I was never meant to last back in the old days

I probably would have been a slave or a monk, someone who was a submissive.

I nerver would have been a warrior or a king.

I would have crumpled, a passive, a person who did whatever you wanted,
I wouldn't have survived then: I don't really know how to survive now.
But back then, I would have been someone who was raped and beaten, someone among the dead.