Common & John Legend, “Glory” | Music Lifts 🎶 🏋

In the 11^th edition of Lit Music That Lifts (2022), we’re uplifted by Common & John Legend performing their Academy Award-winning record, “Glory.”

Welcome to Lit Music That Lifts (LMTL), or Music Lifts 🎶 🏋 for short! Music Lifts 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 11^th edition of Music Lifts 🎶 🏋 (2022), we highlight 🎵 “Glory” as performed by 🎙 Common and 🎙 John Legend.

“One day, when the glory comes / It will be ours, it will be ours,” John Legend sings in the chorus of the spirited, uplifting 🏆 Academy-award-winning song, 🎵 “Glory”. He and Common have a truly special record which appeared in the 2014 🏆 Academy Award-nominated film, 🎦 Selma.  Legend continues singing with incredible resolve in the chorus, “One day, when the war is won / We will be sure, we will be sure / Oh glory.

Beyond Legend’s incredibly soulful pipes during the chorus, and later, the bridge,   Common nails it during the verses with potent, prudent rhymes.  His flow is amazing, and his wordplay is incredibly savvy.  In the first verse, he spits, “Freedom is like religion to us / Justice is juxtapositionin’ us / Justice for all just ain’t specific enough / One son died, his spirit is revisiting us…” Woo! The inspiration continues in the second verse, with Common proclaiming, “Selma is now for every man, woman, and child / Even Jesus got his crown in front of a crowd,” and “No one can win the war individually / It takes the wisdom of the elders and young people’s energy / Welcome to the story we call victory / The comin’ of the Lord, my eyes have seen the glory.”

The poetic nature of the lyrics, as well as the sincerity, is tremendous!  Highlighting Legend once again,  vocally, he slaughters, ‘spoiling us’ with his masterful falsetto. Not only does he pierce with his grit, but he also hypnotizes us with his subtleties and nuance.  The bridge that is where his bread is buttered:

“Now the war is not over, victory isn’t won

And we’ll fight on to the finish, then when it’s all done

We’ll cry glory, oh glory.”

Approaching a decade later, this is a powerful, incredibly memorable record.  It is the exemplification of Lit Music That Lifts (LMTL).

Appears in 🔻:

• Oscar Winners for Best Original Song, 2005 – 2015
• 10 Songs That Exhibit Spirit

🎙 Common & John Legend • 🎵 “Glory” • 🏷 ARTium / Def Jam / UMG Recordings / Getting Out Our Dreams / Columbia / Sony • 📅 2014

Common & John Legend: Music Lifts 🎶 🏋 No. 11 (2022) [📷: Arek Socha, ARTium, Benjamin Balazs, Brent Faulkner, Clker-Free-Vector-Images, Columbia, Curb, Def Jam, Getting Out Our Dreams, Ketut Subiyanto, The Musical Hype, Pexels, Pixabay, Sony, UMG Recordings, Word Entertainment]