Anthony Hamilton, Never Give Up | Music Lifts 🎶 🏋

In the 30^th edition of Music Lifts (2023), we’re uplifted by Grammy-winning R&B singer/songwriter Anthony Hamilton performing, “Never Give Up.”

Welcome to Music Lifts 🎶 🏋, a column that seeks to highlight songs that encourage, inspire, and uplift the spirit; songs that exude fortitude, positivity, and resolve, even in the face of adversity.  Featured songs aren’t genre-specific; songs may or may not be faith-based. The goal is for these songs to make you feel better – be LIFTED to new heights!  So, for the 30^th edition of Music Lifts 🎶 🏋 (2023), we highlight 🎵 “Never Give Up ” as performed by 🎙 Anthony Hamilton.

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“Our Father / Who are in heaven / Hear my cry / Hear my cry / Now.” 🎙 Anthony Hamilton commences 🎵 “Never Give Up” with a petition to God.  When you can’t talk to anybody else about adversity, trials, and tribulations, there is one person who is always there, who’ll hear your cry.  Throughout the verses of this highlight from Hamilton’s 2007 compilation album, 💿 Southern Comfort, he paints a bleak picture. Clearly things are bad. He commences the first verse, singing, “Been touched again , rain on me / Down on my luck, got chains on me,” continuing, “I lost a job to gain a child / The road is long, but I’m losing time.” Life can be tough, something Anthony illustrates vividly on “Never Give Up.”

There is more misfortune throughout “Never Give Up.” In the second verse, Hamilton sings, “Baby June is off to war / While his little girl’s just turned four / No birthday cakes, no candles lit / Just a photo of his family in his wallet.” Despite the hardships and pain, on behalf of the characters in the scenarios he sings about, Hamilton looks to the Hills in the chorus, the centerpiece:

“Never let me give up

I can’t stop trying

I can’t stop crying

To water the flowers to make me smile

Never let me give up

‘Cause I’ve got a family

And with all the strength in me

It won’t let me give up.”

To reiterate, life is hard – it can break you down. Still, it is important not to give up despite adversity, even when it feels like it might be easier to give up.  It is important to stay strong and, like Anthony Hamilton on 🎵 “Never Give Up”, stay prayed up 🙏. The 🏆 Grammy winner and 🎼 ✍ 🎛 Cedric Solomon (co-writer and producer) nailed it on this soulful joint!

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🎙 Anthony Hamilton • 💿 Southern Comfort • 🏷 Tappy Whyte’s Music / Merovingian Music Ltd. • 📅 2007

Anthony Hamilton, “Never Give Up”: Music Lifts 🎶 🏋 No. 30 (2023) [📷: Brent Faulkner / The Musical Hype; Tappy Whyte’s Music / Merovingian Music Ltd.; cottonbro studio, Itzel Sandoval, Neeraj Nagdeve via Pexels]