Wavin' Flag

When I get older

I will be stronger

They'll call me freedom

Just like a wavin' flag

Born from a throne

Older than Rome

But violent prone

Poor people zone

But it's my home

All I have known

Where I got grown

But now it's gone

Out of the darkness

In came the carnage

Threatening my very survival

Fractured my streets

And broke all my dreams

Now feels like defeat to wretched retreat

So we strugglin'

Fighting to eat

And we wonderin'

If we'll be free

We cannot wait for some faithful day

It's too far away so right now I'll 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

Whoa-oh-oh

So many wars settling scores

All that we've been through

And now there is more

I hear them say love is the way

Love is the answer that's what they say

But we're not just dreamers

Of broken down grievers

Our hand will reach us

And we will not see ya

This can't control us

No, it can't hold us down

We gon' pick it up even though we still struggling

Au nom de la survie

And we wondering

Battant pour nos vies

We patiently wait

For some other day

That's too far away so right now I 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

Whoa-oh-oh

When I get older

I will be stronger

They'll call me freedom

Just like a wavin' flag

And then it goes back (uh)

And then it goes back (well, alright)

And then it goes back

Whoa-oh-oh

How come when the media stops covering

And there's a little help from the government

We forget about the people still struggling

And assume that it's really all love again, nah

See we don't have to wait for things to break apart

If you weren't involved before it's never too late to start

You probably think that it's too far to even have to care

Well, take a look at where you live, what if it happened there?

You have to know the urge to make a change lies within

And we can be the reason that they see the flag rise again

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

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

Whoa-oh-oh

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

Whoa-oh-oh

When I get older

When I get older

I will be stronger

Just like a wavin' flag