Survival is the struggle to remain alive and living. The term may refer to:
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Raymond Paul "Ray" Mears (born 7 February 1964) is an English woodsman, instructor, author and TV presenter. His TV appearances cover bushcraft and survival techniques, and he is best known for the TV series Ray Mears' Bushcraft, Ray Mears' World of Survival, Extreme Survival, Survival with Ray Mears, Wild Britain with Ray Mears and Ray Mears Goes Walkabout.
Mears grew up in Kenley, Greater London, and the North Downs, where he discovered a countryside abundant with wildlife. Educated at Reigate Grammar School, a co-educational independent school in Reigate, Surrey, he learned to track foxes in the forest at a young age. As a boy, he desired to sleep out on the trail, but unable to afford camping equipment, he resorted to setting up camp using what he could find in his surroundings.
Mears's enthusiasm for his subject, combined with his broad knowledge of survival and the uses which may be made of plants, trees and other natural materials found in woodland, forest or desert, have made him a popular figure in TV broadcasting in the UK.[citation needed] He has travelled extensively across the world for his TV series and has learned survival techniques from the indigenous peoples he has met. In his programmes he demonstrates his knowledge of the wild, how to find food from seeds, berries, roots and other growing things, and how to survive by constructing temporary shelters, fires and canoes from natural materials.
[Instrumental]
I'll never be an angel
I'll never be a saint, it's true
I'm too busy surviving
Whether it's Heaven or Hell
I'm gonna be living to tell
So, here's my story
No risk, no glory
A little up and down and all around
It's all about survival
I'll never be an angel
I'll never be a saint, it's true
I'm too busy surviving
Whether it's Heaven or Hell
I'm gonna be living to tell
So, here's my question
Does your criticism have you
Caught up in what you cannot see?
Well, if you give me respect
Then you'll know what to expect
A little up and down and all around
It's all about survival
Up and down and all around
It's all about survival
I'll never be an angel
I'll never be a saint, it's true
I'm too busy surviving
Whether it's Heaven or Hell
I'm gonna be living to tell
So, here's my story
No risk, no glory
A little up and down and all around
It's all about survival
Up and down and all around
It's all about survival
Up and down and all around
It's all about survival
Up and down and all around
It's all about survival
(Up and down and all around)
I'll never be an angel
(Up and down and all around, survival)
(Up and down and all around)
I'll never be a saint, it's true
(Up and down and all around, survival)
(Up and down and all around)
I'll never be an angel
(Up and down and all around, survival)
(Up and down and all around)
I'll never be a saint, it's true
(Up and down and all around, survival)
(Up and down and all around)
I'll never be an angel
Sunshine is creepin' in
An' somewhere in a field, a life begins
An egg too proud to rape
The beginnin' of a shape of things to come
That starts the run, life has begun, fly fast the gun
The mother flew too late
An' life within the egg was left to fate
Not really knowin' how
The world outside would take it, when it came
And life?s the same, for things we aim, are we to blame?
Don?t doubt the fact there?s life within you
Yesterday?s endings will tomorrow life give you
All that dies, dies for a reason
To put its strength into the seasons
Survival, survival
They take away an' they give you life of their name
The living?s right to live, it?s all that we need to show
The living?s right to know
The egg breaks, all is out
The crawlin' bird begins to scream an' shout
Where is the parent bird
A loneliness arose an' heard its name ringing
For lives begin, survival win, survival sin
So soon the evening comes
An' with it runs the achin' fear of hate
Could someone still remain
Who thinks he still could gain by escapin' fate?
