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