F# A#m7 Tell me if you know someone that
G# needs (Jesus, Lord)
Fm F#Now we've been through a lot of
things
A#m7Tell me if you know someone that
G#needs (Jesus, Lord)
Fm F#He lives in a lot of things
A#m7Tell me if you know someone that
G#needs (Jesus, Lord)
Fm F#Been through a lot of things
A#m7Tell me if you know someone that
G# Fmneeds (Jesus, Lord)
[Verse 1: Kanye West]
F#Sittin' by myself, I'm just thinkin'
A#m7About all I've been through, I wish
I was dreamin'
G#Man, it's hard to be an angel when
you surrounded by demons (Jesus)
FmI watched so many people leave
(Lord)
I see 'em change by the season,
Fmthat's mama's sеasonin'
F#God got you, the devil's watchin',
he just peekin' in
A#m7I know I madе a promise that I'd
never let the reaper in (Jesus)
G#But lately, I've been losin' all my
deepest friends (Lord)
And lately, I've been swimmin' on
Fmthe deepest end
F# It's just drugs, it ain't no hugs,
it ain't no love there
A#m7 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
Fm say it's up there
F#Too many pills, so much potions, so
much pain, too many emotions
A#m7 And everything that you do good,
it just go unnoticed (Jesus)
G# Did He tell you that you good
and just stay focused? (Lord)
FmMama, you was the life of the party
F# I swear you brought life to the
party
A#m7 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
Fmreally scarred me
F# Movin' to the hood was like
signin' up for the army
A#m7'Cause they been killin' **** since
**** was watchin' Barney (Jesus)
G#You want dreams to come true? But I
have nightmares (Lord)
'Cause if that come to life, then I
Fmmight not be right here
F#Been in the dark so long, don't know
if the light here
A#m7But I'm just reaching for the stars
like Buzz Lightyear (Jesus)
G#And now I'm lightyears ahead of
those nightmares (Lord)
I deaded those night terrors when
Fmthe night clears
F#And if I talk to Christ, can I bring
my mother back to life?
A#m7And if I die tonight, will I see her
in the afterlife? (Jesus)
G#But back to reality, where
everything's a tragedy (Lord)
You better have a strategy or you
Fmcould be a statistic
F#Little boy dies, he's just one of
the mystic
A#m7And mama steady crying 'cause she
really the victim (Jesus)
G#And she's getting high and she's
getting addicted (Lord)
And her older boy just stuck with
Fmthe picture, painted vivid
F#That's a family portrait, and her
daughter just absorbed it
A#m7Sixteen, pregnant, baby daddy say
she should abort it (Jesus)
G#But we can't afford it, so she
decides to move forward (Lord)
Fm up
F#Now she just feeling nauseous like
she finna throw up
A#m7The water flows down her legs, yeah,
it's finna go up (Jesus)
G#A year done went by, her daughter
just turned one (Lord)
And she's still dependent on her mom
Fm
F#Big brother in the streets, he went
and bought him a gun
A#m7He want revenge 'cause the pain,
feelin' numb (Jesus)
G#And her mom still doing drugs 'cause
that's the only time she feel loved
(Lord)
Is it real love? Do the scars really
Fm heal up?
F# From all the pain that done
A#m7built up, but they don't feel us
(Jesus)
G#A week done flew by, big bro ridin'
then he see the guys (Lord)
Left his little brother on the side,
Fm bleeding from the side
F# He seein' red, it's like he's
bleeding through his eyes
A#m7To 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,
Fm this his last kill (Lord)
F# He gotta show him that it's that
real
A#m7He ran up on him with the pipe like,
"****, stand still" (Jesus)
G# "You took my brother life, you
made my mother cry" (Lord)
Fm"Tell me one reason I shouldn't send
you up to Christ"
F#He said, "Go 'head, take my life,
I've seen everything but Christ"
A#m7Then big bro just blacked out and
G#all you seen was the light (Jesus,
FmLord)
[Chorus: Kanye West]
F# A#m7 Tell me if you know someone
G# Fmthat needs (Jesus, Lord)
[Verse 2: Jay Electronica]
F#Uh-huh, in the name of the true and
living God, the beneficent, the
merciful (Hallelujah)
A#m7Thank you for bringing me up the
rough side of the mountain like
Ertuğrul (Jesus)
G#Every knee bowed and every tongue
confessed and paid homage (Lord)
To the monk who visited Rothschilds
Fmlike Thelonious did Pannonica (Shoo)
F#It's Jay Elec-entendre-nica comin'
through your monitor
A#m7Back from the great beyond like the
Son of Man or the Son of Donda?
