G# Cm7 Tell me if you know someone that
A# needs (Jesus, Lord)
Gm G#Now we've been through a lot of
things
Cm7Tell me if you know someone that
A#needs (Jesus, Lord)
Gm G#He lives in a lot of things
Cm7Tell me if you know someone that
A#needs (Jesus, Lord)
Gm G#Been through a lot of things
Cm7Tell me if you know someone that
A# Gmneeds (Jesus, Lord)
[Verse 1: Kanye West]
G#Sittin' by myself, I'm just thinkin'
Cm7About all I've been through, I wish
I was dreamin'
A#Man, it's hard to be an angel when
you surrounded by demons (Jesus)
GmI watched so many people leave
(Lord)
I see 'em change by the season,
Gmthat's mama's sеasonin'
G#God got you, the devil's watchin',
he just peekin' in
Cm7I know I madе a promise that I'd
never let the reaper in (Jesus)
A#But lately, I've been losin' all my
deepest friends (Lord)
And lately, I've been swimmin' on
Gmthe deepest end
G# It's just drugs, it ain't no hugs,
it ain't no love there
Cm7 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
Gm say it's up there
G#Too many pills, so much potions, so
much pain, too many emotions
Cm7 And everything that you do good,
it just go unnoticed (Jesus)
A# Did He tell you that you good
and just stay focused? (Lord)
GmMama, you was the life of the party
G# I swear you brought life to the
party
Cm7 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
Gmreally scarred me
G# Movin' to the hood was like
signin' up for the army
Cm7'Cause they been killin' **** since
**** was watchin' Barney (Jesus)
A#You want dreams to come true? But I
have nightmares (Lord)
'Cause if that come to life, then I
Gmmight not be right here
G#Been in the dark so long, don't know
if the light here
Cm7But I'm just reaching for the stars
like Buzz Lightyear (Jesus)
A#And now I'm lightyears ahead of
those nightmares (Lord)
I deaded those night terrors when
Gmthe night clears
G#And if I talk to Christ, can I bring
my mother back to life?
Cm7And if I die tonight, will I see her
in the afterlife? (Jesus)
A#But back to reality, where
everything's a tragedy (Lord)
You better have a strategy or you
Gmcould be a statistic
G#Little boy dies, he's just one of
the mystic
Cm7And mama steady crying 'cause she
really the victim (Jesus)
A#And she's getting high and she's
getting addicted (Lord)
And her older boy just stuck with
Gmthe picture, painted vivid
G#That's a family portrait, and her
daughter just absorbed it
Cm7Sixteen, pregnant, baby daddy say
she should abort it (Jesus)
A#But we can't afford it, so she
decides to move forward (Lord)
Gm up
G#Now she just feeling nauseous like
she finna throw up
Cm7The water flows down her legs, yeah,
it's finna go up (Jesus)
A#A year done went by, her daughter
just turned one (Lord)
And she's still dependent on her mom
Gm
G#Big brother in the streets, he went
and bought him a gun
Cm7He want revenge 'cause the pain,
feelin' numb (Jesus)
A#And her mom still doing drugs 'cause
that's the only time she feel loved
(Lord)
Is it real love? Do the scars really
Gm heal up?
G# From all the pain that done
Cm7built up, but they don't feel us
(Jesus)
A#A week done flew by, big bro ridin'
then he see the guys (Lord)
Left his little brother on the side,
Gm bleeding from the side
G# He seein' red, it's like he's
bleeding through his eyes
Cm7To 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,
Gm this his last kill (Lord)
G# He gotta show him that it's that
real
Cm7He ran up on him with the pipe like,
"****, stand still" (Jesus)
A# "You took my brother life, you
made my mother cry" (Lord)
Gm"Tell me one reason I shouldn't send
you up to Christ"
G#He said, "Go 'head, take my life,
I've seen everything but Christ"
Cm7Then big bro just blacked out and
A#all you seen was the light (Jesus,
GmLord)
[Chorus: Kanye West]
G# Cm7 Tell me if you know someone
A# Gmthat needs (Jesus, Lord)
[Verse 2: Jay Electronica]
G#Uh-huh, in the name of the true and
living God, the beneficent, the
merciful (Hallelujah)
Cm7Thank you for bringing me up the
rough side of the mountain like
Ertuğrul (Jesus)
A#Every knee bowed and every tongue
confessed and paid homage (Lord)
To the monk who visited Rothschilds
Gmlike Thelonious did Pannonica (Shoo)
G#It's Jay Elec-entendre-nica comin'
through your monitor
Cm7Back from the great beyond like the
Son of Man or the Son of Donda?
