Survivor - Robert Cray

Trouble all around me everywhere

There was a time when I didn’t care

Life was a party

That’s all we knew

Now I’m so glad

To be here today

Cause not everybody

Can stand up and say

That they’re a survivor

Survivor

Survivor

You’ve got to choose

If you wanna be a survivor

Survivor

Survivor

Oh, yeah, you’ve got to choose

Some learn

Some don’t

Some live

You know that

Some won’t

And time wil tell

Turn around

Your life of hell

The good old days

Were such a waste of time

You take a little schoolboy

And teach him who to hate

Then you

Send him to the desert?

For the oil near Kuwait?

You try to change a world that

You don’t understand

Now I’m so glad

To be here today

Cause from now

Until forever

And ever yeah

You be lucky if

You can stand up and say

That you’re a survivor

Survivor

Survivor

You’ve got to choose

If you wana be a survivor

Oh, oh, oh

You’ve got to choose

If you wanna be a survivor

You’ve got to choose

Oh, yes

I’m so glad to be here today

I’m so glad

To be a survivor

You’ll have to turn around your life a hell

Can’t change anything you don’t understand

Hmmm, hmmmm

You oughta be glad