STAY TOGETHER FOR THE KIDS

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"'Stay Together for the Kids'" is a song by the pop-punk band, Blink-182 from their record ''Take Off Your Pants and Jacket''. Tom DeLonge, who plays the guitar and sings the choruses, wrote this song about his parents' divorce during his teen years.

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Video

The band originally started shooting the video for the song on Monday September 10, 2001, and originally featured the band playing in a derelict house - a literal broken home - which was hit by a wrecking ball and fell apart during the song's progression. The next day when they went to finish the video, the 9-11 attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City occurred, and both the band and director Samuel Bayer opted to re-shoot the video, as they felt the images of the house coming down were too similar to the images of the attacks in New York. They re-shot the video several weeks later, with a similar theme although this time the house used wasn't on the verge of falling down (intense winds instead swept through the band's performance during the song's chorus), and didn't come down during the video. They used the same extras in both versions of the videos. The original version of the video is only available on a few of the band's DVD releases although it can be easily found on the Internet, and now the original has started to be shown on music channel Scuzz. The scene where the house is hit by the wrecking ball can be seen in the video for Not Now, which had received significant airplay, despite the very scene for being the reason why the video was re-shot.

Track listing

#"Stay Together for the Kids"
#"The Rock Show" (Live)
#"Anthem Part 2" (Live)
#"First Date" (Live)
#"Carousel" (Live)
#Video: "First Date"
#Video: "Stay Together for the Kids"

★ All live tracks recorded at The Tweeter Centre, Chicago on June 6, 2001.

External links

★ Watch "Stay Together for the Kids": Original Version on Youtube