lyrics for Celebration Mix
in case you are lazy to go to the site here are the lyrics =)
p.s warning, the site is a image and the image "cooler" than just the lyrics...
p.s warning, the site is a image and the image "cooler" than just the lyrics...
Give me freedom
give me fire,
give me reason
take me higher.
See the champions
take the field now.
Unify us
Make us feel proud.
In the Streets our
hands are lifting.
And we lose our,
inhibitions
Celebration
it surrounds us
Every nation
all around us
Staying forever young
singing songs underneath the sun
let's rejoice in the beautiful game
then together celebrate the day
we all say
When i get older
i will be stronger
they'll call me freedom
just like the wavin' flag
and then it goes back (x3)
This song is the anthem for the world cup 2010 in South Africa. Great song, the rhythm makes you happy and makes you feel alive, which by the way is the very essence of the world cup. The lyrics are also very powerful and festive, see the site above, when in the verse K'naan says "see the champions take the field now unify us make us feel proud" that's the inner core of the world cup, making people proud by unifying countries from all the corners of the world. In my opinion great song, i could listen to it the whole day...
the original song was the Wavin' Flag and it is too a awesome song, again.. strong lyrics.. check it out:
when i get older i will be
stronger they'll call me freedom just
like a waving flag
and then it goes back (3x)
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 (3x)
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
thats what they say
but look how they treat us
make us believers
we fight there battes
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 wonderingg)
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 (3x)
and then it goes when i get older i will be
stronger they'll call me freedom just
like a wavin flag
and then it goes back (3x)
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 wavin flag
and then it goes back (3x)
and then it goes when i get older i will be
stronger they'll call me freedom just
like a wavin flag
and then it goes back (3x)
a oh a oh a oh
when i get older
when i get older
i will be stronger
just like a wavin flag (3x)
flag flag
just like a wavin flag
stronger they'll call me freedom just
like a waving flag
and then it goes back (3x)
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 (3x)
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
thats what they say
but look how they treat us
make us believers
we fight there battes
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 wonderingg)
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 (3x)
and then it goes when i get older i will be
stronger they'll call me freedom just
like a wavin flag
and then it goes back (3x)
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 wavin flag
and then it goes back (3x)
and then it goes when i get older i will be
stronger they'll call me freedom just
like a wavin flag
and then it goes back (3x)
a oh a oh a oh
when i get older
when i get older
i will be stronger
just like a wavin flag (3x)
flag flag
just like a wavin flag
2 comments:
I love K'naan. I'd heard that he was going to be doing the theme song for the Word Cup, but I hadn't heard this version yet; thanks for posting it.
If you want to see/hear more from him, this link is to a tiny, informal concert he did for one of my favorite radio stations.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=120179188
ameeeeeeeei, vo baixa depoois =))
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