem could fix this home
I'd read it every day.

'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.

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 every day:
We get along so why can't they?
If this is what he wants and this is what
she wants,
Then why is there so much pain?

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.'




'What's my Age Again?' by Blink 182

'I never want to act my age... What's my age again? What's my age again???'

It is an amusing song, actually.

'I took her out: it was a Friday night.
I wore cologne to get the feeling right.
We started making out, and she took off my pants,
But then I turned on the TV...

And thats about the time she walked away from me.
Nobody likes you when you're 23,
And are still more amused by TV shows.
What the hell is ADD?
My friends say I should act my age...
What's my age again?
What's my age again?

And later on, on the drive home,
I called her mom from a pay phone:
I said I was the cops
And your husbands in jail,
This state looks down on sodomy.

And thats about the time that bitch hung up on me.
Nobody likes you when you're 23,
And are still more amused by prank phone calls:
What the hell is Call ID?
My friends say I should act my age...
What's my age again?
What's my age again?

And thats about the time she walked away from me.
Nobody likes you when you're 23,
And you still act like you're in Freshman year.
What the hell is wrong with me?
My friends say I should act my age...
What's my age again?
What's my age again?

And thats about the time that she broke up with me,
No one should take themselves so seriously.
With many years to go and fall in line,
Why would you wish that on me?
I never want to act my age...
What's my age again?
What's my age again?'



'Dumpweed' by Blink 182

'It's understood, I said it many ways:
Too scared to run, I'm too scared to stay.
I said I'd leave, but I could never leave her,
If I did, you know I'd never cheat her
But this I ask, it's what I want to know:
How would you feel if I should choose to go.
Another guy, you think it'd be unlikely,
Another guy, you think he'd want to fight me.

She's a dove, she's a fuckin' nightmare:
Unpredictable, it's my mistake to stay here.
On the go and it's way too late to play:
I need a girl that I can train.

I heard it once, I'm sure I heard it twice,
My dad used to give me all of his advice.
He would say, you got to turn your back and run now;
Come on son, you haven't got a chance now.

She's a dove, she's a fuckin' nightmare:
Undpredictable, it was my mistake to stay here.
On the go and it's way too late to play:
I need a girl that I can train.

I need a girl that I can train,
I need a girl that I can train:
Turn your back and run now,
You haven't got a chance now.'