(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!)
Were 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!)
Were the survivors, yes: the black survivors!
Yes, were 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!
Were the survivors, yes: the black survivors!
Tell you what: were the survivors, yeah! - the black survivors, yeah!
Were 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
Weve gotta live up, wo now, wo now!
Cause the fathers time has come
Some people put the best outside
Some people keep the best inside
Some people cant stand up strong
Some people won't wait for long
Na-na-na na, na-na-na!
Were the survivors
In this age of technological inhumanity (black survival)
Scientific atrocity (survivors)
Atomic misphilosophy (black survival)
Nuclear misenergy (survivors)
Its a world that forces lifelong insecurity (black survival)
Na-na-na na, na-na-na!
Were the survivors, yeah!
Were the survivors!
Yes, the black survivors!
Were 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, yall! (survivors)