(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