Glory

## Song by Lupe Fiasco

"**Glory**" is a song by American rapper Lupe Fiasco, released as the 10th track from his mixtape, *Fahrenheit 1/15 Part II: Revenge of the Nerds* (2005). It features guest vocals from American singer Opal Staples on the hook.

## Lyrics

**Lyrics**
[Verse 1]

When your spirit is strained

And you limited to change

The lyrics in your limericks'll change

A different hook, the way the sentences arranged

More demented in your deliverance, more sinister in your slang

Sounds more belligerent when it's sang

The truth is limitless in its range

If you drop a 'T' and look at it in reverse it can hurt

Look at the grimaces of the pain

And it's worse when it works and your membership is gained

But you forgetting the proof diminishes in the flames

Like 'poof', the media pours images in your brain

Of the score of the war where militants is slain

The faces of the guilty where innocence is proclaimed

And they filthy, the deaf ears are the winners

The listeners are the lames

Of the ballad of the man that the son of a minister has became

So

[Hook]

Wherefore does my glory go?

Wherefore does my glory go? (Glory, glory)

Wherefore does my glory go?(Wherefore does my glory go?)

Wherefore does my glory go? (Glory, glory)

[Verse 2]

But you gotta understand, our differences is the same

What starts in clouded minds, finishes in the reign

Of the fools that are used as instruments in the game

Where oppression is the queen and ignorance is the king

Where revolution is dead, no candles in its memory

No remembrance of its fame, just a mystery

No mentioning the history of the chain, the enemy

No Hennessy sentiments in its name

Just an unmarked grave that menaces have defamed

With the propaganda, and images of the gangs

A lost art, no apprentices in it trained

And they brainwashed, no interest in its stain

And the minds weary, all the adrenaline in it drained

While the wrecking ball is, disassembling things

Her highness is the cause, his eminence is the blame

The pride is still there, the privileges still remain, but

[Hook]

Wherefore does my glory go?

Wherefore does my glory go? (Glory, glory)

Wherefore does my glory go?(Wherefore does my glory go?)

Wherefore does my glory go? (Glory, glory)

[Verse 3]

And you've gotta respect the position in which you playing

Never let your heart reflect the conditions in which its staying

Even if it's dark, and the temperature is the same

As winters in the Ukraine, your appendages is in chains

Have forgiveness from the start, keep maliciousness restrained

Be smart, never indiscriminate in your aim

'Cos there's innocent witnesses oblivious to the things

That come, the one's the hypnotists keep entertained

And you can't arc, have some resilience in your frame

Stay resistant, and committed to what you sing, 'cos

They'll flip it the minute that you refrain

Read the book and the lines, and literature in between

You gotta be educated when going against the grain

Pay attention, they illegitimate in their claims

They assisted in the killing and pillaging

In addition to the addiction

Shit is much bigger than just them planes, but

[Hook]

Wherefore does my glory go?

Wherefore does my glory go? (Glory, glory)

Wherefore does my glory go?(Wherefore does my glory go?)

Wherefore does my glory go? (Glory, glory)

[Outro]

Wherefore does my glory go?

(Is it on TV? Yeah)

Wherefore does my glory go?

(Maybe it's on a CD?)

Wherefore does my glory go?

(Do you see it when you look at me?)