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, oh Born to a throne, stronger than Rome A violent prone, poor people's known 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 So we're struggling, fighting to each And we're wondering, when we'll be free So we patiently wait, for that fateful 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, oh 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 So we're struggling, fighting to each And we're wondering, when we'll be free So we patiently wait, for that fateful 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, and then it goes 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, oh And then it goes back, oh And everybody will be singing And you and I will be singing And we all will be singing Oh, oh, oh 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, and then it goes 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, oh 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