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Wavin' Flag

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OriginalYoung Artists For Haiti version
WAVIN' FLAG

When I get older, I will be stronger
They’ll call me freedom, just like a Waving Flag

When I get older, I will be stronger
They’ll call me freedom, just like a Waving 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
But out of the darkness, I came the farthest
Among the hardest survival
Learn from these streets, it can be bleak
Except no defeat, surrender retreat

So we struggling, fighting to eat and
We wondering when we’ll be free
So we patiently wait, for that fateful day
It’s not far away, so for now we say

When I get older, I will be stronger
They’ll call me freedom, just like a Waving 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 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’ll be free
So we patiently wait, for that faithful day
It’s not far away, but for now we say

When I get older, I will be stronger
They’ll call me freedom, just like a Waving 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 Waving Flag
And then it goes back, and then it goes back
And then it goes back

(Ohhhh Ohhhh Ohhhhh Ohhhh)
And everybody will be singing it
(Ohhhh Ohhhh Ohhhhh Ohhhh)
And you and I will be singing it
(Ohhhh Ohhhh Ohhhhh Ohhhh)
And we all will be singing it
(Ohhh Ohh Ohh Ohh)

When I get older, I will be stronger
They’ll call me freedom, just like a Waving 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 Waving 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 Waving Flag
Just like a Waving Flag, just like a Waving flag
Flag, flag, Just like a Waving Flag.

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 its 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 waving flag

And then it goes back
And then it goes back
And then it goes back
Ahhho ahhho ahhho

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 were 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 (In the name of survival)
and we wondering
Battant pour nos vies (Fighting for our lives)

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 waving flag

And then it goes back
And then it goes back
And then it goes back
Ahhho ahhho ahhho

Uhh – well alright
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 its really all love again nahh
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 waving flag

And then it goes back
And then it goes back
And then it goes back
Ahhho ahhho ahhho

When I get older
When I get older
I will be stronger
just like a waving flag


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