in spite of you (rewrite)

every hour of honest work
every healing inside the hurt
every morning when I wake
every single breath I take
everything I am
everything I do
everything I can
I'm going to
in spite of you

every year of growing old
all those searches of my soul
all the times I've had to fight
between wrong and right
everything I am
everything I do
every ray of hope
coming out of the blues
is in spite of you

          you have tried to harm me
          since I can remember
          but somehow I've learned
          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 way
I make it though
is in spite of you