C Em7 Tell me if you know someone that
D needs (Jesus, Lord)
Bm CNow we've been through a lot of
things
Em7Tell me if you know someone that
Dneeds (Jesus, Lord)
Bm CHe lives in a lot of things
Em7Tell me if you know someone that
Dneeds (Jesus, Lord)
Bm CBeen through a lot of things
Em7Tell me if you know someone that
D Bmneeds (Jesus, Lord)
[Verse 1: Kanye West]
CSittin' by myself, I'm just thinkin'
Em7About all I've been through, I wish
I was dreamin'
DMan, it's hard to be an angel when
you surrounded by demons (Jesus)
BmI watched so many people leave
(Lord)
I see 'em change by the season,
Bmthat's mama's sеasonin'
CGod got you, the devil's watchin',
he just peekin' in
Em7I know I madе a promise that I'd
never let the reaper in (Jesus)
DBut lately, I've been losin' all my
deepest friends (Lord)
And lately, I've been swimmin' on
Bmthe deepest end
C It's just drugs, it ain't no hugs,
it ain't no love there
Em7 You been down so much you don't
even know what's upstairs (Jesus)
D Suicidal thoughts got you
wonderin' what's up there (Lord)
And while I introduce the party, you
Bm say it's up there
CToo many pills, so much potions, so
much pain, too many emotions
Em7 And everything that you do good,
it just go unnoticed (Jesus)
D Did He tell you that you good
and just stay focused? (Lord)
BmMama, you was the life of the party
C I swear you brought life to the
party
Em7 When you lost your life, it took
the life out the party (Jesus)
D That woman rode with me like a
Harley (Lord)
Visions of my cousins in a cell
Bmreally scarred me
C Movin' to the hood was like
signin' up for the army
Em7'Cause they been killin' **** since
**** was watchin' Barney (Jesus)
DYou want dreams to come true? But I
have nightmares (Lord)
'Cause if that come to life, then I
Bmmight not be right here
CBeen in the dark so long, don't know
if the light here
Em7But I'm just reaching for the stars
like Buzz Lightyear (Jesus)
DAnd now I'm lightyears ahead of
those nightmares (Lord)
I deaded those night terrors when
Bmthe night clears
CAnd if I talk to Christ, can I bring
my mother back to life?
Em7And if I die tonight, will I see her
in the afterlife? (Jesus)
DBut back to reality, where
everything's a tragedy (Lord)
You better have a strategy or you
Bmcould be a statistic
CLittle boy dies, he's just one of
the mystic
Em7And mama steady crying 'cause she
really the victim (Jesus)
DAnd she's getting high and she's
getting addicted (Lord)
And her older boy just stuck with
Bmthe picture, painted vivid
CThat's a family portrait, and her
daughter just absorbed it
Em7Sixteen, pregnant, baby daddy say
she should abort it (Jesus)
DBut we can't afford it, so she
decides to move forward (Lord)
Bm up
CNow she just feeling nauseous like
she finna throw up
Em7The water flows down her legs, yeah,
it's finna go up (Jesus)
DA year done went by, her daughter
just turned one (Lord)
And she's still dependent on her mom
Bm
CBig brother in the streets, he went
and bought him a gun
Em7He want revenge 'cause the pain,
feelin' numb (Jesus)
DAnd her mom still doing drugs 'cause
that's the only time she feel loved
(Lord)
Is it real love? Do the scars really
Bm heal up?
C From all the pain that done
Em7built up, but they don't feel us
(Jesus)
DA week done flew by, big bro ridin'
then he see the guys (Lord)
Left his little brother on the side,
Bm bleeding from the side
C He seein' red, it's like he's
bleeding through his eyes
Em7To see him dead, the only thing
that'll help the grieving up inside
D(Jesus) Even let him get they last
meal
He done with the streets after this,
Bm this his last kill (Lord)
C He gotta show him that it's that
real
Em7He ran up on him with the pipe like,
"****, stand still" (Jesus)
D "You took my brother life, you
made my mother cry" (Lord)
Bm"Tell me one reason I shouldn't send
you up to Christ"
CHe said, "Go 'head, take my life,
I've seen everything but Christ"
Em7Then big bro just blacked out and
Dall you seen was the light (Jesus,
BmLord)
[Chorus: Kanye West]
C Em7 Tell me if you know someone
D Bmthat needs (Jesus, Lord)
[Verse 2: Jay Electronica]
CUh-huh, in the name of the true and
living God, the beneficent, the
merciful (Hallelujah)
Em7Thank you for bringing me up the
rough side of the mountain like
Ertuğrul (Jesus)
DEvery knee bowed and every tongue
confessed and paid homage (Lord)
To the monk who visited Rothschilds
Bmlike Thelonious did Pannonica (Shoo)
CIt's Jay Elec-entendre-nica comin'
through your monitor
Em7Back from the great beyond like the
Son of Man or the Son of Donda?
