Wavin' Flag

K'naan

When I get older, I will be stronger
They'll call me freedom
Just like a wavin' flag

When I get older, I will be stronger
They'll call me freedom
Just like a wavin' flag

And then it goes back
And then it goes back
And then it goes back

Born to a throne, stronger than Rome
But violent prone, poor people zone
But it's my home, all I have known
Where I got grown, streets we would roam

Out of the darkness I came the farthest
Among the hardest survival
Learn from these streets, it can be bleek
Accept no defeat, surrender, retreat

So we're strugglin'...fighting to eat
And we're wonderin'...when we'll be free
So we patiently wait for that faithful day
It's not faraway, but for now we say

When I get older, I will be stronger
They'll call me freedom
Just like a wavin' flag

And then it goes back
And then it goes back
And then it goes back

So many wars, settling scores
Bringing us promises, leaving us poor
I heard them say love is the way
Love is the answer, that's what they said

But look how they treat us, makes us believers
We fight there battles, then they deceive us
Try to control us, they couldn't hold us
'Cause we just move forward, like buffalo soldiers

But we're strugglin'...fighting to eat
And we're wonderin'...when we'll be free
So we patiently wait for that faithful day
It's not faraway, but for now we say

When I get older, I will be stronger
They'll call me freedom
Just like a wavin' flag

And then it goes back...
And then it goes back...
And then it goes back...
And then it goes...

When I get older, I will be stronger
They'll call me freedom
Just like a wavin' flag

And then it goes back...
And then it goes back...
And then it goes back...

And then it goes...
And then it goes...

And everybody will be singing it
And you and I will be singing it
And we all will be singing it

When I get older, I will be stronger
They'll call me freedom
Just like a wavin' flag

And then it goes back...
And then it goes back...
And then it goes back...

When I get older...when I get older
I will be stronger
Just like a wavin' flag

Just like a wavin' flag
Just like a wavin' flag

Flag...flag...

Just like a wavin' flag