Bob Marley - Survival
(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.]