Music Video
Music Video
Credits
PERFORMING ARTISTS
K'naan
Performer
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
K'naan
Songwriter
Keinan Abdi Warsame
Composer
P. Lawrence
Composer
Bruno Mars
Songwriter
PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING
will.i.am
Producer
David Guetta
Producer
The Smeezingtons
Producer
Kerry Brothers
Producer
AFROJACK
Producer
Dylan Dresdow
Mixing Engineer
Jaime Martinez
Assistant Mixing Engineer
Lyrics
[Verse 1]
When I get older
I will be stronger
They'll call me "Freedom"
Just like a wavin' flag
So wave your flag
Now, wave your flag
Now, wave your flag
[Verse 2]
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 bleak
Accept no defeat, surrender, retreat
[Verse 3]
So we strugglin'
Fighting to eat
And we wonderin'
When we'll be free
So we patiently wait
For that fateful day
It's not far away
But for now we say
[Verse 4]
When I get older
I will be stronger
I'll make it better
Struggle no longer
When I get older
I will be stronger
They'll call me "Freedom"
Just like a wavin' flag
So wave your flag
Now, wave your flag
Now, wave your flag
Now, wave your flag
Now, wave your flag
Now, wave your flag
Now, wave your flag
[Verse 5]
So many wars
Settlin' scores
Bringin' us promises
Leavin' us poor
And in a situation
When death's a compensation
They got no occupation
To buy no medication
See, it's a combination
Of no education, but we can never get
And save tomorrow's generation
'Cause they can't control us
No, they can't hold us down
We gon' pick it up
Even though we all strugglin'
[Verse 6]
Fighting to eat
And we wonderin'
When we'll be free
So patiently wait (Wait)
For that fateful day (Go)
It's not far away
But for now we say
[Verse 7]
When I get older
I will be stronger
I'll make it better
Struggle no longer
When I get older
I will be stronger
They'll call me "Freedom"
Just like a wavin' flag
[Verse 8]
So wave your flag
And wave your flag
And wave your flag
And wave your flag
And wave your flag
And wave your flag
And wave your flag
[Verse 9]
(Whoa)
(Whoa)
(Oh-ah)
(Oh-ah)
And everybody will be singing, yeah
And you and I, we'll be singing, yeah
And we all will be singing, yeah
(Whoa)
(Whoa)
(Whoa)
[Verse 10]
When I get older
I will be stronger
Stronger, stronger, I will be stronger
Stronger, stronger, I will be stronger
They'll call me "Freedom"
Just like a wavin' flag
[Verse 11]
So wave your flag
Now, wave your flag
Now, wave your flag
Now, wave your flag
Now, wave your flag
Now, wave your flag
Now, wave your flag
Yeah
[Verse 12]
Just like a wavin' flag (Oh, oh, oh)
Just like a wavin' flag (Oh, oh)
Just like a wavin' flag
Just like a wavin' flag
Written by: 李焯雄