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"Come Out and Play"
Single by The Offspring from the album Smash
Released	1994
Format	Vinyl and CD
Recorded	1994
Genre	Punk rock
Length	03:17
Label	Epitaph
Writer	Dexter Holland
Producer	Thom Wilson
The Offspring singles chronology
"Blackball" / "I'll Be Waiting" (1987) "Come Out and Play (Keep 'Em Separated)" (1994) "Self Esteem" (1994)

"Come Out and Play (Keep 'Em Separated)" is a song by California punk rock group the Offspring. It was released in 1994 and was the first single from their third album Smash. This song is considered to be their breakthrough song, as it received widespread radio play. The first part of the song's title, "Come Out and Play", is believed to be a reference to a line in the movie The Warriors.

1. "Come Out and Play"
2. "Session"
3. "Come Out and Play (Acoustic Version)"

The song discusses gun and gang violence in the context of a school campus.^{[original research?]} The lyrics proclaim, "Your never ending spree of death and violence and hate is going to tie your own rope."

The song's instrumental version is well-known for a guitar solo which sounds like a sitar.

• The Offspring themselves made a middle-eastern styled instrumental version of the song. It can be heard at the end of Smash and on the single for "Come Out and Play".

• This song was covered by Richard Cheese on his 2000 album, Lounge Against the Machine and again released on the 2006 album, The Sunny Side of the Moon.

• The song is also played on wind instruments in the movie Click.

• Four parodies of the song were made. "Keep her penetrated" by Blowfly, "Come Out and Pray" by ApologetiX, Wrong Foot Amputated by Bob Rivers (often mistakenly credited to "Weird Al" Yankovic), and Laundry Day which actually is by Weird Al and was written for his Bad Hair Day tour. The song is officially unreleased, however several recordings from live concerts have surfaced. The song was referred to in the X-Files episode, "Little Green Men".

• This track is also notable for being the entrance music of the wrestler Raven during his tenures in Extreme Championship Wrestling, and Ring of Honor, and also a remixed instrumental version for his first TNA theme.
• It was featured in the movies Monkeybone and Bubble Boy.
• The guitar hook is also alluded to by Me First and the Gimme Gimmes on Ruin Jonny's Bar Mitzvah in the song "Hava Nagila."

• Song review, All Music Guide