Are you ready?
You think you can tell us what to do?
You think you can tell us what to wear?
You think that you're better?
Well, you better get ready
Bow to the masters
Break it down!
Degenerate into something, fool
We just got tired of doin' what ya told us to do
That's the breaks boy, yeah
That's the breaks, little man
Break it down!
D-GENERATION X!
D-GENERATION!
You think you can tell me what to do?
You know who you're talkin' to?
Well, you'd better get used to the way the ball bounces
I've seen what you got, it measures in ounces
But that's the breaks boy, yeah
That's the breaks little man
Break it down!
D-GENERATION X!
D-GENERATION!
You think you're a big man? (Ha ha ha ha...)
Treat you like you're a little man
Yeah! Break it down!
Yo, tell me what it's like to be half a man
It must break your heart to see what I am
But that's the breaks boy, yeah
That's the breaks, little man
Break it down!
D-GENERATION X!
D-GENERATION!
You think you can tell me what to do?
You know who you're talking to?
Just stop wanting me to be someone else
Put it away like a book on a shelf
That you can't read boy
Yeah, that you can't read little man