(Ow, ow-ow-ow-ow!
Ow, ow-ow-ow-ow!)
Yeah, yeah, yeah!

How can you be sitting there
Telling me that you care -
That you care?

When every time I look around,
The people suffer in the suffering
In everyway, in everywhere.


Say: na-na-na-na-na (na-na, na-na!):
We're the survivors, yes: the Black survivors!

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!):

We're the survivors, yes: the Black survivors!
Yes, we're the survivors, like Daniel out of the lions' den
(Black survivors) Survivors, survivors!

So I Idren, I sistren,
A-which way will we choose?
We better hurry; oh, hurry; oh, hurry; wo, now!

'Cause 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!


Na-na-na-na-na, na-na, na!
We're the survivors, yes: the Black survivors!
Tell you what: we're the survivors, yeah! - the Black survivors,

yeah!
We're the survivors, like Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego
(Black survivors),

Thrown in the fire, but-a never get burn.
So I Idren, I-sistren,
The preaching and talkin' is done;

We've gotta live up, wo now, wo now! -
'Cause 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.


(Na-na-na-na-na!) Na-na-na, na-na-na na!
We're the survivors

In this age of technological inhumanity (Black survival),
Scientific atrocity (survivors),
Atomic misphilosophy (Black survival),

Nuclear misenergy (survivors):
It's a world that forces lifelong insecurity (Black
survival).


Together now:
(Na-na-na-na-na!) Na na-na na na! (Na na-na na na!)

We're the survivors, yeah!
We're the survivors!
Yes, the Black survivors!

We're the survivors:
A good man is never honoured (survivors)
in his own yountry (Black survival).

Nothing change, nothing strange (survivors).
Nothing change, nothing strange (Black survivors).
We got to survive, y'all! (survivors) - [fadeout]