(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/

[*Sleeve notes:
But to live as one equal in the eyes
Of the Almighty.]