Wavin' Flag (Young Artists for Haiti)

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

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 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)

Ah, oh, ah, oh, ah, oh

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

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 vie (fighting for our lives)

We patiently wait

For some other day

Thats too far away so right now we say

Uh, 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, nah

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 their 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

When I get older

I will be stronger

Just like a waving flag