Blink 182 - Stay Together For The Kids Song Meanings
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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 ri...
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anonymous
June 11th, 2006 09:22PM
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This song is pretty easy to grasp the concept of:
"So here's your holiday, hope you enjoy it this time"
The 'holiday' is the divorce, and the singer sarcastically hopes they 'enjoy' it, though it probably won't be any better
"You gave it all away, it was mine"
This refers to 'giving away' the family by splitting up, the family was his and he is angry about this
"So when you're dead and gone, will you remember this night?"
'This night' is the night where the parents probably had the last fight leading up to the divorce, and the singer is basically saying that they probably won't even remember what happened (so its 'pointless')
"Twenty years now lost, its not right"
Pretty obvious, they were married for 20 years and now its all down the drain, its not right
The 1st & 2nd verses are pretty self explanitory
And in my opinion, Angels and Airwaves is a really good band. Its completely different from Blink 182, and some people may not like that. But that's what it is, DIFFERENT. You can't compare the two just because they share a singer. And Tom's personality is still there, being in a different band doesn't change that. You people just have to realize that he's a grown man now, with a wife and kids (well, she's pregnant with his 2nd child, a boy now), and he can't be silly & sing about sophomoric topics anymore.
cherryxbliss
October 31st, 2005 04:45PM
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Yes, this seems obvious. It's about a destructive home, where they parents can't stop arguing, and the kids just sit by and watch. Looking back, a grown-up kid (Mark Hoppus) realizes that it wasn't all his fault, as he thought as a child.
anonymous
November 15th, 2005 05:35AM
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Tom wrote this song in his driveway when he was 16. His parents had just told them they were getting a divorce, and he went outside and sat in his car and wrote the lyrics to this song.
davidforbes
February 11th, 2006 04:50PM
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Well the third guys the only one who knows what he's saying its not mark its tom delonge's parents divorce. He says it on urethra chronicles
anonymous
February 16th, 2006 07:30PM
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As the last guy said, Tom says in the Chronicles 2 video that it's about a day when he was sitting in his driveway and his family basically just fell apart.
fenderchik421
May 2nd, 2006 08:18PM
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Yeah, I really think Blink-182 should've stayed together for the kids..I cried a little when I saw the "Not Now" video....They're were and still are my favorite band...They'll get together again though.....Hopefully.
Angels And Airwaves is supposed to be the best thing that happens to rock. What Tom doesn't know is that Blink-182 was already one of the best things to happen to rock.
anonymous
May 10th, 2006 06:46PM
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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.
anonymous
May 16th, 2006 02:12AM
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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."
PaulJohnGeorgeRingo4
June 23rd, 2006 10:31PM
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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)
anonymous
July 10th, 2006 05:44PM
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This song is about the destruction of a home and a divorce ( divorce sucks )
anonymous
November 15th, 2006 03:37PM
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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
Angelmisty
January 9th, 2007 05:56AM
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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.
anonymous
April 2nd, 2007 10:59PM
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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.
SL339
June 20th, 2007 01:11PM
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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.
anonymous
June 23rd, 2007 03:07AM
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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..
anonymous
July 31st, 2007 08:26PM
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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
anonymous
November 25th, 2007 11:57AM
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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.
anonymous
March 28th, 2008 08:16PM
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I agree with a lot of you. A&A is different, but Tom still does have his old "pinched whine" voice in some songs.
anonymous
May 19th, 2008 06:16AM
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The song is about Tom's parents becoming divorced, It is on Urethra Chronicles II. They just fell apart.
And the idiots who cry about "Why didn't they say for US, I was devostated when they broke up". Your misinterpreting the song and taking it out of context. Let them have their own lives, they took separate paths for a reason. Hate to break it to you, but they're going to keep their life's neutral just to save yours. They had a lot of fun as a band. They've done all the fun things they ever could. The songs about divorce, don't take it out of context. Go listen to some +44 and Angels & Airwaves, their still the same people , but toms got some new haircut! :D
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anonymous
July 17th, 2008 12:02AM
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I love this song and blink 182 there very inspiring I love them they really don't care what everybody else thinks there different and I love that but yeah the song my parents are going through a divorce right at this very moment and my moms having an affair but I love listen to this song and knowing I'm not the only one that's going through a hard time or has went through a hard time and that my favorite band and toms parents got divorce and I really wish that blink would just do one more tour for us kids that need something good in our lives.
tempest
July 26th, 2008 10:01PM
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This is my all time favorite blink 182 song. I don't know my father, but I've seen my mom go through destructive relationships and I thought it was my fault. I know now it wasn't, but I still feel responsible because of how I felt. and the on;y guy that my mom was ever with that seemed like a father left and it was like total destruction of our lives. I couldn't stand the arguing and the fighting and I would sometimes cry because I felt so bad. This song explains the pain of a separation and how much it can change you, even though you are trying so desperately to change it. This song is amazing. :)
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