Текст песни: Glory + перевод

I figured you were the worst

Had me thinking that I adopted

I doubted you ever gave me birth

I hated you first but I hated me most

(You) said I should have been born to a rich family

Probably living on the coast

Used to put me upside down in front of the folks

And under the couch

Put the strokes to my back

And the memories hurt me like ouch

I thought I would die

Thought I was the most miserable young man alive

How could I survive?

So I went and had these dream

And these visions of the day I would die

I remember one night you had me and the folks

Pegged for the whip

You done gave ‘em seven strokes

Then took me and put me under the couch

And gave me twenty-four

Blaming it on a pot of rice

What would I have ate it for?

And I hate it more

That these trust and security issues

Woulda ate me alive as a leader

Scared that every time I failed

I’ll be receiving the whip to my back just as Lupita

But the many times I failed I was putting up the whip to my back in my mind

just like that Silas, Gods own soldier

Now I happily trade those memories at an auction price to the lowest bidder and

live with amnesia

But I think I had forgotten the too many times

The multiple tables had too many times

And I’m pretty much not good at math

So I learned and forgot ‘em

The too many times when I had you crying

And racing through traffic cos I was asthmatic

But we had no harmony

War was our symphony

I cried on my melody

The cracks of your whips and the kicks of your punches informing this rhythm,

I rap to my sorrowing

Ain’t it pretty much ironic?

How you thought I won’t be Joseph

But look who’s been stuck at the bottom of his past been sold to his scars,

and slave to his hurts they bought my monopoly. The days had been stretching

like latex

My rebellion hit the apex

Dad looked me and said;

«She gave you the birth»

And of all women that made you the greatest

Now sing it

O glory, O glory, O glory, O glory, glory

Glory, O glory, O glory, O glory, glory

Glory, O glory, O glory, O glory, glory

Glory, O glory, O glory, O glory, glory

I heard stories of a brother (stories of a brother)

Tales of a river (Ah!)

Choc is in the water (Choc is in the water)

How you gon' end another man who needed a hand but I abandoned you in this

world?

I don’t even remember why you left

Or the time you left

But I also had left you alone cos I felt I was stressed

I failed and you was a test-

I failed to protect you

And leaders are something like parents

But single fathers are pretty terrible at parenthood

So why did I regret?

Why when the news hit me about your death?

Cos regret is worthless when you could of prevent

The death of a loved one who was given to your arms to protect and direct

I’m not always correct

But I insist I would be getting my stand straight

I didn’t say erect like «Homo Erectus»

I shoulda kept you

But I’m a reject too

It’s crazy that a reject even rejects you

If I was faithful, I won’t neglect you

But for a man who couldn’t afford to take a risk faith was an even expense too

Blankets were cheaper and I slept too

Then I dreamt you became a superstar and woke when I heard you were gone

And thought, maybe if I kept you

You wouldn’t have met the miserable company that led you

To the cliff where I heard you were running for your life when you took a dive

into that death pool

Your body went to the bottom but your soul to the top

I called Spys and he told me we ain’t seeing you again

But I never got to picture you for that one last shot

Please pardon my excuses for my failures

I know I could never write this wrong

But if there’s only one consolation I got it’s

We’ll meet up in heaven at the Feet of our Lord

Dressed in that white robe you singing that song of (glory)

O glory, O glory, O glory, O glory, glory

Glory, O glory, O glory, O glory, glory

Glory, O glory, O glory, O glory, glory

Glory, O glory, O glory, O glory, glory

There are those days when I’m stressed from the thought

That you sacrifices may only be burnt offerings which are not even pleasing to

the Lord

The smoke from that offering is gonna be choking your thoughts

I heard that it takes conversations to save your relations

Have you tried building a reputation

When conversation is in a different language from your team which were supposed

to like some close relations?

You’ll learn why Babel never saw its completion

Try building success amidst conflict and confusion

You don’t get completion

Then your Babel becomes Jericho’s demolition

I still feel as though it compares

To the sailor who sailed Titanic to an Iceberg and wrecked this boat into

damage and beyond repairs

Now this place is gonna be flooding with a mess

And your tears are adding to the flood

Hey! You better get up, get a mop and get back to the work!

But what more can you do when your best ain’t enough?

Enny Moses had said of leader that I was the worst, damn!

Those days the failure hung on my neck like it’s a jewelry

Blame it on my foolery

Made them see the fool in me

Made my sacrifices worthless

So you could see the Jew in me

But that brought out the Cain in me

And it was gon' ruin me

I was starting to be losing my sense of responsibility

And even though I feel like you laughing like I’m a joke from a comedian

I promise this time Imma take full responsibility

For all my mistakes, my errors and all my failures

And every time my failures caused you to fail in your

Aiming to take a shot when you aiming only to miss the point

But target practice was created so we could miss the point

Although these points are cardinals I know they not the Pope

Although I missed my way what matters is I make it home!

But until then

I’m at this place where I done had

Enough of your comments that’s flooding my inbox

I’m treating these comments like «Bob»

Like Bob, I’ll spam them and then I’ll be singing

And then I would sing (glory)

O glory, O glory, O glory, O glory, glory

Glory, O glory, O glory, O glory, glory

Glory, O glory, O glory, O glory, glory

Glory, O glory, O glory, O glory, glory