Glory (Finish Hard) - Marco Polo, A.G., Dion Jenkins

Did you know, did you know?

We took this straight from the garden

Give it now, give it

If we don’t hit the target

It’s the beginning

We going back where it started

It’s the beginning

If we don’t finish hard

I been out here tryna save us

Since the first wack shit signed to majors

Ever since Hammer danced on stages

And Word Up magazine and Rap Pages hit the stands

I learned how to get the fans

Learned how to build shit with my hands, from the ground up

Foundations laid down, turn the sound up

But look how this shit wound up

After doing everything a man could ever do

It didn’t really matter much, I never knew

The game was so cold, I should’ve worn my big parka

‘Cause when you think you see the light, that’s when it gets darker

But in my heart though, I do believe

If you put out more love than you receive

It’s bound to come back around eventually

And that’d be the day when you mention me

Prepare for glory

I love my life

And if it ain’t a struggle than it ain’t a story

And if it ain’t real than don’t record me

Carry the torch for those before me

I fall, I rise, I crawl, I fly

And either way it go, we come back better

Now we laugh forever

Life’s so varied, the days get heavy

Escape into a zone, my soul take control

Fall, rise, then fall, I rise

Repeat these steps until they call my demise

Torae told me keep flaming ‘em homie

A class by myself, some days I get lonely

Success got me numb

But the failure make it realer than before

What I scribble so visual

Wrote it in blood, tears spilling on the floor

Dancing in the rain, throw a party when you’re poor

I’m raw, R-A-W

A terrorist here to bring trouble to the

The days that came, I ain’t been the same

A permanent flat-top fade on my brain, I’m high

And it’s not from the weed I inhale

‘Cause I made it and the feeling’s so rare

This ain’t hood conquer-all rap

This ain’t player play a baller in all caps

And understand that one cop can’t stop no riot

One «shhh» can’t make the crowd no quiet

We feast on a diet of injustice

Pride been swallowed but won’t fall, a burnt down

Building in New York or the building’s that bombed

In Iraq is viewed like art on the wall

Through the eyes of a child with vision this blurred

A book never read be the song never heard

But the word is the purpose, we can’t stick together

If you let life become such a non-stick surface

Learn to walk cool before we learn to walk upright

Now know the game of society’s uptights

Who don’t want to see us derailed off the negative track

Like crabs in a barrel they want to pull you back

But life lesson’s got us progressin'

From ghetto to get-to, get to work

Get to freedom, nigga small

We push through gravity’s hold on it all

«Okay, now you and I. .

.»

«Yeah»

«.. .

have to come up with an ending for this album.»

«Just end it.»

«We can’t do it.

It’s gotta have.

.

.»

«There's the ending right there.

You’re yawning.

Everyone’s bored to death.

I know I am.»