Single of the Day: Common & John Legend - Glory

Oleh: admincd - 24 Feb 2015

Released by: Sony Music Entertainment Indonesia

John Legend sepertinya memang senang mengisi soundtrack sebuah film ya. Kali ini ia membawakan sebuah lagu berjudul 'Glory', yang merupakan lagu tema dari film berjudul "Selma" yang berkisah tentang Martin Luther King, Jr. Legend tidak sendiri di lagu ini karena ia juga dibantu oleh rapper Common yang sekarang lebih sering bermain film.

Berhubung "Selma" merupakan film inspiratif, dan menjadi nomine Film Terbaik OScar pula di tahun ini, maka Common dan John Legend tidak menghadirkan lagunya menjadi sebuah lagu hip-hop, melainkan sebuah balada penuh semangat dan antemik yang menggugah. Sesuai dengan aspek tematis filmnya tentu saja.

Tujuan 'Glory' adalah membangun semangat anthem dan megah, dan tugas itu tidak hanya dibangun oleh vokal Legend, yang seperti biasa, bisa diandalkan dalam hal ini. Kemegahan lagu juga dibangun melalui aransemen yang mengandung melodi yang mendukung untuk itu, melodramatis dan menggugah. Dan tugas musik latar adalah membungkus lagunya, agar kesan megah tadi bisa tersampirkan.

Baik Legend dan Common menjalankan tugas mereka dengan baik, terutama Legend yang terdengar sangat menghahati, sehingga esensi lagunya bisa tesampaikan dengan dengan baik. Tidak heran jika kita, pendengarnya, merasa larut dan tergugah oleh semangatnya.

Karena lagu yang ditulis oleh John Stephens, Lonnie Lynn, dan Che Smith ini memang memiliki kualitas yang tidak main-main, tidak heran jika lagu ini pun menyabet penghargaan dimana-mana. Setelah memenangkan "Best Original Song" di Golden Globes di awal tahun ini, lagi-lagi 'Glory' menyabet kemenangan di Oscar yang berlangsung kemarin. Selamat. Well deserved!

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(Haris / CreativeDisc Contributor)

LYRIC

One day when the glory comes

It will be ours, it will be ours

Oh one day when the war is won

We will be sure, we will be sure

Oh glory (Glory, glory)

Oh (Glory, glory)

Hands to the Heavens, no man, no weapon

Formed against, yes glory is destined

Every day women and men become legends

Sins that go against our skin become blessings

The movement is a rhythm to us

Freedom is like religion to us

Justice is juxtapositionin' us

Justice for all just ain't specific enough

One son died, his spirit is revisitin' us

Truant livin' livin' in us, resistance is us

That's why Rosa sat on the bus

That's why we walk through Ferguson with our hands up

When it go down we woman and man up

They say, "Stay down", and we stand up

Shots, we on the ground, the camera panned up

King pointed to the mountain top and we ran up

One day when the glory comes

It will be ours, it will be ours

Oh one day when the war is won

We will be sure, we will be sure

Oh glory (Glory, glory)

Oh (Glory, glory)

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 (Glory, glory)

Oh (Glory, glory)

We'll cry glory, oh glory (Glory, glory)

Oh (Glory, glory)

Selma's now for every man, woman and child

Even Jesus got his crown in front of a crowd

They marched with the torch, we gon' run with it now

Never look back, we done gone hundreds of miles

From dark roads he rose, to become a hero

Facin' the league of justice, his power was the people

Enemy is lethal, a king became regal

Saw the face of Jim Crow under a bald eagle

The biggest weapon is to stay peaceful

We sing, our music is the cuts that we bleed through

Somewhere in the dream we had an epiphany

Now we right the wrongs in history

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

One day when the glory comes

It will be ours, it will be ours

Oh one day when the war is won

We will be sure, we will be sure

Oh glory (Glory, glory)

Oh (Glory, glory)

Oh glory (Glory, glory)

Hey (Glory, glory)

When the war is won, when it's all said and done

We'll cry glory (Glory, glory)

Oh (Glory, glory)

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