(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 [bad word]  
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: 
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.]