G Bm7 Tell me if you know someone that
A needs (Jesus, Lord)
F#m GNow we've been through a lot of
things
Bm7Tell me if you know someone that
Aneeds (Jesus, Lord)
F#m GHe lives in a lot of things
Bm7Tell me if you know someone that
Aneeds (Jesus, Lord)
F#m GBeen through a lot of things
Bm7Tell me if you know someone that
A F#mneeds (Jesus, Lord)
[Verse 1: Kanye West]
GSittin' by myself, I'm just thinkin'
Bm7About all I've been through, I wish
I was dreamin'
AMan, it's hard to be an angel when
you surrounded by demons (Jesus)
F#mI watched so many people leave
(Lord)
I see 'em change by the season,
F#mthat's mama's sеasonin'
GGod got you, the devil's watchin',
he just peekin' in
Bm7I know I madе a promise that I'd
never let the reaper in (Jesus)
ABut lately, I've been losin' all my
deepest friends (Lord)
And lately, I've been swimmin' on
F#mthe deepest end
G It's just drugs, it ain't no hugs,
it ain't no love there
Bm7 You been down so much you don't
even know what's upstairs (Jesus)
A Suicidal thoughts got you
wonderin' what's up there (Lord)
And while I introduce the party, you
F#m say it's up there
GToo many pills, so much potions, so
much pain, too many emotions
Bm7 And everything that you do good,
it just go unnoticed (Jesus)
A Did He tell you that you good
and just stay focused? (Lord)
F#mMama, you was the life of the party
G I swear you brought life to the
party
Bm7 When you lost your life, it took
the life out the party (Jesus)
A That woman rode with me like a
Harley (Lord)
Visions of my cousins in a cell
F#mreally scarred me
G Movin' to the hood was like
signin' up for the army
Bm7'Cause they been killin' **** since
**** was watchin' Barney (Jesus)
AYou want dreams to come true? But I
have nightmares (Lord)
'Cause if that come to life, then I
F#mmight not be right here
GBeen in the dark so long, don't know
if the light here
Bm7But I'm just reaching for the stars
like Buzz Lightyear (Jesus)
AAnd now I'm lightyears ahead of
those nightmares (Lord)
I deaded those night terrors when
F#mthe night clears
GAnd if I talk to Christ, can I bring
my mother back to life?
Bm7And if I die tonight, will I see her
in the afterlife? (Jesus)
ABut back to reality, where
everything's a tragedy (Lord)
You better have a strategy or you
F#mcould be a statistic
GLittle boy dies, he's just one of
the mystic
Bm7And mama steady crying 'cause she
really the victim (Jesus)
AAnd she's getting high and she's
getting addicted (Lord)
And her older boy just stuck with
F#mthe picture, painted vivid
GThat's a family portrait, and her
daughter just absorbed it
Bm7Sixteen, pregnant, baby daddy say
she should abort it (Jesus)
ABut we can't afford it, so she
decides to move forward (Lord)
F#m up
GNow she just feeling nauseous like
she finna throw up
Bm7The water flows down her legs, yeah,
it's finna go up (Jesus)
AA year done went by, her daughter
just turned one (Lord)
And she's still dependent on her mom
F#m
GBig brother in the streets, he went
and bought him a gun
Bm7He want revenge 'cause the pain,
feelin' numb (Jesus)
AAnd her mom still doing drugs 'cause
that's the only time she feel loved
(Lord)
Is it real love? Do the scars really
F#m heal up?
G From all the pain that done
Bm7built up, but they don't feel us
(Jesus)
AA week done flew by, big bro ridin'
then he see the guys (Lord)
Left his little brother on the side,
F#m bleeding from the side
G He seein' red, it's like he's
bleeding through his eyes
Bm7To see him dead, the only thing
that'll help the grieving up inside
A(Jesus) Even let him get they last
meal
He done with the streets after this,
F#m this his last kill (Lord)
G He gotta show him that it's that
real
Bm7He ran up on him with the pipe like,
"****, stand still" (Jesus)
A "You took my brother life, you
made my mother cry" (Lord)
F#m"Tell me one reason I shouldn't send
you up to Christ"
GHe said, "Go 'head, take my life,
I've seen everything but Christ"
Bm7Then big bro just blacked out and
Aall you seen was the light (Jesus,
F#mLord)
[Chorus: Kanye West]
G Bm7 Tell me if you know someone
A F#mthat needs (Jesus, Lord)
[Verse 2: Jay Electronica]
GUh-huh, in the name of the true and
living God, the beneficent, the
merciful (Hallelujah)
Bm7Thank you for bringing me up the
rough side of the mountain like
Ertuğrul (Jesus)
AEvery knee bowed and every tongue
confessed and paid homage (Lord)
To the monk who visited Rothschilds
F#mlike Thelonious did Pannonica (Shoo)
GIt's Jay Elec-entendre-nica comin'
through your monitor
Bm7Back from the great beyond like the
Son of Man or the Son of Donda?
