Glory by Common featuring John Legend (2014)

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Glory is a song released on December 11, 2014 by Columbia Records and performed by American rapper Common featuring John Legend. The hip hop song was a theme song from film Selma (2014), which portrays the Selma to Montgomery marches in 1965. Based on the US Billboard Hot 100, Glory reached at number 49 and won the award at the 87th Academy Awards (2015) and the 72nd Golden Globe Awards (2015) as the Best Original Song, as well as the award won at the the 58th Annual Grammy Awards (2016) as the Best Song Written for Visual Media. [1]

Common featuring John Legend

Key Lyrics

Hands to the Heavens, no man, no weapon

Formed against, yes glory is destined

Every day women and men become legends

Sins that go against our skin become blessings

The movement is a rhythm to us

Freedom is like religion to us

Justice is juxtaposition in us

Justice for all just ain't specific enough

One son died, his spirit is revisitin' us

Truant livin' livin' 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, we on the ground, the camera panned up

King pointed to the mountain top and we ran up

One day, when the glory comes

It will be ours, it will be ours

Oh, one day, when the war is one

We will be sure, we will be here sure [2]

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