Blink-182: Stay Together For The Kids Meaning

Song Released: 2002

Stay Together For The Kids Lyrics

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...

1. anonymous

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   Mar 28th 2008 !⃝

   I agree with a lot of you. A&A is different, but Tom still does have his old "pinched whine" voice in some songs.
2. anonymous

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   Nov 25th 2007 !⃝

   It's about how children's homes get destroyed by their parents being divorced. It says it in the video. And Yes, Tom did write this song in his driveway when he was 16 when his parents told him they are getting a divorce and then everything went hectic.
3. anonymous

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   Jul 31st 2007 !⃝

   My friends parents divorced recently, shortly after I left his home that they divorced, I got a call on my cell while driving his father said my friend shot himself. He blamed himself for his son's suicide. When I hear 'this house is haunted' I think of him
4. anonymous

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   Jun 23rd 2007 !⃝

   I agree with others, and I think this is about Tom's parents breaking up, getting a devorce, fighting. Apparently Tom wrote this song on a driveway or something after his parents fought or told him they were splitting up. Some of the song lyrics speak to me because after about a year of a rough patch were my parents seperated and my mum dated this other person, and they got back together recently, but I think my dads moving out for good soon..
5. SL339

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   Jun 20th 2007 !⃝

   My parents are not divorced but they fight a lot so I love this song. I write poetry also so I love the lyric "If a stupid poem could fix this home I'd read it every day" When Blink182 was making the music video they were going to show a wrecking ball knocking down a house as a metaphor for a ruined house but the next day 9/11 happened and they thought the idea of a building falling down might offend people so they re-shot the video and changed it.

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6. anonymous

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   Apr 2nd 2007 !⃝

   Tom wrote this song not mark, and he wrote it because when he was 18 his parents divorced and he was sitting on his drive way when it all happened.
7. Angelmisty

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   Jan 9th 2007 !⃝

   It's about when Tom Delonge was 16 his parents said they were getting divorced after he just sat in his car cause his life was falling apart. It says in Ureatha Chronicles 2 and in a Kerrang! interview. There's 2 videos because they shot 1 with a house kinda falling down but it was a day before 9/11 so they said it was too much like the scenes on tv. You can see the video on Chronicles 2.
8. anonymous

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   Nov 15th 2006 !⃝

   Your all thick if you actually listen to what mark and tom say you will understand! Tom has even said himself it was when his mom and dad split, and he realized that his life was changing in major way, and couldn't see how they waste all the time they were married
9. anonymous

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   Oct 17th 2006 !⃝

   Blink shuld hav never broken up. Theyre music was he best.
   I'm gonna hate the day that they stop playing their videoclips, because they were hilarious.

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10. anonymous

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    Oct 16th 2006 !⃝

    I agree that blink should have stayed together for the kids. But I totally love +44,the transplants,and angels and airwaves.
    
    
    
    Macayla

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11. anonymous

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    Jul 10th 2006 !⃝

    This song is about the destruction of a home and a divorce ( divorce sucks )
12. PaulJohnGeorgeRingo4

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    Jun 23rd 2006 !⃝

    Great song!! Might be my favorite on the CD too!...The title mainly tells you what the song is about...the home...the divorce...not good...I went through my parents divorce and it probably was the worse thing that ever happened in my life. everyone has the idea what this song is about...tom is my favorite in the band...i think his writing of lyrics is way more better than mark's I must say (tom has deeper meaning in his songs)
13. anonymous

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    May 16th 2006 !⃝

    Yeah, Tom does say it in urethra chronicles and yeah, you're right, A&A suck I don't like them. I listened to a song, got halfway and just thought it wasn't right. Tom isn't right, it isn't him A&A, Plus 44 and any other band they're going to make isn't gonna be right. They'll look back in 20 years and say "it's not right."
14. anonymous

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    May 10th 2006 !⃝

    I believe that this song is about a kid whos parents always fight and yell at each other. The kid just sits and listens to it thinking its his fault.
    The Line: "Will You, Remember this night. Twenty Years Now Lost. Its not right" refers to the night his parents fought and ended up divorced. The kid is saying that its not right that his parents would fight and let the kid watch and cause him all the trauma.
15. anonymous

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    May 6th 2006 !⃝

    Yeah, I've only heard one song from Angels and Airwaves but I don't think it's very good. It's like Tom is trying too hard to make his voice NOT sound like it did in blink 182. His voice is too deep. And Angels and Airwaves just don't seem FUN. What about songs like 'What's my age again?'?
    
    Hopefully blink gets back together and they'll be better than ever. Tom will realise he left a good thing behind.

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