(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 every way, in everywhere
Na-na-na-na-na (na-na, na-na!)
We're the survivors
Ye, 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
Ye, the Black survivors
Ye
We're the survivors
Ye, the Black survivors
Like Daniel out of the lions' den
(Black survivors) Survivors, survivors
So I Idren, I sistren
(So my brother, my sister)
Which way will we choose
We better hurry, oh, hurry, oh, hurry, whoa, now
Because 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-na!)
We're the survivors
(Ow, ow-ow-ow-ow!
We're the survivors
Ow, ow-ow-ow-ow!)
We're the survivors
Wen yuh talk bou’ fight den yuh talk bou me
(When you talk about fight then you talk about me)
Born surviva
(Born survivor)
From inna mi mada belly
(From in my mother’s belly)
Bruk barriers revolutionary
(Break barriers revolutionary)
A jus’ mi mentality cyaah hol’ mi dung wid slavery
(It’s just my mentality can’t hold me down with slavery)
Like di great Bob Marley mi emancipated
(Like the great Bob Marley I'm emancipated)
Nuh incarcerated
(Not incarcerated)
Carry mi dung [?]
(Carry me down [?])
[?]
Mek mi elevate it
(Make me elevate it)
Yow, a jus’ eh music of a black oman
(Yo, it’s just the music of a black woman)
Mi seh it loud an’ proud
(I say it loud and proud)
Mi affi win yaah man
(I have to win man)
Luk pon mi gud mi issa soso vibe
(Look on me good I'm a soso vibe)
Dat’s why dem sen’ fi di bad gyol di dun up dis [?]
(That’s why they sen for the bad girl to done up this [?])
Rraaaa
(Ow, ow-ow-ow-ow!
We're the survivors
Ow, ow-ow-ow-ow!)
We're the survivors
Aye watch ya nuh
(Hey watch here now)
Aye falla me nuh
(Hey follow me now)
Ahh hear waah gwaan nuh
(Ahh hear what’s going on now)
I be hunting like a Tiga
(I be hunting like a Tiger)
Expirate of a Spida
(Expirate of a Spider)
In di street survival like a Bus or a Taxi driva
(In the street survival like a Bus or a Taxi driver)
Or betta yet a Yeng Yeng rida
(Or better yet a Yeng Yeng rider)
Caah yuh affi skilla dan Magiva
(Cause you have to skiller than Magiva)
Fi survive dem time yah
(To survive these time here)
Aye watch a style yah
(Hey watch this style here)
Nuff a dem juvenile yah
(A lot of these juvenile here)
Dem a hunt dem kile yah
(They are hunting their kile here)
Young an’ restless running breathless like a quarta mile
(Young and’ restless running breathless like a quarter mile)
A tun provida caah di pot fi boila
(Turning provider cause the pot should boil)
Wi lay di tracks like how dem lay dem tile yah
(We lay the tracks like how they lay these tile here)
Na-na-na-na-na (na-na, na-na!)
We're the survivors
Ye, the Black survivors
For generations they had us focus on elocution
That was a distraction
So we wouldn’t notice the many intrusions
But Bob Marley dun gi wi di Soun’ track
(But Bob Marley already give us the Sound track)
Fi di revolution
(For the revolution)
An’ now eh load up
(An’ now it’s load up)
Ready fi bun dem whole up
(Ready to burn them whole up)
Straight solutions
Not only out run dem
(Not only out run them)
Wi out smart an’ outgrown dem
(We out smart and outgrown them)
Issa fight fi stay alive
(It’s a fight to stay alive)
But wi try fi mek eh bun dem
(But we try to make it burn them)
Wi si weh dem a try
(We see what they are trying)
Suh wi get out from among dem
(So we get out from among them)
Cause di air weh dem a breathe
(Cause the air that they are breathing)
Cyaah touch inna wi lung dem
(Can’t touch in our lungs)
Education, deprivation
Turned out to be a blessing
Lies, misinformation
Weaved into every lesson
Wi paranoia tell wi longtime nuh trust it
(Our paranoia told us longtime don’t trust it)
An’ now dem a wanda why wi buss it
(And now they wonder why we burst it)
But mek dem know dem cyaah stop we
(But make them know they can’t stop we)
Cause we are
We're the survivors
Mhmm
We are the Black survivors
Weh Marley tell dem
(What Marley tell them)
The Black survivors
(Ow, ow-ow-ow-ow!
We're the survivors
Ow, ow-ow-ow-ow!)
We're the survivors
Skill wid it, buil’ wid it
(Skill with it, build with it)
Lyrics mi will in it
(Lyrics my will’s in it)
Mi lungs dem naav nuh wind in it
(My lungs don’t have no wind in it)
Gimi di riddim an’ den mi killing it
(Give me the riddim and then I'm killing it)
Willingly
In the beginning
There was a pyramid, still in it
Black surviva, black magiva
Blacka dan Macka Diamond
(Blacker than Macka Diamond)
Black foreva
(Black forever)
In the Black Starline
I'm the black surviva
Full black wid mi diamond socks like Iba
(Full black with my diamond socks like Iba)
Iba neat an’ now di race a wake up wid a [?]
(Iba neat and now the race waking up with a [?])
An’ know di place a shake up
(And know the place shaking up)
If yuh violate
(If you violate)
[?]
Revolution like Haiti and Jamaica
Kabaka P mi guh pop off a piece a lyrics
(Kabaka P I go pop off a piece of lyrics)
So fast like Asafa feet
An’ di way mi suh skill wid di pedal
(And the way I'm so skill with the pedal)
Like seh mi ave seven finga like Cassava leaf
(Like I have seven finger like Cassava leaf)
(Ow, ow-ow-ow-ow!
We're the survivors
Ow, ow-ow-ow-ow!)
We're the survivors
Who dem a try stifle?
(Who are they trying to stifle?)
Tell dem seh di Marleys’ nuh idle
(Tell them that the Marleys’ not idle)
[?]
Wi verse dem shot jus’ like a Rifle
(Our Verses shot just like a Rifle)
Dat’s word tuh di bible
(That’s word to the bible)
An’ tell mi where yuh hear di lies tuh?
(And tell me where you hear the lies too?)
Sen luv tuh wi rivals
(Send love to our rivals)
Caah dem know what is survival
(Cause they know what is survival)
Dem still our [?]
(They’re still our [?], enlightens through our music title)
Dem message is vital
(Them message is vital)
Wi pree survival from wi arrive
(We pree survival from we arrive)
Old school [?]
But love weh di new school have [?]
But love what the new school have [?] }}
But guess what pree love not war
I neva gone fight yuh
(I never gone fight you)
Na-na-na-na-na (na-na, na-na!)
We're the survivors
Hear wah?
(Hear what?)
[?]
Nuff vex true Jo Merse pon di beat
(A lot vex because Jo Merse on the beat)
[?]
Suh wi bad lyrically from mi yey deh a mi knee
(So we bad lyrically from my eye there at my knee)
Wah duh some wannabe
(What do some pretenders?)
Wanna be one a we
(Wanna be one of us)
Coulda drop hit chune and dweet a one a week
(Could drop hit chune and do it a one a week)
Hard work inna fi wi winning streak
(Hard work in our winning streak)
(That’s right)
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
The Black survivors
