Sea of hurt, I feel the waves of pain And now the tide comes in again Caught in a vicious cycle of despair Give me the strength to face another day Oh, sing a song of joy Sweet childhood, never desert me Time for celebration, oh! Overcome with a sense of elation I'll never let you get to me Survival is my victory I sighed and sighed as I was mourning I said sorry a thousand times I cried aloud to God for all my failings But God seemed deaf as well as blind Oh, sing a song of joy Sweet childhood, never desert me Time for celebration, oh! Overcome with a sense of elation I'll never let you get to me Survival is my victory We drank and smoked and talked until the dawn We shared our problems and our food Telling tales of courage and resolution Through all the hardships we'd endured Oh, sing a song of joy Sweet childhood, never desert me Time for celebration, oh! Overcome with a sense of elation I'll never let you get to me Survival is my victory