"Glory" by Common and John Legend

“GLORY”

 By Common & John Legend
(From the "Selma" movie soundtrack)

One Day . . .                                                                                                      
When the Glory comes . . .                                                            
It will be ours . . .                                                             
It will be ours . . .                                              


00:12
Ohh . . .

One day . . .                                                                                                        
When the war is won . . .                                                              
We will be sure . . .                                                          
We will be sure . . .                                        


00:22
Ohh

Glory  . . .                                                                                                          
Glory . . .
Oohh  Glory . . . . Ooooh,
Glory . . .


00:36
 Hands to the heavens . . .                                                                             
No man, no weapons                                                                   
Formed against just-glory is destined . . .                           
                                                                                                   

Every day women and men become legends                                    
Sins that go against our skin become blessings . . .                          
   

00:47
The movement is a rhythm to us                                                            
Freedom is like religion to us                                                 
Justice is jux-ta-position in us . . .                                                             
     Justice for all just ain’t specific enough . . .               
   
               

00:58
One son died . . .                                                                                            
His spirit is revisited us . . .                                                        
True and living / living in us…                                                                      
Resistance is us . . .                                                                       

That’s why Rosa sat on the bus . . .                                                           .
                That’s why we walk through Ferguson                               
. . . with our hands up . . .                                                          

When it go down . . .                                                                                                      
We woman and man up . .  .                                                                                       

They say ‘stay down’ . . .                                                                                             .
. . .  and we ‘stand up’ . . .                                                                                            

Shots be on the ground                                                                                
                The camera panned up . . .                                                                           

King pointed to the mountain-top . . .                                                                     
. . .  and we ran up . . .                                                                                     



01:22
One day                                                                                                                               
When the Glory comes . . .
It will be ours . . .
It will be ours . . .



01:41
Ohh . . . Glory . . .                                                                                                               
(2) Glory
(3) Glory
                (4) Glory

01:41
(5) Glory . . .


Now the war is not over,                                                                                            
VIC-TORY isn’t won . . .
Be we’ll fight on to the finish . . .
Then when it’s all done . . .
We’ll cry Glory . . . (Glory)
Ohhh, Glory . . . (Glory . . .)
Oooohhh, Glory
 . . . Glory


02:27
Selma is now for every man-woman-and-child . . .                                         
Even Jesus got His crown in front of a crowd . . .                            

They marked with the torch                                                                                     
We’re gone run with it now . . .      
                                        
Never look back                                                                                                             
We done gone hundreds of miles . . .         
                                         
From dark roads, he rose,                                                                                          
To become a hero . . .                                                                                     
Facing the League of Justice . .                                                                                  .
His problem was the people . . .

Enemy is lethal . . .
                But King became regal . . .
Saw the face of Jim Crow under a bald eagle . . .

The biggest weapon . . . is to stay peaceful
               We sing . . . our music is the cuts that we bleed through
Somewhere in the dream we had an epiphany . . . 
               Now we right the wrongs in history

 No one can win the war individually . . .
 It takes the wisdom of the Elders . . .
                                And young-peoples’ energy  . . .

Welcome to the story we call ‘Vic-Tory’ . . .                                                           
The coming of The Lord . . . my eyes have seen the glory . . .      

One day, when the glory comes                                                                               
It will be ours . . .
                It will be ours
Oh . .. Glory

 One day, when the war is won
We will be sure
              We will be sure


03:33
Glory                                                                                                                                    
Glory
Glory . . .
Glory . . .

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