It?s much too late don?t underrate, appreciate
Don?t doubt the fact there?s life within you
Yesterday?s endings will tomorrow life give you
All that dies, dies for a reason
To put its strength into the seasons
Survival, survival
They take away an' they give you life of their name
The living?s right to live, it?s all that we need to give
The living?s right to know
Survival, survival
They take away and they give you life of their name
The living?s right to live, it?s all that we need to give
The living?s right to know, it?s all that we have to show
An' we?re all goin', an' we?re all goin'
An' we?re all goin', an' we?re all goin'
I'll survive you, I will survive you
Well, it's too late, I know, to change the way we go
From this day on I want to stay on
Now that I've started learning
And the tides started turning
Well, it's here I want to stay
I'll let the moon announce my arrival
To every eye that cares to see
Just working on the art of survival
Where do we go from here, where do we go from here
I'm alive here, I can survive dear
Though the weather might change
From the wind to the rain
Well, my heart remains the same
I'll let the moon announce my arrival
To every eye that cares to see
Just working on the art of survival
Where do we go from here, where do we go from here
Looked out on a sea of trouble
And I tried to stall for awhile
It's so hard to answer every question
And it's hard to protect your heart anymore
I'll let the moon announce my arrival (I am alive)
To every eye that cares to see
Just working on the art of survival (but I wonder)
Where do we go from here
I'll let the moon announce my arrival (I am alive)
To every eye that cares to see
Just working on the art of survival (but I wonder)
Where do we go from here
I'll let the moon announce my arrival (I am alive)
To every eye that cares to see
Just working on the art of survival (but I wonder)
Shadows of night falling over my head
People walking
Passing me by
Shadows of dreams falling out of the blue
People talking
What can I do
Where do I go from here
Where do I go from here
I could give you any dream and watch it grow
I could take you for a ride but you would know
I could tell you every answer that I know
It wouldn't be much tho'
It wouldn't be anything you didn't know
Survival
Nothing more than survival
Shadows of days hanging endless in time
Slowly fading
Passing us by
Shadows of worlds disappearing from view
People asking
What could we do?
Where do I go from here
Where do I go from here
If I gave you every dream they would grow
If I took you for a ride would you know
If I told you every answer that I know
It wouldn't be much tho'
It wouldn't be anything you didn't know
But survival
In you love, I have all that
I need for
survival
With your love I have all that
I need for
Survival
With our love we have all that
We need for
Take what you want
But just what you need
For survival
Take what you want
Just what you need
For survival, survival
Life's a bitch and then you die
Nothing you can do about it
Anything you steal or buy
You're gonna be leaving here without it
So take what you want
But just what you need
For survival, survival
Take what you want
Just what you need
For survival, survival
Take what you want
But just what you need
(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 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).
[ verse 1 ]
I'm lookin up out the barrel of a .45
Will a nigga survive
Or will these muthafuckas see me die
You see I'm livin in a society
Where soldiers breed
And you see murder 187 over hustlers greed
I told my homie to watch his fuckin back
While he blunted
I know some niggas that wanna kill him
For that five hundred
You see a murder from a street
My survival skills
Hand to hand or combat or even shoot to kill
Can't let these muthafuckas do you in this game man
Leavin cocaine in blood
Runnin down the street drain
They screamin yea but it ain't because they happy
I think they wanna cap me dome
Run in my happy home
And do me with the chrome
But ain't shit poppin
Cause you're sure to get your life tooken
I got niggas watchin my back
When even I ain't look at it
[ chorus ]
Survival
Survival
Only the strong can survive
Its called survival
[ verse 2 ]
You see it's cold on these blood-thirsty streets nigga
You got to figure
Even these little muthafuckas packin triggas
That'll put you under
I heard the thunder of a .20 gauge
? ? ? ? ? another nigga dead
And still don't make the front page
Nobody gives a fuck
You're on your own patna
Better pull some licks but don't jack me
Cause you get with this chopper
Make you spray yourself or ak yourself
If you don't know how much you're worth
You should have took your time and weighed yourself
Its 50/50 in the city when it's life or death
You can take it
Or I could have my last breath
Its do or die
Die or do
Me and you
Which one will survive
When all the killin is through
Some niggas leavin dumb before they realize
The name of the muthafuckin game is survive nigga
[ chorus ]
[ verse 3 ]
Muthafuckas say that I'm a paranoid nigga
Because I'm strapped with the infrared and the mack 11
Everyday put a happy big face up in your 6 tray
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? see who survive
Before you get off 2 shots
Nigga I'm gon get off 5
Cause I ain't the one to be the corpse
Up in this muthafucka
You know you're fuckin
With the original dead body chucker
Punk ass niggas can't get next to this
Dead o.g.'s be hautin my body like the muthafuckin exorcist
Run up on niggas dumpin they homies
Bodies up out they car
Its just some hardcore shit
Thats uncut and raw
We do the shit cause niggas can't understand
That everybody up on the block
Can't be the muthafuckin top man
Its scrilla for every nigga so strive
And you will be the nigga to survive
Race
Life's a race
But I'm gonna win
Yes, I'm gonna win
And I'll light the fuse
And I'll never lose
And I choose to survive
Whatever it takes
You won't pull ahead
I'll keep up the pace
And I'll reveal my strength
To the whole human race
Yes, I am prepared
To stay alive
I won't forgive
Vengeance is mine
And I won't give in
Because I choose to fight
Yeah, we're gonna win
Race
It's a race
But I'm gonna win
Yes, I'm gonna win
And I'll light the fuse
And I'll never lose
And I choose to survive
Whatever it takes
You won't pull ahead
I'll keep up the pace
And I'll reveal my strength
To the whole human race
Yes, I'm gonna win
CHORUS
I'm a survivor, I've been around the block
I'm a survivor I'm coming out of the box
I'm a survivor, And yet you know I won't stop
I'm a survivor, I've got this game on lock
I'm a survivor, What you got? What you got?
