We Have Survived

You can't choose the river of my soul
 Whoa-oh-oh
 You can't tell me to
 What to do
 You can't break my bone by
 Putting me down
 Whoa-oh-oh
 Or by taking the things that belong to me
 'Cause
 We have survived
 The white man's world
 And the horror and the torment of it all
 We have survived
 The white man's world
 And you know
 You can't change that
 All the years has just past me by
 Whoa-oh-oh
 I've been hassled by the cop nearly all my life
 People trying to keep me so blind
 Whoa-oh-oh
 But I can see what's going on in my mind
 'Cause
 We have survived
 The white man's world
 And the horror and the torment of it all
 We have survived
 The white man's world
 And you know
 You can't change that
 You can't choose the river of my soul
 Whoa-oh-oh
 You can't tell me to
 What to do
 You can't break my bone by
 Putting me down
 Whoa-oh-oh
 Or by taking the things that belong to me
 'Cause
 We have survived
 The white man's world
 And the horror and the torment of it all
 We have survived
 The white man's world
 And you know
 You can't change that