How can you be sitting there    Telling me that you care   That you care   When everytime I look around   The people suffer in suffering   In everyway. In everywhere      Na-na-na-na-na   We're the survivors; yes, the black survival      I tell you what   Some people got everything   Some poeple got nothing   Some people got hopes and dreams   Some people got ways and means      Na-na-na-na-na   We're the survivors; yes, the black survival   Yes we're the survivors like   Daniel out of the lions' den, survivors, survivors      So my brethren, my sisthren   Which way will we choose   We better hurry, oh hurry woe now   'Cause we got no time to lose      Some people got facts and claims   Some peole got pride and shame   Some people got the plots and schemes   Some people got no aim it seems      Na-na-na-na-na   We're the survivors; yes, the black survival   We're the survivors; yes, the black survival   We're the survivors like shadrach, meshach and abednego   Thrown in the fire but never get burn      So my brethren, my sisthren   The preaching and talking is done   We gotta live up woe now, woe 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   We're the survivors; a black survival   In this age of technological inhumanity   We're the survivors black survival   Scientific atrocity, we're the survivors   Atomic mis-philosophy, we're the survivors   Nuclear mis-energy   It's a world that forces lifelong insecurity   All together now we're the survivors   Yes, the black survival   A good man is never honoured in his own country, black survival   Nothing change, nothing strange   Nothing change, nothing strange   We got to survive, we've got to survive   But to live as one equal in the eyes of the almighty