I'm a survivor What you got? What you got?
I'm a survivor, You don't want it!
Well, it's not about the industry, And it's
not about the things, I've been through like Nas
or jay-Z, See, I've seen a lot of things on the road
to destruction, Addicted to this rap game
standin up and bustin, This ain't a come back
this ain't a second comin, We take a real loss
when Dime Bag stopped strummin, America's in
trouble and music is dyin, They said some things
about me, now the rap game is lyin
CHORUS
From sold out stages, to seconds from my life, To
rollin with Madonna, to reckin on my bike,
There's some things I regret and some I don't
Some things I take back, some I won't, I went
from style of the 90s to Dickies and Shell Toes,
No matter what I'm wearin, I'm still in the hell
hole, Escpae suicide from that gun on my
dresser, I look into my daughters eyes, that
releives pressure.
CHORUS
First they love you, then they hate you,
Then sign you, then they break you,
Treat you like a sport, Pump fake you, then they shake
And I don't want your pity cause I'm far from the norm,
I can take what you give, I've done made through the
storm,
I want the whole world to know me straight through my
songs
Baby when I die, let the songs live on,
'Cause I'm Survivin, And you know I won't stop,
I'm Survivin, I'm coming out of the box!
So you say you a gangsta, riiight
Are you really a rider, yeeaa
You don't take shit from no one, nooo
And got ya mind on ya motherfucking dough, let's go
I'll be a South Side nigga till I rot
Even though I got the yacht in the million dollar bot
Superman armor on the '69 drop
0ut of every 70 rappers 69 flop
I blowed a buck in the corner, just to get the feel
My head light smooth when I move the steering wheel
I ain't running from nothing, it's top dollar to chill
I pop bottles for real, with pop artists that kill
I move 2 mill, my backyard is a field
I ain't tough for the tube, I'll smack yall for real
Go 'head hate on me now, you'll miss a nigga later
I'm hood like bulletholes and pissy elevators
I went from playing the same block to Bangkok
So I can get money between raindrops
And my piece so heavy I pop a chain a week
And get so much pussy I can't sleep
Poppa was a rolling stone, never came back home now I'm on my own
So I had to learn a few things bout survival, like the ice pick done off the bottom
If you scared don't come 'round here, guns ammunition don't run out here
As soon you get the paper you try it, a nigga try me he won't see tomorrow
I ain't even got a licence yet and got 7 cars, yep
TV the same size as Kevin Garnett
A brand new buzz, Mac 10 and a choppa
White fan base cuz Eminem is my partner
I'm a Ferrari and Jag copper, you a glass shopper
I blow marijuana the color of grass hopper
I ain't a regular nigga
All the promoters pay 100 more to bring ya boy to Singapore
My dress code got the best hoes jumping on 'em
Evisu's and Red Monkey with the monkey on 'em
Shelves'll leave a niggas food stamps blue
Like a full tube of acid in ya shampoo
We don't tolerate the cock-blocking out the bricks
We got fif's with the cop stoppers in the clips
Watch ya mouth bitch, there's rocks popping out the wrists
And my outfits, a eyestopper for the chicks
Poppa was a rolling stone, never came back home now I'm on my own
So I had to learn a few things bout survival, like the ice pick done off the bottom
If you scared don't come 'round here, guns ammunition don't run out here
As soon you get the paper you try it, a nigga try me he won't see tomorrow
A nigga throw his hands up at me, I send a dummy harmed
And had money wrong shoot him in his underarm
