When you take a minute in the middle of the day that you're in to just chill?
Those are the breaks.
And when you're risking your neck for a race you could never win?
Remember, throw on the brakes.
And what's in between the beats and the bass, again?
Oh, yes, those are the breaks.
Yeah, it sucks when everything sucks but you know what?
Yup, those are the breaks.

Nobody's perfect,
but nothing on planet Earth is so stop searching.
I'm not worried bout that, already buried that hatchet,
but I've not forgot the lesson that I learned from it.
I'll be about the Tao if it's the last thing
I ever figure out how to do, it's all worth it.
Follow Jah word with it: flow like the water in the riverbed,
grow like the herbs in the nursery - getting up.
Enough of this worthlessness, I'm coming back with strong workmanship
that's on point like a pencil or Zerzan is:
it's just words but it forces y'all to think, don't it?
What I said? Everything gets better, get it in your head.
Never forget it. Remember it until the day that you're dead.
Contentment ain't complacency.
We can get free and still dream sweet when we lay in the bed.
Peace within is common among winners of wars,
so I remain calm in the middle of storms.
And it's not like I never lost nothing, on the contrary.
I'm just not focused on keeping scores.

CHORUS:
Because we've all got problems, and sobbing ain't gon' stop 'em;
those are the breaks.
This is for the optimists in all of us. Consider this the words of the gospel:
those are the breaks.

It's like you're playing pool:
the frustration gon' make you want to change the rules,
but you always gotta keep your cool,
even if you just sank the 8-ball when you had aimed for the cue.
It's a shame, true, but it's all a game, dude;
you look like a fool but who could you complain to?
You can only blame yourself, which is just as well.
Trace the anger. It never leads to somebody else, but misery wants company,
so sometimes we might pick a fight with another just to make up,
because we all need comforting - but what we done to deserve this?
Nothing, that's the way that it goes. I just shrug when
the cookies crumble, cause it all had to happen how it happened, man,
what you think you gon' do?
I ain't a fatalist, but I'd say that fate exists.
I only fear God and try to stay humble.

CHORUS

Yeah, it sucks when everything sucks but you know what?
Yup, those are the breaks.
So if you're stuck in a rut and about to give up,
just throw on the breaks.