What does Wavin' Flag mean?

K'naan: Wavin' Flag Meaning

Tagged: Freedom [suggest]
Album cover for Wavin' Flag album cover

Song Released: 2009


Wavin' Flag Lyrics


Give me freedom, give me fire, give me reason, take me higher
See the champions, take the field now, you define us, make us feel proud

In the streets our heads are lifting, as we lose our inhibition,
Celebration, it's around us, every nations,...

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  1. anonymous
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     Sep 19th 2019 !⃝

    Freedom.

  2. anonymous
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     Jun 9th 2017 !⃝

    This song encourages people to stay faithful, even when they are struggling with their lives. I think through this song the artist is trying to portray his dream of blacks and whites co-existing together in freedom and unity. He thinks that together both can become stronger and change things, like the Romans did (“Born to a throne, stronger than Rome”). People living in Ghettos are violent-prone, poor (“but violent-prone, poor people zone, But it's my home, all I have known, where I got grown, streets we would roam”). These ghettos can change people and make them violent prone. K’naan encourages people to stay united in a common cause for the good of everyone. He is trying to convince everyone to rise up against the oppressors, and to recognize their injustices ("But look how they treat us, make us believers. We fight their battles then they deceive us"). The title of the song, “Wavin’ Flag”, represents freedom, pride and strength. Freedom, here, to the artist does not only mean as a country but also freedom from the hardships he faced in life.


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