the breakdown

break it down! it's not easy being ugly coming up hoping that people would love me as a kid in some cheap sneakers and a backpack try to make a friend and you end up getting laughed at (ha-ha) when i'd try to fit with a clique or pick up a chick a felt like i'd been hit with a brick 'cause all i'd ever get was chills from the cold shoulder hoping this will all change when i grow older but move to today and it's still the same as i try to make a bang in this hip-hop thing see, all i wanna do is rock the mic and i hear there's a jam going off tonight i'm knockin' but i can't get in i'm knock-knockin' but i can't get in i'm knock-knock-knockin' but i can't get in and i can hear the party is about to begin you wanna lock this door well, what are we gonna do (break it down!) you wanna close us out well, what are we gonna do (break it down!) you wanna build this wall well, what are we gonna do (break it down!) you'll have to watch it fall cause what are we gonna do (break it down!) you can't hold us down! we will break you down! you can't hold us down! now i'ma break it down like the berlin wall and give it all i've got until the curtain call einstein, andy and i started the group to get back to the roots and rock retarded loops so here's the scoop, we got signed in '99 two l.p.'s performing overseas tour after tour we'd be jumping on stage straight getting no sleep making minimum wage begging for support from the labels and the press but they'd look right past us and be like “next!” they said our sound won't make it today they don't wanna hear what we're trying to say i'm knockin' but i can't get in i'm knock-knockin' but i can't get in i'm knock-knock-knockin' but i can't get in and i can hear the party is about to begin you wanna lock this door well, what are we gonna do (break it down!) you wanna close us out well, what are we gonna do (break it down!) you wanna build this wall well, what are we gonna do (break it down!) you'll have to watch it fall cause what are we gonna do (break it down!) you can't hold us down! we will break you down! you can't hold us down! we will break you down!