Wavin’ the Flag - K’naan

[00:00.000]when i get older
[00:01.680]i will be stronger they'll call me freedom
[00:05.110]just like a wavin flag
[00:08.050]
[00:09.740]when i get older
[00:11.580]i will be stronger they'll call me freedom
[00:14.670]just like a wavin flag
[00:16.910]and then it goes back
[00:18.360]and then it goes back
[00:19.910]and then it goes back
[00:21.800]ahhho
[00:23.060]born to a throne
[00:24.350]stronger than rome
[00:25.950]but violent prone
[00:27.500]poor people zone
[00:29.040]but its my home
[00:30.480]all i have known
[00:32.030]where i got grown
[00:33.620]streets we would roam
[00:35.260]out of the darkness
[00:36.850]i came the farthest
[00:38.500]among the hardest survive
[00:41.580]learn form these streets
[00:43.570]it can be bleak
[00:44.770]accept no defeet
[00:46.360]surrender retreat
[00:47.900](so we struggling)
[00:49.340]fighting to eat
[00:51.040](and we wondering)
[00:52.480]when we will be free
[00:54.230]so we patiently wait
[00:55.980]for that faithful day
[00:57.420]its not far away
[00:58.910]but for now we say
[01:00.510]when i get older
[01:02.300]i will be stronger they'll call me freedom
[01:05.440]just like a wavin flag
[01:07.630]and then it goes back
[01:09.170]and then it goes back
[01:10.760]and then it goes back
[01:12.300]ahhho
[01:13.500]so many wars
[01:14.890]settling scores
[01:16.580]bring us promises
[01:18.080]leaving us poor
[01:19.570]i heard them say
[01:21.160]love is the way
[01:22.600]love is the answer
[01:24.400]thats what they say
[01:25.840]but look how they treat us
[01:27.670]make us believers
[01:29.160]we fight there battles
[01:31.000]then they deceive us
[01:32.500]try to control us
[01:34.240]they couldn't hold us
[01:35.480]cause we just move forward
[01:37.080]like buffalo soldiers
[01:38.630](but we strugglin)
[01:39.870]fighting to eat
[01:41.460](and we wondering)
[01:43.010]when we will be free
[01:44.710]so we patiently wait
[01:46.360]for that faithfully day
[01:47.850]its not far away
[01:49.440]but for now we say
[01:50.930]when i get older
[01:52.820]i will be stronger they'll call me freedom
[01:55.910]just like a wavin flag
[01:58.000]and then it goes back
[01:59.490]and then it goes back
[02:01.180]and then it goes back
[02:02.770]and then it goes
[02:04.050]when i get older
[02:05.500]i will be stronger they'll call me freedom
[02:08.680]just like a wavin flag
[02:10.770]and then it goes back
[02:12.360]and then it goes back
[02:13.760]and then it goes back
[02:15.400]ahhhooo ahhhoooo ahhhooo
[02:27.060]and everybody will be singing it
[02:30.190]and you and i will be singing it
[02:33.270]and we all will be singing it
[02:36.210]wo wah wo ah wo ah
[02:41.730]when i get older
[02:43.320]i will be stronger they'll call me freedom
[02:46.460]just like a wavin flag
[02:48.600]and then it goes back
[02:50.190]and then it goes back
[02:51.740]and then it goes back
[02:53.280]and then it goes
[02:54.560]when i get older
[02:55.950]i will be stronger they'll call me freedom
[02:59.030]just like a wavin flag
[03:01.220]and then it goes back
[03:02.770]and then it goes back
[03:04.260]and then it goes back
[03:05.900]a oh
[03:08.010]when i get older
[03:10.250]when i get older
[03:14.730]i will be stronger
[03:17.910]just like a wavin flag
[03:21.300]just like a wavin flag
[03:24.210]just like a wavin flag
[03:27.350]flag flag
[03:30.420]just like a wavin flag
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