Parents and teachers could never understand
My disdain for their authority
Career and a future didn't interest me
I'd rather skate instead, I need to be free!

I'll skate or, I'll skate or, I'll skate or die!

Breaking my back just to make ends meet
A slave to my job for forty hours a week
But when 5 o'clock rolls around
I'm taking my board and I'm hitting the streets

I'll skate or, I'll skate or, I'll skate or die!