Pick up a shell, that'll be his lucky charm
I got a chunky arm, I'm a fucking Don
I burn big everyday, nothing but the bong
I don't cuddle, as soon as I get the nut I'm gone
I'm in a class all by myself
I'll whoop ya ass all by myself
I got white gold, rose gold, yellow gold, platinum
Young hoes, old hoes, yellow ones and black ones
I been patiently waiting to get on my shit again
So this is for the corner they cornered a nigga in
I wish you would try jump me, I'll wave the gat by ya
And burn ya eyelashes off like a crack lighter
Nigga you stupid riding by tryna blast me
Cuz my window got the glass from a taxi
Poppa was a rolling stone, never came back home now I'm on my own
So I had to learn a few things bout survival, like the ice pick done off the bottom
If you scared don't come 'round here, guns ammunition don't run out here
This is survival wearing you down
Stripping your mind killing your time
This is survival right to the end
Losing your grip you can't pretend
This is survival - staring you down
This is survival lord of this slum
Time to pay up nowhere to run
This is survival, not politics
Beyond transgression, beyond all of this
When you get scared you come to me pleadingly
I must be there whenever you call
To betray your faith would be my greatest sin
Your love's so deep it makes me feel small
Now it's me, not your father, keeping the ghosts away
When we kiss it's a bond that I cannot hide from
I can't hurt the one I'm trusted to care for
It's not love any more - it's survival
When we're apart I cannot comfort you
But your heart is safe with me every night
When temptation's hand pulls me away from you
I must resist or forfeit my life
Take a look around you what do you see?
A world consumed by it's own fucking greed.
From rejecting our denial, we dismiss our survival.
Take a look around you what do you see?
Our planet being poisoned when there is no fucking need.
Indestructible
Designed human soul
Spitting blood at all
We shan't become tomorrow
Instinct wakes inside you
Look around, you are sin
Plagued, diseased dead within
All this time
Have you ever tried to fight your life?
Survival, Survival
You cant control your biological revival
Procreate to spread hereditary violence
Evolution of the species in defiance
Never letting go
Inconceivable
Subsistence veiled... Untruth
Turn the page and reveal
We're all one blood distorted
Free will sleeps inside you
Look around, you are sin
Plagued, diseased dead within
All this time
Have you ever tried to fight your life?
Survival, Survival
You cant control your biological revival
Procreate to spread hereditary violence
Evolution of the species in defiance
Never letting go
We're victims of our cellular conventions
Relayed through embryonic generations
I fight this plague of parasitic vengeance
Never you will be
Never will you see what I can see
Look around, you are sin
Plagued, diseased dead within
All this time
Have you ever tried to fight your life?
Survival, Survival
You cant control your biological revival
Procreate to spread hereditary violence
Evolution of the species in defiance
Never letting go
You can never tell me what I can or cannot do
You can never show me what I can or cannot do
You will never dictate me what I can or cannot do
You will never tell me what I can or cannot do
[People screaming in background]
Hey, hey come here, bring yo ass over here right now
Put the money in this motherfuckin', FUCK THEM!
Just put the money in the got damn bag, just do what I say
Hey, hey show me them hands, ooh shit girl
GET WHAT I SAID GOT DAMN IT!
Keep showin' em' ooh shit girl
GOT DAMN IT DID YOU HEAR ME! DON'T STOP, DON'T STOP!
