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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
ahhho ahhho ahhho
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 survive
learn from these streets
it can be bleak
accept no defeat
surrender retreat
(so we struggling)
fighting to eat
(and we wondering)
when we will be free
so we patiently wait
for that faithful day
its not far away
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
ahhho ahhho ahhho
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 say
but look how they treat us
make us believers
we fight their battles
then they deceive us
try to control us
they couldn't hold us
cause we just move forward
like buffalo soldiers
(but we struggling)
fighting to eat
(and we wondering)
when we will be free
so we patiently wait
for that faithfully day
its not far away
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
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
ahhhooo ahhhoooo ahhhooo
and everybody will be singing it
and you and i will be singing it
and we all will be singing it
wo wah wo ah wo ah
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
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
a oh a oh a oh
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

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Songwriters: Bruno Mars / Philip Lawrence / Keinan Warsame / Andrew Lawrence Bloch / Edmond Dunne / Andrew Bloch / Phillip Lawrence

Wavin' Flag lyrics © Warner/Chappell Music, Inc