The Offspring - Come Out And Play

Il testo e il video della canzone Come Out And Play del gruppo The Offspring.

“Come Out And Play” è la traccia numero 7 di “Smash”, terzo album del gruppo “The Offspring”. Pubblicato nel 1994, questa canzone è il primo singolo estratto dall’album. The Offspring è un gruppo musicale punk rock statunitense formatosi a Garden Grove, California, nel 1984. Sono spesso citati per aver contribuito a reinterpretare le prime sonorità punk rock in chiave moderna negli anni ‘90. La formazione attuale del gruppo è formata da Brian “Dexter” Holland(voce, chitarra), Kevin “Noodles” Wasserman(chitarra, voce d’accompagnamento), Greg Kriesel(basso, voce d’accompagnamento), Pete Parada(batteria) e Todd Morse(chitarra, voce d’accompagnamento). L’album “Smash” ha raggiunto la posizione numero 4 nella classifica “Billboard 200” e la posizione numero 1 nella “Heatseeker’s Chart”. “Come Out And Play” ha raggiunto la posizione numero 1 sulla “Billboard Modern Rock Tracks”. La canzone affronta il problema delle pistole e della violenza delle gang giovanili dentro i campus universitari.

Testo
You gotta keep’m separated

They’re like the latest fashion
They’re like a spreading disease
The kids are strappin’ on their way to the classroom
Getting weapons with the greatest of ease
The gangs stake out 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 x3

Hey, man you talkin’ back to me
Take him out

You gotta keep’em separated
Hey, man you disrespecting me
take him out

You gotta keep’em separated
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 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 disrespecting me
take him out

You gotta keeep’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 disrespecting me
take him out

You gotta keeep’em separated
Hey, don’t pay no mind
If your under 18 you won’t be doing any time
Hey, come out and play

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