[Verse 1]
I do get me some grain, ridin' me a Stang
Go inside this bank, decide to get em' for them thangs
That's what had in mind, some nitro and some nines
Pipe bombs and napalm, shit you think I'm lyin'
As quickly as I flee them folks come to take it
Left my ass no choice but to go off and shake it
Shake it to the left, no no, shake it to the right
I'm gonna shake it to the left because they left my ass to die
Shit off in ya I cause that green I multiply
Allergic to that shit back in 1989
When I sold that dope or that purple traded soap
All that bullshit for a highly ass rope
They make it for that soap, that's all that she wrote
Broke kibbles to bits , brought my mom's to pokes
I'm stuffin' bags possessed, my dope I will compress
Shit I would invest in some quakers on the cut
See most of the time I got my ass in
Then most the time I took the fuckin' ass end
Of the stinkin' paddle, beat my ass like a rattle
Snake because they fake, took a piss off in my shadow
An adult lesson, I couldn't get no Wesson
I dropped down depressin' a broke nigga stressin'
[Hook x3: with various ad-libs]
Survival
Survival, in these streets
[Verse 2]
It's killin' me here, we livin' on the hill
Next to a crazy motherfucker you can't feel
That's why I keep the four-four, the mask and the boat
Tey ass fuck with me, they ass cuttin' close
Like those on the eighty, say hoes weighty
Shit for me, niggas takin' half, I don't play that
I want my cakes and eat it, the goods and delete it
This shit could be repeated but my ass just seem to meet it
Like winds through a pipe or candles to the night
Hoes to a pimp, or a Sphinx to a dyke
Call me what cha' like but I ain't headin' bike
Except for twenty days and that was twenty nights
A fuckin' December that was thick as timber
Wolves and they tryin' to hit my rims as I deliver
Shit to keep me goin' hoes they keep throwin'
Monkey tools at my shoes, keep my toes swollen
Cause I just go on fast and niggas might blast
If I had some bullshit about who's side is grass
So why you fuckin' cuttin' disrespectful askin' nothin'
Ain't got shit to do but you wanna be doin' something
Help me Help me help me Hold me Help me
Survival well
survival of the fittist
survival
I a got get with it
cause it ain't no joke (ain't no joke)
when a man is broke
busted
walkin around broke
and it ain't no jive (ain't no jive)
trying to stay alive (alive)
livin from day to day livin
rent man says that the rent is due
my little baby needs a new pair of shoes
I'm just about to loose my mind
one step away from the bread line
well I'm triina to do the very best I can
tryin a to make on through
I don't know which way to turn
I don't know what to do do do
Survival oh oh oh oh
Survival of the fittist
Survival
I a well I gotta get withit
cause it anin't no joke (ain't no joke)
when a man is broke
Busted
walking around broke
and it ain't no jive (ain't no jive)
tryin ta stay alive (alive)
livin from day to day livin
pockets are bare
I'm down to my last penny
lookin for folk
I caint find any
first law of nature is
preservation of man
look like I'll have to do
anythin I can
hussle bussel day in day out
can't even get a good night sleep
I don't know how in the world
we goin make these ends meet
Survival I I I
Survival of the fittist
Survival I a
I gotta get withit
cause it anin't no joke (ain't no joke)
when a man is broke
walkin around with his hands in his pockets broke
Busted
and it ain't no jive (ain't no jive)
tryin to stay alive (alive)
livin from day to day livin
hussle bussel hang witit
got ta get it
HELP ME HELP HELP ME HELP ME HELP ME
Ooooooh Survival
Survival of the fittist
WELL WELL WELL
Survival of the fittist
Survival
I a well I gotta get withit
Survival
WELL WELL WELL
Survival of the fittist
Survival
won't ya wont ya
I gotta get withit
survuval won't I wonder does any body care
wonder
I'll get on the welfare
I'll survive you, I will survive you
Well, it's too late, I know, to change the way we go
From this day on I want to stay on
Now that I've started learning
And the tides started turning
Well, it's here I want to stay
I'll let the moon announce my arrival
To every eye that cares to see
Just working on the art of survival
Where do we go from here, where do we go from here
I'm alive here, I can survive dear
Though the weather might change
From the wind to the rain
Well, my heart remains the same
I'll let the moon announce my arrival
To every eye that cares to see
Just working on the art of survival
(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 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
I've seen a man today...
eating from a bin
and as he salvages;
anything he can;
I suspect,
regret to recollect;
now he's living in
a bottle like a model ship wreck.
Where does he come from;
Where will he go?
A face without a name;
Survival!
The sun sets on the horizon
Rainbows lie on the horizon
A band of (?)
But the rest just keeps on surviving...
Survival!
I've seen a girl tonight...
Fixing her tights
And as she wanders...
Under the street lights
I'm certain
This is where she works well...
Like (?)...
