Chorus: Kanye West B Ebm7 Db Tell me if you know someone that needs -Jesus, Lord- Bbm B Now we've been through a lot of things Ebm7 Db Tell me if you know someone that needs -Jesus, Lord- Bbm B He lives in a lot of things Ebm7 Db Tell me if you know someone that needs -Jesus, Lord- Bbm B Been through a lot of things Ebm7 Db Bbm Tell me if you know someone that needs -Jesus, Lord- Verse 1: Kanye West B Sittin' by myself, I'm just thinkin' Ebm7 About all I've been through, I wish I was dreamin' Db Man, it's hard to be an angel when you surrounded by demons -Jesus- Bbm I watched so many people leave -Lord- Bbm I see 'em change by the season, that's mama's sеasonin' B God got you, the devil's watchin', he just peekin' in Ebm7 I know I madе a promise that I'd never let the reaper in -Jesus- Db But lately, I've been losin' all my deepest friends -Lord- Bbm And lately, I've been swimmin' on the deepest end B It's just drugs, it ain't no hugs, it ain't no love there Ebm7 You been down so much you don't even know what's upstairs -Jesus- Db Suicidal thoughts got you wonderin' what's up there -Lord- Bbm And while I Introduce the party, you say it's up there B Too many pills, so much potions, so much pain, too many emotions Ebm7 And everything that you do good, it just go unnoticed -Jesus- Db Did He tell you that you good and just stay focused? -Lord- Bbm Mama, you was the life of the party B I swear you brought life to the party Ebm7 When you lost your life, it took the life out the party -Jesus- Db That woman rode with me like a Harley -Lord- Bbm Visions of my cousins in a cell really scarred me B Movin' to the hood was like signin' up for the army Ebm7 'Cause they been killin' since was watchin' Barney -Jesus- Db You want dreams to come true? But I have nightmares -Lord- Bbm 'Cause if that come to life, then I might not be right here B Been in the dark so long, don't know if the light here Ebm7 But I'm just reaching for the stars like Buzz Lightyear -Jesus- Db And now I'm lightyears ahead of those nightmares -Lord- Bbm I deaded those night terrors when the night clears B And if I talk to Christ, can I bring my mother back to life? Ebm7 And if I die tonight, will I see her in the afterlife? -Jesus- Db But back to reality, where everything's a tragedy -Lord- Bbm You better have a strategy or you could be a statistic B Little boy dies, he's just one of the mystic Ebm7 And mama steady crying 'cause she really the victim -Jesus- Db And she's getting high and she's getting addicted -Lord- Bbm And her older boy just stuck with the picture, painted vivid B That's a family portrait, and her daughter just absorbed it Ebm7 Sixteen, pregnant, baby daddy say she should abort it -Jesus- Db But we can't afford it, so she decides to move forward -Lord- Bbm Baby shower time, father didn't show up B Now she just feeling nauseous like she finna throw up Ebm7 The water flows down her legs, yeah, it's finna go up -Jesus- Db a year done went by, her daughter just turned one -Lord- Bbm And she's still dependent on her mom B Big brother in the streets, he went and bought him a gun Ebm7 He want revenge 'cause the pain, feelin' numb -Jesus- Db And her mom still doing drugs 'cause that's the only time she feel loved -Lord- Bbm Is it real love? Do the scars really heal up? B Ebm7 From all the pain that done built up, but they don't feel us -Jesus- Db a week done flew by, big bro ridin' then he see the guys -Lord- Bbm Left his little brother on the side, bleeding from the side B He seein' red, it's like he's bleeding through his eyes Ebm7 To see him dead, the only thing that'll help the grieving up inside Db -Jesus- Even let him get they last meal Bbm He done with the streets after this, this his last kill -Lord- B He gotta show him that it's that real Ebm7 He ran up on him with the pipe like, " , stand still" -Jesus- Db "You took my brother life, you made my mother cry" -Lord- Bbm "Tell me one reason I shouldn't send you up to Christ" B He said, "Go 'head, take my life, I've seen everything but Christ" Ebm7 Db Bbm Then big bro just blacked out and all you seen was the light -Jesus, Lord- Chorus: Kanye West: B Ebm7 Db Bbm Tell me if you know someone that needs -Jesus, Lord- Verse 2: Jay Electronica B Uh-huh, in the name of the true and living God, the beneficent, the merciful -Hallelujah- Ebm7 Thank you for bringing me up the rough side of the mountain like Ertuğrul -Jesus- Db Every knee bowed and every tongue confessed and paid homage -Lord- Bbm To the monk who visited Rothschilds like Thelonious did Pannonica -Shoo- B It's Jay Elec-entendre-nica comin' through your monitor Ebm7 Back from the great beyond like the Son of Man or the Son of Donda? -Jesus- Db I never rolled the GSXR or the R6 or the Honda -Lord- Bbm But I flew my Ducati through North America like Wakanda B Earthquakes will strike this nation for what Bush did to Rwanda -Facts- Ebm7 What the Clintons did to Haiti and Downing Street did to Ghana -Jesus- Db In Tenochtitlan, they call me Terremoto, El Negro Loco -Lord- Bbm I shake the tectonic plates of the game if I lay one vocal B The God is interstellar while you fellas remain local Ebm7 My bars is like the pyramid temples of Pacal Votan -Jesus- Db As sure as the DOJ confirmed Ezekiel's Wheel -Lord- Bbm I could change the world like Yacub with two pieces of steel B My sword and my microphone, I swore to the Christ's throne Ebm7 But when you great, they wanna say you took a L, José Castille -Jesus- Db I'm in the fight here, fight here for what seemed like lightyears -Lord- Bbm My rugged cross and thorny crowns squeeze out Christ tears B Thirty pieces of silver clout, my Pierre price tier Ebm7 It's a war outside, it's a war outside -Jesus- Db Bbm It's like the last days of Sodom and Gomorrah outside -Lord- Chorus: Kanye West B Ebm7 Db Tell me if you know someone that needs -Jesus, Lord- Bbm B Now we've been through a lot of things Ebm7 Db Tell me if you know someone that needs -Jesus, Lord- Bbm B He lives in a lot of things Ebm7 Db Tell me if you know someone that needs -Jesus, Lord- Bbm B Been through a lot of things Ebm7 Db Tell me if you know someone that needs -Jesus, Lord- Outro: Larry Hoover Jr. & Kanye West: Bbm B What up, Ye? This Larry Hoover Jr Ebm7 First and foremost, I wanna thank you for taking the fight for my father to the Oval Office Db You might not have been the only one that could've did that Bbm But you were the one that did do that B Ebm7 And with your assistance, we can continue to let the world take part in this fight Db You know, to me, it kinda feels like Bbm Me, my mother, my brothers, and my kids B Have all been incarcerated through this journey Ebm7 And we haven't even been to jail Db We have been looked at and treated as criminals For being a part of this family Bbm B My father's truth and the reality that he raised me in Ebm7 Is that he wanted to make a change in this community -Tell me if you know someone that needs- Db 'Cause the conditions in this capitalist society is what made him And it is what made the children of today Bbm B After twenty-five years of bein' locked down, twenty-three and one Ebm7 Db My father has not called any shots from one of the most secure and segregated prisons in the world Bbm B And will not, once released, call any shots for the Gangster Disciples Ebm7 Db If my father's intentions were to lead us to death, destruction Into the Hell that he has had to live in for the past twenty-six years Bbm B Man, he would be dead to me Ebm7 I didn't sign up for that Db I didn't stay on this journey this long for that All my life, man Bbm B I've been waitin' for my father to come home Ebm7 Db They told me when I graduate eighth grade, he would be home Bbm B Then they told me when I graduate from high school, he would be home Ebm7 Db I went away to Morris Brown, I graduated and he still ain't home Bbm B Now I'm a adult, and my daughter went away to college and graduated Ebm7 He still not home Db Now even more than that, my son, he graduated eighth grade and we still waitin' Bbm B Matter of fact, he hasn't hugged, kissed, or touched any of his grandchildren Ebm7 And they haven't been able to touch they grandfather Db Even though it is not seen that way for some of us Bbm B But for many of us, Larry Hoover is a beacon of hope for his community Ebm7 Who deserves to breathe free air Db -nc- Free my father -Jesus-, Mr. Larry Hoover Sr. -Lord-
