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Artist: Run DMC
Canonical path: /run-dmc/the-kings
Related lyric paths: 6
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The Kings
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The Kings
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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?
Do you think that yo better?
Well,you betta' get ready
To bow to the masters
Break It Down
D-Generate into something fool
You just got tired of doing what you're told to do
You got the breaks boy Yeah, You got the breaks little man
Break It Down
D-Generation X D-Generation
Do you think you can tell me what to do?
Do you know who your talking to?
Well,Ya betta' get use to the way the ball bounces
I see what ya got it measures in ounces
Thats the breaks boy Yeah, thats the breaks little man
Break It Down
D-Generation X D-Generation
You think your a big man
Ha,Ha,Ha,Ha,Ha
I'll treat you like your a little man
YO,tell me what it's like to be half of a man
Cuz' it'll break yo' heart to feel what it is like
BUT,thats the breaks boy YEAH, thats the breaks little man
Break It Down
D-Generation X D-Generation
Do you think you can tell me what to do?
Do you know who youre 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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