Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Survival a.k.a. Black Survivors, artist - Bob Marley.
Date of issue: 31.12.1998
Song language: English
Survival a.k.a. Black Survivors |
(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! |
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'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.] |