in spite of you (rewrite two)

every hour of honest work
every healing inside the hurt
every morning when I wake
every rough and ragged 
breath I take
everything I can
I'm going to
everything I am
everything I do
I'm making it though
in spite of you

every year of growing old
every journey of my soul
every time I've had to fight
to see between wrong and right
every ray of hope
coming out of the blues
everything I am
everything I do
and I'll do what I have to do
in spite of you

          you've wanted to harm me
          since I can remember
          but now you don't alarm me
          I don't have to surrender

every second
every minute
of a life with joy within it
I will fight to my last breath
till one of us meets its death
everything I am
everything I do
every well-earned answer
from a disappearing clue
I'm making it through
in spite of you