Like a theater curtain...
Where does she come from?
Where will she go?
Until the break of dawn...
Survival!
The sun sets on the horizon
Rainbows lie on the horizon
A band of (?)
But the rest just keeps on surviving...
Survival!
I knew a family girl...
She now talks to herself
But I remember when...
She worked every hour of godsends...
All she wanted
Was to be successful
Round and round...
She went into the business care herself
Where does she come from?
Where will she go?
Is this madness?
Until survival?
The sun sets on the horizon
Rainbows lie on the horizon
A band of (?)
But the rest just keeps on surviving...
Take a breath relax distressed
I'm running from people
Racing through time
Opinions swarming round me
Shouting yelling screaming
Pushing shoving squeezing
Explode
Time will tick by
Nothing lonely surprise
We know ourselves
More than we want to
We know on our graves
No shame to our names
It slowly creeps up behind you
Stealing air from my lungs
In a loud noisy city
Central Lan Kwai Fong
I want hear not
I wish I'd led my life another way
Burning Drowning
Nothing Explode
Burning Drowning
Nothing Explode
We know ourselves
More than we want to
We know on our graves
No shame to our names
We Know ourselves
No shame our graves
[Intro]
Yeah, DeStorm
Mad critical
And original (put your hands up)
Brooklyn, stand up (put your hands up)
Everyone around the world (put your hands up)
Stand up (everybody hands up)
And if you a survivor
I wanna hear you say
[Hook]
When they try to cut you down say (I'm a survivor)
And if they try to shut you down say (I'm a survivor)
And even if the world is in your way (I'm a survivor)
You just believe in what you do and say (I'm a
survivor)
[Verse 1]
Yo, listen
Be a Survivor
If you from the ghetto or Boondocks
Where the One Tree Hill
Or if you South of the Park
You could be from Smallville
Cause it's real on every block
They selling Weed out the Cribs
And pushing the 30 Rock
But I did that, true that
So you ain't gotta do that
Y'all do these Dirty Jobs
To be in The It Crowd
Visitors come around and
Everybody start Wildin' Out
Keep your focus, look up
Stop looking for a Hook Up
I'm from The Wire not the Blue Mountain State
The Burn Notice on the door
Eviction order's on the gate
Promise Friends I make it out the hood
Get in The Office, shout the hood
I never knew one day that
I'll be making songs about the hood
There's 8 Simple Rules
We keep the Law, we keep the Order
Stash the guns no cross the borders
Teach the sons and teach the daughters
Have a tight Entourage
One day you'll have to Flash Forward
You want out the House?
Then all you do is ask for it
[Hook]
[Verse 2]
Instead of moving out the Projects
Y'all Pimping a Ride
Your Mom's going through divorce and
Turned to Desperate Housewives
Dudes Party Down
Everybody trying to be the King of Queens
Not the Family Guy
While the ladies they just Gossip Girls
Scrubs lie to get ass
Throwing around The L Word
In the 'burbs, kids go missing
And in the hood, they just Lost
So fix your Criminal Mind
All be gone before your time
And the Cops and CSI
Find your Bones in some ride
And your Mama got True Blood
Running from her eyes
Saying an Angel took her baby
Now she constantly cries
You see, Mama don't want no drama
She was strong enough to raise Two and a Half Men
In the Future, I'mma show her we lasting
Show her that we're laughing
Even if we're last in
It's an Amazing Race and we just gotta cash in
Do what we gotta to do to be what we gotta be
You with me? Say you with me
And don't you lie to me
[Hook (x2)]
[Outro]
Everybody around the world
Let's arrive together
Get live together
Let's arrive together
DeStorm
Message II (Survival)
Survival, only the strong can survive
It's called survival, only the strong can survive
It's called survival, in order to stay alive
It's called survival, survival, survival, survival
They smile in your face and they talk behind your back
And when you get the story, it's never exact
Some say, they're your friends but they really are not
because they are only out to try and get what you've
Survival, only the strong can survive
It's called survival, only the strong can survive
It's called survival, in order to stay alive
It's called survival, survival, survival, survival
In jail they got a game and they call it survival
They run it down to you on your first arrival
They tell you what you can and what you cannot do, so
if you ever go to jail, watch your "mm-mm"
It's called survival, only the strong can survive
It's called survival, only the strong can survive
It's called survival, in order to stay alive
It's called survival, survival, survival, survival
I went looking for a job, every day last week but it
turned into a crazy game of "hide and seek"
Because every place that I seemed to look, a job wasn't
there