(Jesus)
DI never rolled the GSXR or the R6 or
the Honda (Lord)
But I flew my Ducati through North
BmAmerica like Wakanda
CEarthquakes will strike this nation
for what Bush did to Rwanda (Facts)
Em7What the Clintons did to Haiti and
Downing Street did to Ghana (Jesus)
DIn Tenochtitlan, they call me
Terremoto, El Negro Loco (Lord)
I shake the tectonic plates of the
Bmgame if I lay one vocal
CThe God is interstellar while you
fellas remain local
Em7My bars is like the pyramid temples
of Pacal Votan (Jesus)
DAs sure as the C J confirmed
Ezekiel's Wheel (Lord)
I could change the world like Yacub
Bmwith two pieces of steel
CMy sword and my microphone, I swore
to the Christ's throne
Em7But when you great, they wanna say
you took a L, José Castille (Jesus)
DI'm in the fight here, fight here
for what seemed like lightyears
(Lord)
My rugged cross and thorny crowns
Bmsqueeze out Christ tears
CThirty pieces of silver clout, my
Pierre price tier
Em7It's a war outside, it's a war
outside (Jesus)
DIt's like the last days of Sodom
Bmand Gomorrah outside (Lord)
[Chorus: Kanye West]
C Em7 Tell me if you know someone that
D needs (Jesus, Lord)
Bm CNow we've been through a lot of
things
Em7Tell me if you know someone that
Dneeds (Jesus, Lord)
Bm CHe lives in a lot of things
Em7Tell me if you know someone that
Dneeds (Jesus, Lord)
Bm CBeen through a lot of things
Em7Tell me if you know someone that
Dneeds (Jesus, Lord)
[Outro: Larry Hoover Jr. & Kanye
West]
Bm CWhat up, Ye? This Larry Hoover Jr
First and foremost, I wanna thank
Em7you for taking the fight for my
father to the Oval Office
D You might not have been the only
one that could've did that
BmBut you were the one that did do
that
C And with your assistance, we can
Em7 continue to let the world take part
in this fight
DYou know, to me, it kinda feels like
Me, my mother, my brothers, and my
Bmkids
CHave all been incarcerated through
this journey
Em7And we haven't even been to jail
DWe have been looked at and treated
as criminals
For being a part of this family
Bm CMy father's truth and the reality
that he raised me in
Em7Is that he wanted to make a change
in this community (Tell me if you
know someone that needs)
'Cause the conditions in this
Dcapitalist society is what made him
And it is what made the children of
today
Bm CAfter twenty-five years of bein'
locked down, twenty-three and one
Em7My father has not called any shots
Dfrom one of the most secure and
segregated prisons in the world
BmAnd will not, once released, call
Cany shots for the Gangster Disciples
Em7If my father's intentions were to
Dlead us to death, destruction
Into the Hell that he has had to
live in for the past twenty-six
years
Bm C Man, he would be dead to me
Em7 I didn't sign up for that
DI didn't stay on this journey this
long for that
All my life, man
Bm CI've been waitin' for my father to
come home
Em7They told me when I graduate eighth
D grade, he would be home
BmThen they told me when I
Cgraduate from high school, he would
be home
Em7 I went away to Morris Brown, I
D graduated and he still ain't home
Now I'm a adult, and my daughter
Bm Cwent away to college and graduated
Em7He still not home
DNow even more than that, my son, he
graduated eighth grade and we still
waitin'
Bm CMatter of fact, he hasn't hugged,
kissed, or touched any of his
grandchildren
Em7 And they haven't been able to
touch they grandfather
DEven though it is not seen that way
for some of us
Bm CBut for many of us, Larry Hoover is
a beacon of hope for his community
Em7Who deserves to breathe free air
D N.C.
Free my father (Jesus), Mr. Larry
Hoover Sr. (Lord)