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 ahhho ahhho ahhho born to a throne stronger than rome but violent prone poor people zone but its 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 survive learn form these streets it can be bleak accept no defeet surrender retreat (so we struggling) fighting to eat (and we wondering) when we will be free so we patiently wait for that faithful day its 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 ahhho ahhho ahhho so many wars settling scores bring 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 there battles then they deceive us try to control us they couldn't hold us cause we just move forward like buffalo soldiers (but we strugglin) fighting to eat (and we wondering) when we will be free so we patiently wait for that faithfully day its 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 when i get older i will be stronger they'll call me freedom just like a waving flag and then it goes back ahhhooo ahhhoooo ahhhooo and everybody will be singing it and you and i will be singing it and we all will be singing it wo wah wo ah wo ah when i get older i will be stronger they'll call me freedom just like a waving flag 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 ahho ahho ahho when i get older when i get older i will be stronger just like a waving flag flag flag just like a waving flag