Glory

[Lupe]
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 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 forgetting the proof diminishes in the flames
Like poof, the media pours images in your brain
Of the score of the war where militants are 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

[Chorus]
Wherefore does my glory go? (glory, glory)
Wherefore does my glory go? (Wherefore does me glory go)
Wherefore does my glory go?

[Lupe]
But you gotta understand our differences is the same
What starts in clouded minds finishes in the rain
Now 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 it's fame, just a mystery
No mentioned in the history of the chained, 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 brainwashed, no interest in this thing
Then the minds weary, only adrenaline and a dream
While the wrecking balls is disassembling things
Her highness is the cause, his eminence is to blame
The pride is still here, the privileges still remain, but

[Chorus]
Wherefore does my glory go? (Wherefore does me glory go)
Wherefore does my glory go? (glory, glory)
Wherefore does my glory go? (Wherefore does me glory go)
Wherefore does my glory go? (glory, glory)

[Lupe]
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
Appendages is in chains, have forgiveness from the start
Keep maliciousness restrained, be smart
Never indiscriminate in your aim,
Cause it's innocent witnesses oblivious to the things
Become the ones hypnotists keep entertained
And you can't uhh [grunt?], have some resilience in your frame
Stay resistant, and committed to what you saying
Cause they'll flip it the minute that you refrain
Read the book, and the lines, and literature in between
Cause you gotta be educated when going against the grain
Pay attention, they illegitimate in they claims
They assisted in the killing and pillaging
In addition to the addiction, shit is much bigger than just in plain, but

[Chorus]
Wherefore does my glory go? (go, go, go)
Wherefore does my glory go? (Wherefore does my glory go/glory, glory)
Wherefore does my glory go? (Wherefore, wherefore does my glory go?)
Wherefore does my glory go? (glory, glory)
Wherefore does my glory go?
Is it on, on TV?
Wherefore does my glory go?
Maybe it's on a CD
Wherefore does my glory go?
Do you sing when you look at me?
Wherefore does my glory go?
Sing, baby tell me