A# Dm7 Tell me if you know someone that
C needs (Jesus, Lord)
Am A#Now we've been through a lot of
things
Dm7Tell me if you know someone that
Cneeds (Jesus, Lord)
Am A#He lives in a lot of things
Dm7Tell me if you know someone that
Cneeds (Jesus, Lord)
Am A#Been through a lot of things
Dm7Tell me if you know someone that
C Amneeds (Jesus, Lord)
[Verse 1: Kanye West]
A#Sittin' by myself, I'm just thinkin'
Dm7About all I've been through, I wish
I was dreamin'
CMan, it's hard to be an angel when
you surrounded by demons (Jesus)
AmI watched so many people leave
(Lord)
I see 'em change by the season,
Amthat's mama's sеasonin'
A#God got you, the devil's watchin',
he just peekin' in
Dm7I know I madе a promise that I'd
never let the reaper in (Jesus)
CBut lately, I've been losin' all my
deepest friends (Lord)
And lately, I've been swimmin' on
Amthe deepest end
A# It's just drugs, it ain't no hugs,
it ain't no love there
Dm7 You been down so much you don't
even know what's upstairs (Jesus)
C Suicidal thoughts got you
wonderin' what's up there (Lord)
And while I introduce the party, you
Am say it's up there
A#Too many pills, so much potions, so
much pain, too many emotions
Dm7 And everything that you do good,
it just go unnoticed (Jesus)
C Did He tell you that you good
and just stay focused? (Lord)
AmMama, you was the life of the party
A# I swear you brought life to the
party
Dm7 When you lost your life, it took
the life out the party (Jesus)
C That woman rode with me like a
Harley (Lord)
Visions of my cousins in a cell
Amreally scarred me
A# Movin' to the hood was like
signin' up for the army
Dm7'Cause they been killin' **** since
**** was watchin' Barney (Jesus)
CYou want dreams to come true? But I
have nightmares (Lord)
'Cause if that come to life, then I
Ammight not be right here
A#Been in the dark so long, don't know
if the light here
Dm7But I'm just reaching for the stars
like Buzz Lightyear (Jesus)
CAnd now I'm lightyears ahead of
those nightmares (Lord)
I deaded those night terrors when
Amthe night clears
A#And if I talk to Christ, can I bring
my mother back to life?
Dm7And if I die tonight, will I see her
in the afterlife? (Jesus)
CBut back to reality, where
everything's a tragedy (Lord)
You better have a strategy or you
Amcould be a statistic
A#Little boy dies, he's just one of
the mystic
Dm7And mama steady crying 'cause she
really the victim (Jesus)
CAnd she's getting high and she's
getting addicted (Lord)
And her older boy just stuck with
Amthe picture, painted vivid
A#That's a family portrait, and her
daughter just absorbed it
Dm7Sixteen, pregnant, baby daddy say
she should abort it (Jesus)
CBut we can't afford it, so she
decides to move forward (Lord)
Am up
A#Now she just feeling nauseous like
she finna throw up
Dm7The water flows down her legs, yeah,
it's finna go up (Jesus)
CA year done went by, her daughter
just turned one (Lord)
And she's still dependent on her mom
Am
A#Big brother in the streets, he went
and bought him a gun
Dm7He want revenge 'cause the pain,
feelin' numb (Jesus)
CAnd her mom still doing drugs 'cause
that's the only time she feel loved
(Lord)
Is it real love? Do the scars really
Am heal up?
A# From all the pain that done
Dm7built up, but they don't feel us
(Jesus)
CA week done flew by, big bro ridin'
then he see the guys (Lord)
Left his little brother on the side,
Am bleeding from the side
A# He seein' red, it's like he's
bleeding through his eyes
Dm7To see him dead, the only thing
that'll help the grieving up inside
C(Jesus) Even let him get they last
meal
He done with the streets after this,
Am this his last kill (Lord)
A# He gotta show him that it's that
real
Dm7He ran up on him with the pipe like,
"****, stand still" (Jesus)
C "You took my brother life, you
made my mother cry" (Lord)
Am"Tell me one reason I shouldn't send
you up to Christ"
A#He said, "Go 'head, take my life,
I've seen everything but Christ"
Dm7Then big bro just blacked out and
Call you seen was the light (Jesus,
AmLord)
[Chorus: Kanye West]
A# Dm7 Tell me if you know someone
C Amthat needs (Jesus, Lord)
[Verse 2: Jay Electronica]
A#Uh-huh, in the name of the true and
living God, the beneficent, the
merciful (Hallelujah)
Dm7Thank you for bringing me up the
rough side of the mountain like
Ertuğrul (Jesus)
CEvery knee bowed and every tongue
confessed and paid homage (Lord)
To the monk who visited Rothschilds
Amlike Thelonious did Pannonica (Shoo)
A#It's Jay Elec-entendre-nica comin'
through your monitor
Dm7Back from the great beyond like the
Son of Man or the Son of Donda?