(Jesus)
G#I never rolled the GSXR or the R6 or
the Honda (Lord)
But I flew my Ducati through North
FmAmerica like Wakanda
F#Earthquakes will strike this nation
for what Bush did to Rwanda (Facts)
A#m7What the Clintons did to Haiti and
Downing Street did to Ghana (Jesus)
G#In Tenochtitlan, they call me
Terremoto, El Negro Loco (Lord)
I shake the tectonic plates of the
Fmgame if I lay one vocal
F#The God is interstellar while you
fellas remain local
A#m7My bars is like the pyramid temples
of Pacal Votan (Jesus)
G#As sure as the C J confirmed
Ezekiel's Wheel (Lord)
I could change the world like Yacub
Fmwith two pieces of steel
F#My sword and my microphone, I swore
to the Christ's throne
A#m7But when you great, they wanna say
you took a L, José Castille (Jesus)
G#I'm in the fight here, fight here
for what seemed like lightyears
(Lord)
My rugged cross and thorny crowns
Fmsqueeze out Christ tears
F#Thirty pieces of silver clout, my
Pierre price tier
A#m7It's a war outside, it's a war
outside (Jesus)
G#It's like the last days of Sodom
Fmand Gomorrah outside (Lord)
[Chorus: Kanye West]
F# A#m7 Tell me if you know someone that
G# needs (Jesus, Lord)
Fm F#Now we've been through a lot of
things
A#m7Tell me if you know someone that
G#needs (Jesus, Lord)
Fm F#He lives in a lot of things
A#m7Tell me if you know someone that
G#needs (Jesus, Lord)
Fm F#Been through a lot of things
A#m7Tell me if you know someone that
G#needs (Jesus, Lord)
[Outro: Larry Hoover Jr. & Kanye
West]
Fm F#What up, Ye? This Larry Hoover Jr
First and foremost, I wanna thank
A#m7you 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
FmBut you were the one that did do
that
F# And with your assistance, we can
A#m7 continue to let the world take part
in this fight
G#You know, to me, it kinda feels like
Me, my mother, my brothers, and my
Fmkids
F#Have all been incarcerated through
this journey
A#m7And we haven't even been to jail
G#We have been looked at and treated
as criminals
For being a part of this family
Fm F#My father's truth and the reality
that he raised me in
A#m7Is that he wanted to make a change
in this community (Tell me if you
know someone that needs)
'Cause the conditions in this
G#capitalist society is what made him
And it is what made the children of
today
Fm F#After twenty-five years of bein'
locked down, twenty-three and one
A#m7My father has not called any shots
G#from one of the most secure and
segregated prisons in the world
FmAnd will not, once released, call
F#any shots for the Gangster Disciples
A#m7If my father's intentions were to
G#lead us to death, destruction
Into the Hell that he has had to
live in for the past twenty-six
years
Fm F# Man, he would be dead to me
A#m7 I didn't sign up for that
G#I didn't stay on this journey this
long for that
All my life, man
Fm F#I've been waitin' for my father to
come home
A#m7They told me when I graduate eighth
G# grade, he would be home
FmThen they told me when I
F#graduate from high school, he would
be home
A#m7 I went away to Morris Brown, I
G# graduated and he still ain't home
Now I'm a adult, and my daughter
Fm F#went away to college and graduated
A#m7He still not home
G#Now even more than that, my son, he
graduated eighth grade and we still
waitin'
Fm F#Matter of fact, he hasn't hugged,
kissed, or touched any of his
grandchildren
A#m7 And they haven't been able to
touch they grandfather
G#Even though it is not seen that way
for some of us
Fm F#But for many of us, Larry Hoover is
a beacon of hope for his community
A#m7Who deserves to breathe free air
G# N.C.
Free my father (Jesus), Mr. Larry
Hoover Sr. (Lord)