D# Gm7 Tell me if you know someone that
F needs (Jesus, Lord)
Dm D#Now we've been through a lot of
things
Gm7Tell me if you know someone that
Fneeds (Jesus, Lord)
Dm D#He lives in a lot of things
Gm7Tell me if you know someone that
Fneeds (Jesus, Lord)
Dm D#Been through a lot of things
Gm7Tell me if you know someone that
F Dmneeds (Jesus, Lord)
[Verse 1: Kanye West]
D#Sittin' by myself, I'm just thinkin'
Gm7About all I've been through, I wish
I was dreamin'
FMan, it's hard to be an angel when
you surrounded by demons (Jesus)
DmI watched so many people leave
(Lord)
I see 'em change by the season,
Dmthat's mama's sеasonin'
D#God got you, the devil's watchin',
he just peekin' in
Gm7I know I madе a promise that I'd
never let the reaper in (Jesus)
FBut lately, I've been losin' all my
deepest friends (Lord)
And lately, I've been swimmin' on
Dmthe deepest end
D# It's just drugs, it ain't no hugs,
it ain't no love there
Gm7 You been down so much you don't
even know what's upstairs (Jesus)
F Suicidal thoughts got you
wonderin' what's up there (Lord)
And while I introduce the party, you
Dm say it's up there
D#Too many pills, so much potions, so
much pain, too many emotions
Gm7 And everything that you do good,
it just go unnoticed (Jesus)
F Did He tell you that you good
and just stay focused? (Lord)
DmMama, you was the life of the party
D# I swear you brought life to the
party
Gm7 When you lost your life, it took
the life out the party (Jesus)
F That woman rode with me like a
Harley (Lord)
Visions of my cousins in a cell
Dmreally scarred me
D# Movin' to the hood was like
signin' up for the army
Gm7'Cause they been killin' **** since
**** was watchin' Barney (Jesus)
FYou want dreams to come true? But I
have nightmares (Lord)
'Cause if that come to life, then I
Dmmight not be right here
D#Been in the dark so long, don't know
if the light here
Gm7But I'm just reaching for the stars
like Buzz Lightyear (Jesus)
FAnd now I'm lightyears ahead of
those nightmares (Lord)
I deaded those night terrors when
Dmthe night clears
D#And if I talk to Christ, can I bring
my mother back to life?
Gm7And if I die tonight, will I see her
in the afterlife? (Jesus)
FBut back to reality, where
everything's a tragedy (Lord)
You better have a strategy or you
Dmcould be a statistic
D#Little boy dies, he's just one of
the mystic
Gm7And mama steady crying 'cause she
really the victim (Jesus)
FAnd she's getting high and she's
getting addicted (Lord)
And her older boy just stuck with
Dmthe picture, painted vivid
D#That's a family portrait, and her
daughter just absorbed it
Gm7Sixteen, pregnant, baby daddy say
she should abort it (Jesus)
FBut we can't afford it, so she
decides to move forward (Lord)
Dm up
D#Now she just feeling nauseous like
she finna throw up
Gm7The water flows down her legs, yeah,
it's finna go up (Jesus)
FA year done went by, her daughter
just turned one (Lord)
And she's still dependent on her mom
Dm
D#Big brother in the streets, he went
and bought him a gun
Gm7He want revenge 'cause the pain,
feelin' numb (Jesus)
FAnd her mom still doing drugs 'cause
that's the only time she feel loved
(Lord)
Is it real love? Do the scars really
Dm heal up?
D# From all the pain that done
Gm7built up, but they don't feel us
(Jesus)
FA week done flew by, big bro ridin'
then he see the guys (Lord)
Left his little brother on the side,
Dm bleeding from the side
D# He seein' red, it's like he's
bleeding through his eyes
Gm7To see him dead, the only thing
that'll help the grieving up inside
F(Jesus) Even let him get they last
meal
He done with the streets after this,
Dm this his last kill (Lord)
D# He gotta show him that it's that
real
Gm7He ran up on him with the pipe like,
"****, stand still" (Jesus)
F "You took my brother life, you
made my mother cry" (Lord)
Dm"Tell me one reason I shouldn't send
you up to Christ"
D#He said, "Go 'head, take my life,
I've seen everything but Christ"
Gm7Then big bro just blacked out and
Fall you seen was the light (Jesus,
DmLord)
[Chorus: Kanye West]
D# Gm7 Tell me if you know someone
F Dmthat needs (Jesus, Lord)
[Verse 2: Jay Electronica]
D#Uh-huh, in the name of the true and
living God, the beneficent, the
merciful (Hallelujah)
Gm7Thank you for bringing me up the
rough side of the mountain like
Ertuğrul (Jesus)
FEvery knee bowed and every tongue
confessed and paid homage (Lord)
To the monk who visited Rothschilds
Dmlike Thelonious did Pannonica (Shoo)
D#It's Jay Elec-entendre-nica comin'
through your monitor
Gm7Back from the great beyond like the
Son of Man or the Son of Donda?
