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Artist: Rage Against The Machine
Canonical path: /rage-against-the-machine/degeneration-x
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Degeneration X
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Degeneration X
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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
You bow to the masters...
Break it down!
D-Generate into something fool
We just got tired of doing what you told us to do
That's a break boy (Yeah...)
That's a break little man
Break it down!
D-Generation X! (2x)
You think you can tell me what to do?
You know who you're talking to?
Well you better get used
To the way the ball bounces
I see what you got
It measures in ounces
Well that's a break boy (Yeah...)
That's a break little man
Break it down!
D-Generation X! (2x)
Think you're a big man?
[laughs] I'll treat you like you're a little man
Yo tell me what it's like
To be half a man
It must break your heart
To see what I am (What?)
But that's a break boy (Yeah...)
That's a break little man
Break it down!
D-Generation X! (2x)
Think you can tell me what to do?
You know who you're talking to?
Just stop wanting me
To be like someone else
Put it away
Like a book on a shelf
That you can read boy (Yeah...)
That you can read little man
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