I might as well apply for food-stamps or welfare
It's called survival and only the strong can survive
It's called survival and only the strong can survive
It's called survival in order to stay alive
It's called survival, survival, survival, survival
Like Hercules, you body is strong but your mind is like
the Devil, your ideals are wrong
You hurt people's feelings and mess with their minds
Didn't have the nerve to call me brother and wave the
peace sign
The young and the old, they all hate your sight because
of people like you, they're scared to walk in the night
It's called survival and only the strong can survive
It's called survival and only the strong can survive
It's called survival in order to stay alive
It's called survival, survival, survival, survival
The problems of the world today are bigger than life
You have recessions and depressions, men are cheating
on their wives
Babies born each morn' with parts of their bodies gone
because of some crazy drug that their mothers was on
This country is fightin' not unitin', always putting
each other down
Blacks and whites don't realize that they're really
pink and brown
You got; gun tootin' cut-throats, stress and strife and
looking out for number one is a way of live
It's called survival and only the strong can survive
It's called survival and only the strong can survive
It's called survival in order to stay alive
It's called survival, survival, survival, survival
You've got to lock all your windows, chain up all your
doors to protect what's inside of your houses' stores
Beware of the food, it might be no good 'cause there's
someone trying to poison the whole neighbourhood
Today they found something in somebody's store
They said, "killed ten people and hurt four more"
You can't even trust a pill to make life easier when
there's sudden death on your grocer's freezer
Survival, only the strong can survive
It's called survival, only the strong can survive
It's called survival, in order to stay alive
It's called survival, survival, survival, survival
About to lose your mind because life is hard and yet
you believe in everything but God
Those pretty women lost of money, yeah, that's alright
but don't you ever forget the man with the might
Now get a hold of yourself man, think positive because
that's definitely the only way to live
Don't let you mind flow, like water from a cup and
don't you ever let me hear you say that you're giving
It's called survival, only the strong can survive
It's called survival, only the strong can survive
It's called survival in order to stay alive
It's called survival, survival, survival, survival
Remember: a child is born with no state of mind
He was blind to the ways of mankind
God is smiling on you but he's frowning too because
only god knows what you'll go through
Survival, only the strong can survive
It's called survival and only the strong can survive
It's called survival in order to stay alive
I broke my promise on a very sharp rock
And I was possessed by something quite unfriendly
And I was haunted by a demon in my sleep
And that's how I learned how to survive.
I gave a berr to a bum that was drinking
And I gave some sause to my bestest friends for cooking
And I gave water to all I thought were thirsty
And that's how I learned how to survive.
I gave some money to my bank for safe keeping
And I gave some money to my land lord, he was needing it
And I gave attention to the TV that was bleeding
And that's how I learned how to survive.
And "I don't care if monday's blue,
Tuesday's grey and wednesday's too.
Thursday I don't care about you.
It's friday I'm in love."
We just ripped off a song by the cure
But it's not the first band that we ripped off for sure.
I fed false information to the audience
And that's how I learned how to survive.
I give a thank you to my father for leaving me
And I give a finger to my stepfather for beating me
And I give props to myself for achieving.
Gosh dang I'm glad that I survived.
I just handed you a giant load of gibberish
And I give love to a lover quite deserving of it
And I give thanks to all of you for listening to the story
In a wonderland inside garbage heap
The perfect life form means a shit
The sun goes down with our tomorrow
I don't remember my mission, my roots.
We live just day by day
With any reason, with any skill.
We've left our brothers,
We've left our dogs
We never learn from our mistakes
Hey, suit guy hold my cross
Wake up now, wake up now...
We've killed or future for having fun
Erase my past, erase our past
Adrenaline's drumming my brain
My heart is beating with double rhytm.
I can do anything for us
I can't see the goal of my life
I can't hear the solutions
I don't know the finish.
Shame - shame - shame
Szégyen - szégyen - szégyen
How to be a human
A killed animal is a mirror
A killed child is a mirror