(Jesus)
FI never rolled the GSXR or the R6 or
the Honda (Lord)
But I flew my Ducati through North
DmAmerica like Wakanda
D#Earthquakes will strike this nation
for what Bush did to Rwanda (Facts)
Gm7What the Clintons did to Haiti and
Downing Street did to Ghana (Jesus)
FIn Tenochtitlan, they call me
Terremoto, El Negro Loco (Lord)
I shake the tectonic plates of the
Dmgame if I lay one vocal
D#The God is interstellar while you
fellas remain local
Gm7My bars is like the pyramid temples
of Pacal Votan (Jesus)
FAs sure as the C J confirmed
Ezekiel's Wheel (Lord)
I could change the world like Yacub
Dmwith two pieces of steel
D#My sword and my microphone, I swore
to the Christ's throne
Gm7But when you great, they wanna say
you took a L, José Castille (Jesus)
FI'm in the fight here, fight here
for what seemed like lightyears
(Lord)
My rugged cross and thorny crowns
Dmsqueeze out Christ tears
D#Thirty pieces of silver clout, my
Pierre price tier
Gm7It's a war outside, it's a war
outside (Jesus)
FIt's like the last days of Sodom
Dmand Gomorrah outside (Lord)
[Chorus: Kanye West]
D# Gm7 Tell me if you know someone that
F needs (Jesus, Lord)
Dm D#Now we've been through a lot of
things
Gm7Tell me if you know someone that
Fneeds (Jesus, Lord)
Dm D#He lives in a lot of things
Gm7Tell me if you know someone that
Fneeds (Jesus, Lord)
Dm D#Been through a lot of things
Gm7Tell me if you know someone that
Fneeds (Jesus, Lord)
[Outro: Larry Hoover Jr. & Kanye
West]
Dm D#What up, Ye? This Larry Hoover Jr
First and foremost, I wanna thank
Gm7you for taking the fight for my
father to the Oval Office
F You might not have been the only
one that could've did that
DmBut you were the one that did do
that
D# And with your assistance, we can
Gm7 continue to let the world take part
in this fight
FYou know, to me, it kinda feels like
Me, my mother, my brothers, and my
Dmkids
D#Have all been incarcerated through
this journey
Gm7And we haven't even been to jail
FWe have been looked at and treated
as criminals
For being a part of this family
Dm D#My father's truth and the reality
that he raised me in
Gm7Is that he wanted to make a change
in this community (Tell me if you
know someone that needs)
'Cause the conditions in this
Fcapitalist society is what made him
And it is what made the children of
today
Dm D#After twenty-five years of bein'
locked down, twenty-three and one
Gm7My father has not called any shots
Ffrom one of the most secure and
segregated prisons in the world
DmAnd will not, once released, call
D#any shots for the Gangster Disciples
Gm7If my father's intentions were to
Flead us to death, destruction
Into the Hell that he has had to
live in for the past twenty-six
years
Dm D# Man, he would be dead to me
Gm7 I didn't sign up for that
FI didn't stay on this journey this
long for that
All my life, man
Dm D#I've been waitin' for my father to
come home
Gm7They told me when I graduate eighth
F grade, he would be home
DmThen they told me when I
D#graduate from high school, he would
be home
Gm7 I went away to Morris Brown, I
F graduated and he still ain't home
Now I'm a adult, and my daughter
Dm D#went away to college and graduated
Gm7He still not home
FNow even more than that, my son, he
graduated eighth grade and we still
waitin'
Dm D#Matter of fact, he hasn't hugged,
kissed, or touched any of his
grandchildren
Gm7 And they haven't been able to
touch they grandfather
FEven though it is not seen that way
for some of us
Dm D#But for many of us, Larry Hoover is
a beacon of hope for his community
Gm7Who deserves to breathe free air
F N.C.
Free my father (Jesus), Mr. Larry
Hoover Sr. (Lord)