We Survived
[Intro: Jasmine Burems]
We survived, ooooh, ooooh
We survived

[Verse 1: Alixa & Naima, (Jasmine)]
We survived the fires of Soma and Nagasaki
And we will survive Palestine
We survived Vietnam, Emdeni, Rwanda and Mississippi
The fifty stripes around our stars
Fifty years to life behind their bars (hmm)
We survived middle school and self-inflicted scars
Losing our mothers (losing our mothers, hmm) to our fathers' hands
We survived slavery and genocide, (hmm)
Came back from the dead and spread like wildfire

[Hook: choir, (Jasmine)]
Ancestors, are you here for us?
Expect miracles
We will survive

(Hmm, hmm)
[Verse 2 : Alixa & Naima, (Jasmine)]
We survived stone walls and Soweto (Soweto)
The embargo, the ghetto (the ghetto)
The concrete, police beatings
The screams and their echoes (the screams and their echoes)
The cutbacks, the addictions
The droughts and the presses
Jim Crow (Jim Crow) and gas chambers
The warfare and the chain (and the chain)

The seeds from our strange fruits
Have been sprinkled across this terrain
By our angels
And everywhere we land, we gonna take root
(and everywhere we land, we're gonna take root)
And every inch of rock, mud and sand
We gonna break through
(We're gonna break through.)

You're here right now
I'm seein' you within my own two eyes
Sleep off all the demons that tried to take you
And you still survived (and you still survived)
And we will survive (and we will survive)

[Hook: choir, (Jasmine)]
Ancestors, are you here for us?
Expect miracles
We will survive
Ancestors, are you here for us?
Expect miracles
We will survive

(Ooh, eeeey
Ooh, yeaaah
Oooooh, yeaah
Expect miracles
We will survive.)

[Verse 3: Alixa & Naima, (Jasmine)]
To destroy us, they'll have to annihilate our angels
(They'll have to annihilate our angels)
We summon the strength of all those who came before us
And all those coming (all those coming and coming, hmm)
We must weave freedom in our fingers
When the world gives us nothing
But believing, a new day is coming (a new day is coming)

[Outro: Jasmine, choir]
A new day is coming
In my soul I know
We will survive
Everything's gonna be alright

Ancestors, are you here for us?
Expect miracles
We will survive
Ancestors, are you here for us?
Expect miracles
We will survive

Yeah
In my soul I know
We will survive

Ancestors, are you here for us?
Expect miracles
We will survive

Ancestors, are you here for us?
Expect miracles
We will survive

Ooh yeah, yeah, ooh
We will survive
A new day is coming
Everything's gonna be alright!
Yeah

Our ancestors
Our ancestors