F Am7 Tell me if you know someone that
G needs (Jesus, Lord)
Em FNow we've been through a lot of
things
Am7Tell me if you know someone that
Gneeds (Jesus, Lord)
Em FHe lives in a lot of things
Am7Tell me if you know someone that
Gneeds (Jesus, Lord)
Em FBeen through a lot of things
Am7Tell me if you know someone that
G Emneeds (Jesus, Lord)
[Verse 1: Kanye West]
FSittin' by myself, I'm just thinkin'
Am7About all I've been through, I wish
I was dreamin'
GMan, it's hard to be an angel when
you surrounded by demons (Jesus)
EmI watched so many people leave
(Lord)
I see 'em change by the season,
Emthat's mama's sеasonin'
FGod got you, the devil's watchin',
he just peekin' in
Am7I know I madе a promise that I'd
never let the reaper in (Jesus)
GBut lately, I've been losin' all my
deepest friends (Lord)
And lately, I've been swimmin' on
Emthe deepest end
F It's just drugs, it ain't no hugs,
it ain't no love there
Am7 You been down so much you don't
even know what's upstairs (Jesus)
G Suicidal thoughts got you
wonderin' what's up there (Lord)
And while I introduce the party, you
Em say it's up there
FToo many pills, so much potions, so
much pain, too many emotions
Am7 And everything that you do good,
it just go unnoticed (Jesus)
G Did He tell you that you good
and just stay focused? (Lord)
EmMama, you was the life of the party
F I swear you brought life to the
party
Am7 When you lost your life, it took
the life out the party (Jesus)
G That woman rode with me like a
Harley (Lord)
Visions of my cousins in a cell
Emreally scarred me
F Movin' to the hood was like
signin' up for the army
Am7'Cause they been killin' **** since
**** was watchin' Barney (Jesus)
GYou want dreams to come true? But I
have nightmares (Lord)
'Cause if that come to life, then I
Emmight not be right here
FBeen in the dark so long, don't know
if the light here
Am7But I'm just reaching for the stars
like Buzz Lightyear (Jesus)
GAnd now I'm lightyears ahead of
those nightmares (Lord)
I deaded those night terrors when
Emthe night clears
FAnd if I talk to Christ, can I bring
my mother back to life?
Am7And if I die tonight, will I see her
in the afterlife? (Jesus)
GBut back to reality, where
everything's a tragedy (Lord)
You better have a strategy or you
Emcould be a statistic
FLittle boy dies, he's just one of
the mystic
Am7And mama steady crying 'cause she
really the victim (Jesus)
GAnd she's getting high and she's
getting addicted (Lord)
And her older boy just stuck with
Emthe picture, painted vivid
FThat's a family portrait, and her
daughter just absorbed it
Am7Sixteen, pregnant, baby daddy say
she should abort it (Jesus)
GBut we can't afford it, so she
decides to move forward (Lord)
Em up
FNow she just feeling nauseous like
she finna throw up
Am7The water flows down her legs, yeah,
it's finna go up (Jesus)
GA year done went by, her daughter
just turned one (Lord)
And she's still dependent on her mom
Em
FBig brother in the streets, he went
and bought him a gun
Am7He want revenge 'cause the pain,
feelin' numb (Jesus)
GAnd her mom still doing drugs 'cause
that's the only time she feel loved
(Lord)
Is it real love? Do the scars really
Em heal up?
F From all the pain that done
Am7built up, but they don't feel us
(Jesus)
GA week done flew by, big bro ridin'
then he see the guys (Lord)
Left his little brother on the side,
Em bleeding from the side
F He seein' red, it's like he's
bleeding through his eyes
Am7To see him dead, the only thing
that'll help the grieving up inside
G(Jesus) Even let him get they last
meal
He done with the streets after this,
Em this his last kill (Lord)
F He gotta show him that it's that
real
Am7He ran up on him with the pipe like,
"****, stand still" (Jesus)
G "You took my brother life, you
made my mother cry" (Lord)
Em"Tell me one reason I shouldn't send
you up to Christ"
FHe said, "Go 'head, take my life,
I've seen everything but Christ"
Am7Then big bro just blacked out and
Gall you seen was the light (Jesus,
EmLord)
[Chorus: Kanye West]
F Am7 Tell me if you know someone
G Emthat needs (Jesus, Lord)
[Verse 2: Jay Electronica]
FUh-huh, in the name of the true and
living God, the beneficent, the
merciful (Hallelujah)
Am7Thank you for bringing me up the
rough side of the mountain like
Ertuğrul (Jesus)
GEvery knee bowed and every tongue
confessed and paid homage (Lord)
To the monk who visited Rothschilds
Emlike Thelonious did Pannonica (Shoo)
FIt's Jay Elec-entendre-nica comin'
through your monitor
Am7Back from the great beyond like the
Son of Man or the Son of Donda?
