Stay Together for the Kids

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"Stay Together for the Kids"

Single by blink-182
from the album Take off Your Pants and Jacket
Released	February 19, 2002
Format	CD
Recorded	July 7, 2001
Genre	Pop-punk
Length	??
Producer(s)	??
blink-182 singles chronology
"First Date" (2001)	"Stay Together for the Kids" (2002)	"Feeling This" (2003)

"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, wrote this song about his parents' divorce during his teen years.

[edit] Video

The band originally started shooting the video for the song on 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, 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.