(Jesus)
CI never rolled the GSXR or the R6 or
the Honda (Lord)
But I flew my Ducati through North
AmAmerica like Wakanda
A#Earthquakes will strike this nation
for what Bush did to Rwanda (Facts)
Dm7What the Clintons did to Haiti and
Downing Street did to Ghana (Jesus)
CIn Tenochtitlan, they call me
Terremoto, El Negro Loco (Lord)
I shake the tectonic plates of the
Amgame if I lay one vocal
A#The God is interstellar while you
fellas remain local
Dm7My bars is like the pyramid temples
of Pacal Votan (Jesus)
CAs sure as the C J confirmed
Ezekiel's Wheel (Lord)
I could change the world like Yacub
Amwith two pieces of steel
A#My sword and my microphone, I swore
to the Christ's throne
Dm7But when you great, they wanna say
you took a L, José Castille (Jesus)
CI'm in the fight here, fight here
for what seemed like lightyears
(Lord)
My rugged cross and thorny crowns
Amsqueeze out Christ tears
A#Thirty pieces of silver clout, my
Pierre price tier
Dm7It's a war outside, it's a war
outside (Jesus)
CIt's like the last days of Sodom
Amand Gomorrah outside (Lord)
[Chorus: Kanye West]
A# Dm7 Tell me if you know someone that
C needs (Jesus, Lord)
Am A#Now we've been through a lot of
things
Dm7Tell me if you know someone that
Cneeds (Jesus, Lord)
Am A#He lives in a lot of things
Dm7Tell me if you know someone that
Cneeds (Jesus, Lord)
Am A#Been through a lot of things
Dm7Tell me if you know someone that
Cneeds (Jesus, Lord)
[Outro: Larry Hoover Jr. & Kanye
West]
Am A#What up, Ye? This Larry Hoover Jr
First and foremost, I wanna thank
Dm7you for taking the fight for my
father to the Oval Office
C You might not have been the only
one that could've did that
AmBut you were the one that did do
that
A# And with your assistance, we can
Dm7 continue to let the world take part
in this fight
CYou know, to me, it kinda feels like
Me, my mother, my brothers, and my
Amkids
A#Have all been incarcerated through
this journey
Dm7And we haven't even been to jail
CWe have been looked at and treated
as criminals
For being a part of this family
Am A#My father's truth and the reality
that he raised me in
Dm7Is that he wanted to make a change
in this community (Tell me if you
know someone that needs)
'Cause the conditions in this
Ccapitalist society is what made him
And it is what made the children of
today
Am A#After twenty-five years of bein'
locked down, twenty-three and one
Dm7My father has not called any shots
Cfrom one of the most secure and
segregated prisons in the world
AmAnd will not, once released, call
A#any shots for the Gangster Disciples
Dm7If my father's intentions were to
Clead us to death, destruction
Into the Hell that he has had to
live in for the past twenty-six
years
Am A# Man, he would be dead to me
Dm7 I didn't sign up for that
CI didn't stay on this journey this
long for that
All my life, man
Am A#I've been waitin' for my father to
come home
Dm7They told me when I graduate eighth
C grade, he would be home
AmThen they told me when I
A#graduate from high school, he would
be home
Dm7 I went away to Morris Brown, I
C graduated and he still ain't home
Now I'm a adult, and my daughter
Am A#went away to college and graduated
Dm7He still not home
CNow even more than that, my son, he
graduated eighth grade and we still
waitin'
Am A#Matter of fact, he hasn't hugged,
kissed, or touched any of his
grandchildren
Dm7 And they haven't been able to
touch they grandfather
CEven though it is not seen that way
for some of us
Am A#But for many of us, Larry Hoover is
a beacon of hope for his community
Dm7Who deserves to breathe free air
C N.C.
Free my father (Jesus), Mr. Larry
Hoover Sr. (Lord)