(Ow-ow-ow-ow, ow, ow-ow-ow-ow), yeah, yeah, yeah!
How can you be sitting there, telling me that you
care?
When everytime I look around, the people suffer in
suffering,
In every way, in everywhere.
Na-na-na-na-na, (na-na-na-na).
Chorus:
We're the survivors, yes,
the black survival. I tell you what;
Some people got everything,
some people got nothing.
Some people got hopes and dreams,
some people got ways and means.
Na-na-na-na-na, (na-na-na-na).
Chorus:
We're the survivors, yes, the black survival,
Yes we're the survivors,
ike Daniel out of the lions' den,
Survivors, survivors.
So my brethren, my sisthren, which way will
we choose?
We better hurry, oh hurry, woah now,
'cos we got no time to lose.
Some people got facts and claims
Some people got pride and shame
Some people got the plots and schemes
Some people got no aim it seems
chorus
Like Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego
(Black survivors)
Thrown in the fire, but-a never get burn
So I Idren, I-sistren
The preaching and talking is done
We've gotta live up, wo now, wo now!
Because the Father's time has come
Some people put the best outside
Some people keep the best inside
Some people can't stand up strong
Some people won't wait for long
chorus
In this age of technological inhumanity
(Black survival)
Scientific atrocity (survivors)
Atomic mis-philosophy (Black survival)
Nuclear mis-energy (survivors)
It's a world that forces lifelong insecurity
(Black survival)
All together now
chorus
A good man is never honoured (survivors)
In his own country (Black survival)
Nothing change, nothing strange (survivors)
Nothing change, nothing strange (Black survivors)
We got to survive, you all! (survivors)