(Jesus)
GI never rolled the GSXR or the R6 or
the Honda (Lord)
But I flew my Ducati through North
EmAmerica like Wakanda
FEarthquakes will strike this nation
for what Bush did to Rwanda (Facts)
Am7What the Clintons did to Haiti and
Downing Street did to Ghana (Jesus)
GIn Tenochtitlan, they call me
Terremoto, El Negro Loco (Lord)
I shake the tectonic plates of the
Emgame if I lay one vocal
FThe God is interstellar while you
fellas remain local
Am7My bars is like the pyramid temples
of Pacal Votan (Jesus)
GAs sure as the C J confirmed
Ezekiel's Wheel (Lord)
I could change the world like Yacub
Emwith two pieces of steel
FMy sword and my microphone, I swore
to the Christ's throne
Am7But when you great, they wanna say
you took a L, José Castille (Jesus)
GI'm in the fight here, fight here
for what seemed like lightyears
(Lord)
My rugged cross and thorny crowns
Emsqueeze out Christ tears
FThirty pieces of silver clout, my
Pierre price tier
Am7It's a war outside, it's a war
outside (Jesus)
GIt's like the last days of Sodom
Emand Gomorrah outside (Lord)
[Chorus: Kanye West]
F Am7 Tell me if you know someone that
G needs (Jesus, Lord)
Em FNow we've been through a lot of
things
Am7Tell me if you know someone that
Gneeds (Jesus, Lord)
Em FHe lives in a lot of things
Am7Tell me if you know someone that
Gneeds (Jesus, Lord)
Em FBeen through a lot of things
Am7Tell me if you know someone that
Gneeds (Jesus, Lord)
[Outro: Larry Hoover Jr. & Kanye
West]
Em FWhat up, Ye? This Larry Hoover Jr
First and foremost, I wanna thank
Am7you for taking the fight for my
father to the Oval Office
G You might not have been the only
one that could've did that
EmBut you were the one that did do
that
F And with your assistance, we can
Am7 continue to let the world take part
in this fight
GYou know, to me, it kinda feels like
Me, my mother, my brothers, and my
Emkids
FHave all been incarcerated through
this journey
Am7And we haven't even been to jail
GWe have been looked at and treated
as criminals
For being a part of this family
Em FMy father's truth and the reality
that he raised me in
Am7Is that he wanted to make a change
in this community (Tell me if you
know someone that needs)
'Cause the conditions in this
Gcapitalist society is what made him
And it is what made the children of
today
Em FAfter twenty-five years of bein'
locked down, twenty-three and one
Am7My father has not called any shots
Gfrom one of the most secure and
segregated prisons in the world
EmAnd will not, once released, call
Fany shots for the Gangster Disciples
Am7If my father's intentions were to
Glead us to death, destruction
Into the Hell that he has had to
live in for the past twenty-six
years
Em F Man, he would be dead to me
Am7 I didn't sign up for that
GI didn't stay on this journey this
long for that
All my life, man
Em FI've been waitin' for my father to
come home
Am7They told me when I graduate eighth
G grade, he would be home
EmThen they told me when I
Fgraduate from high school, he would
be home
Am7 I went away to Morris Brown, I
G graduated and he still ain't home
Now I'm a adult, and my daughter
Em Fwent away to college and graduated
Am7He still not home
GNow even more than that, my son, he
graduated eighth grade and we still
waitin'
Em FMatter of fact, he hasn't hugged,
kissed, or touched any of his
grandchildren
Am7 And they haven't been able to
touch they grandfather
GEven though it is not seen that way
for some of us
Em FBut for many of us, Larry Hoover is
a beacon of hope for his community
Am7Who deserves to breathe free air
G N.C.
Free my father (Jesus), Mr. Larry
Hoover Sr. (Lord)