(Jesus)
AI never rolled the GSXR or the R6 or
the Honda (Lord)
But I flew my Ducati through North
F#mAmerica like Wakanda
GEarthquakes will strike this nation
for what Bush did to Rwanda (Facts)
Bm7What the Clintons did to Haiti and
Downing Street did to Ghana (Jesus)
AIn Tenochtitlan, they call me
Terremoto, El Negro Loco (Lord)
I shake the tectonic plates of the
F#mgame if I lay one vocal
GThe God is interstellar while you
fellas remain local
Bm7My bars is like the pyramid temples
of Pacal Votan (Jesus)
AAs sure as the C J confirmed
Ezekiel's Wheel (Lord)
I could change the world like Yacub
F#mwith two pieces of steel
GMy sword and my microphone, I swore
to the Christ's throne
Bm7But when you great, they wanna say
you took a L, José Castille (Jesus)
AI'm in the fight here, fight here
for what seemed like lightyears
(Lord)
My rugged cross and thorny crowns
F#msqueeze out Christ tears
GThirty pieces of silver clout, my
Pierre price tier
Bm7It's a war outside, it's a war
outside (Jesus)
AIt's like the last days of Sodom
F#mand Gomorrah outside (Lord)
[Chorus: Kanye West]
G Bm7 Tell me if you know someone that
A needs (Jesus, Lord)
F#m GNow we've been through a lot of
things
Bm7Tell me if you know someone that
Aneeds (Jesus, Lord)
F#m GHe lives in a lot of things
Bm7Tell me if you know someone that
Aneeds (Jesus, Lord)
F#m GBeen through a lot of things
Bm7Tell me if you know someone that
Aneeds (Jesus, Lord)
[Outro: Larry Hoover Jr. & Kanye
West]
F#m GWhat up, Ye? This Larry Hoover Jr
First and foremost, I wanna thank
Bm7you for taking the fight for my
father to the Oval Office
A You might not have been the only
one that could've did that
F#mBut you were the one that did do
that
G And with your assistance, we can
Bm7 continue to let the world take part
in this fight
AYou know, to me, it kinda feels like
Me, my mother, my brothers, and my
F#mkids
GHave all been incarcerated through
this journey
Bm7And we haven't even been to jail
AWe have been looked at and treated
as criminals
For being a part of this family
F#m GMy father's truth and the reality
that he raised me in
Bm7Is that he wanted to make a change
in this community (Tell me if you
know someone that needs)
'Cause the conditions in this
Acapitalist society is what made him
And it is what made the children of
today
F#m GAfter twenty-five years of bein'
locked down, twenty-three and one
Bm7My father has not called any shots
Afrom one of the most secure and
segregated prisons in the world
F#mAnd will not, once released, call
Gany shots for the Gangster Disciples
Bm7If my father's intentions were to
Alead us to death, destruction
Into the Hell that he has had to
live in for the past twenty-six
years
F#m G Man, he would be dead to me
Bm7 I didn't sign up for that
AI didn't stay on this journey this
long for that
All my life, man
F#m GI've been waitin' for my father to
come home
Bm7They told me when I graduate eighth
A grade, he would be home
F#mThen they told me when I
Ggraduate from high school, he would
be home
Bm7 I went away to Morris Brown, I
A graduated and he still ain't home
Now I'm a adult, and my daughter
F#m Gwent away to college and graduated
Bm7He still not home
ANow even more than that, my son, he
graduated eighth grade and we still
waitin'
F#m GMatter of fact, he hasn't hugged,
kissed, or touched any of his
grandchildren
Bm7 And they haven't been able to
touch they grandfather
AEven though it is not seen that way
for some of us
F#m GBut for many of us, Larry Hoover is
a beacon of hope for his community
Bm7Who deserves to breathe free air
A N.C.
Free my father (Jesus), Mr. Larry
Hoover Sr. (Lord)