Glory [Lupe Fiasco].

When your spirit is strained and you're limited to change,
the lyrics in your limericks will change;
a different hook, the way the sentences are arranged,
more demented in your deliverance, more sinister in your slang
sounds more belligerent when its sang.
The TRUTH...
is limitless in it's range.
If you, drop a "T" and look at it in reverse, 
It could HURT. 
Look at the grimaces of the pain,
and it's worse when it works, and your membership is gained,
but you're 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're 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.


But you gotta understand our differences are the same.
What starts in clouded minds, finishes in the rain.
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 rememberance 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 the trained,
and they're brainwashed, no interest in the stain
and their mind's weary all the adrenaline in the drain
while the wrecking balls are... disassembling things.
Our highness is the cause, its imminence is the blame;
the pride is still here, the pillaging still remains.

And you gotta respect the position in which you're playing;
never let your heart reflect the conditions in which you're staying,
even if it’s dark, and the temperature is the same
as winters in the Ukraine, you're appendages is in chains.
Have forgiveness from the start, keep maliciousness restrained.
Be smart, never indiscriminate in your aim,
'cause its innocent witnesses are oblivious to the things
that come to ones that hypnotists keep entertained.
And you can't arch, have some resilience in your frame.
Stay resistant and committed to what you're saying
'cause they'll flip it the minute that you refrain.
Read the books and the lines, and literature in between.
You gotta be educated when going against the grain.
Pay attention, they're illegitimate in their claims.
They assisted in the killing and pillaging,
in addition to the addiction, shit is much bigger than just the planes.