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!