Nature of Man

Feelin' kinda lumpy today, going through my list of YouTube Watch Later videos and I notice these two cover the same topic. The first one is animated, I like animated stuff. The second one hit me because I never realized what the song was about.

A Brief Disagreement
Steve Cutts

“Come Out and Play” (The Offspring) Klezmer Cover by Robyn Adele Anderson
Robyn Adele Anderson

Come Out and Play lyrics:

Like the latest fashion

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 their own 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, bash it up, bash it up

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 to 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 keep 'em separated

Hey, man, you talkin' back to 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

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 talking 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

Now that we have our war glasses on, we can see that all the minor wars going on all over the world exude an aura of inevitability.

P. S. I usually don't watch YouTube videos when I encounter them on other blogs, but I add them to the Watch Later list. Eventually I will get around to watching them.