You can strip me of my wishes and take away my dreams.

You can thirst me of the waters by contaminating streams,

You can rob me of my riches until I'm homeless, bare, and wry.

But unless you pierce my fighting heart, and how!

I'll Never Die!

You can blind me of my vision until my life appears "a jam".

You can even ridicule me of everything I am.

You can fill me with such anger until I barely strain to cry.

But unless you take away my soul, and how!

I'll Never Die!

You can regulate my learning until my ignorance is bliss.

Confine me of my freedom until captivity's remiss.

Deplete my cultivations of resources of which I rely.

But unless you disembowel my will, and how!

I'll Never Die

You can take what I consider "gold" and tarnish it into rust.

Disease my body tissue and cast I back to dust.

Expire life as swiftly as the blinking of an eye.

But unless you take me from my GOD, and HOW!.

I'LL NEVER DIE!