I Survived

In 1975 my world turned upside down, the Communists took over in South Vietnam
A High School History teacher I taught my students well
But I spoke too much for freedom so they threw me in a cell

So it was there I built my home away from home
And the Carpenter came and laid the chief cornerstone
Every time that I was hungry, He gave me the Bread of Life
I tell you that's how I survived

Stripped of all my dignity, do you know what freedom means
Oh to me it is like air, without I cannot breathe
14 years that I worked in concentration camps
But in all of my weakness, He made me stronger than those men

For once God gave me a Bible when He saw I had lost hope
I found it in a shed that I cleaned as I was told
Six years passed, they found it and then they tortured me
But they could not touch His Word etched in my memory

So it was there I built my home away from home
And the Carpenter came and laid the chief cornerstone
Every time that I was hungry, He gave me the Bread of Life
I tell you that's how I survived

Sometimes I feel like Him with no place to lay my head
I am a refugee, in Vietnam they want me dead
But He said that if we love Him and if we keep His Word
He and His Father would make their home with us on earth

So it is here I've built my home away from home
And the Carpenter came and built the chief cornerstone
Every time that I was hungry, He gave me the Bread of Life
I tell you that's how I survived