(Jesus)
A#I never rolled the GSXR or the R6 or
the Honda (Lord)
But I flew my Ducati through North
GmAmerica like Wakanda
G#Earthquakes will strike this nation
for what Bush did to Rwanda (Facts)
Cm7What the Clintons did to Haiti and
Downing Street did to Ghana (Jesus)
A#In Tenochtitlan, they call me
Terremoto, El Negro Loco (Lord)
I shake the tectonic plates of the
Gmgame if I lay one vocal
G#The God is interstellar while you
fellas remain local
Cm7My bars is like the pyramid temples
of Pacal Votan (Jesus)
A#As sure as the C J confirmed
Ezekiel's Wheel (Lord)
I could change the world like Yacub
Gmwith two pieces of steel
G#My sword and my microphone, I swore
to the Christ's throne
Cm7But when you great, they wanna say
you took a L, José Castille (Jesus)
A#I'm in the fight here, fight here
for what seemed like lightyears
(Lord)
My rugged cross and thorny crowns
Gmsqueeze out Christ tears
G#Thirty pieces of silver clout, my
Pierre price tier
Cm7It's a war outside, it's a war
outside (Jesus)
A#It's like the last days of Sodom
Gmand Gomorrah outside (Lord)
[Chorus: Kanye West]
G# Cm7 Tell me if you know someone that
A# needs (Jesus, Lord)
Gm G#Now we've been through a lot of
things
Cm7Tell me if you know someone that
A#needs (Jesus, Lord)
Gm G#He lives in a lot of things
Cm7Tell me if you know someone that
A#needs (Jesus, Lord)
Gm G#Been through a lot of things
Cm7Tell me if you know someone that
A#needs (Jesus, Lord)
[Outro: Larry Hoover Jr. & Kanye
West]
Gm G#What up, Ye? This Larry Hoover Jr
First and foremost, I wanna thank
Cm7you 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
GmBut you were the one that did do
that
G# And with your assistance, we can
Cm7 continue to let the world take part
in this fight
A#You know, to me, it kinda feels like
Me, my mother, my brothers, and my
Gmkids
G#Have all been incarcerated through
this journey
Cm7And we haven't even been to jail
A#We have been looked at and treated
as criminals
For being a part of this family
Gm G#My father's truth and the reality
that he raised me in
Cm7Is that he wanted to make a change
in this community (Tell me if you
know someone that needs)
'Cause the conditions in this
A#capitalist society is what made him
And it is what made the children of
today
Gm G#After twenty-five years of bein'
locked down, twenty-three and one
Cm7My father has not called any shots
A#from one of the most secure and
segregated prisons in the world
GmAnd will not, once released, call
G#any shots for the Gangster Disciples
Cm7If my father's intentions were to
A#lead us to death, destruction
Into the Hell that he has had to
live in for the past twenty-six
years
Gm G# Man, he would be dead to me
Cm7 I didn't sign up for that
A#I didn't stay on this journey this
long for that
All my life, man
Gm G#I've been waitin' for my father to
come home
Cm7They told me when I graduate eighth
A# grade, he would be home
GmThen they told me when I
G#graduate from high school, he would
be home
Cm7 I went away to Morris Brown, I
A# graduated and he still ain't home
Now I'm a adult, and my daughter
Gm G#went away to college and graduated
Cm7He still not home
A#Now even more than that, my son, he
graduated eighth grade and we still
waitin'
Gm G#Matter of fact, he hasn't hugged,
kissed, or touched any of his
grandchildren
Cm7 And they haven't been able to
touch they grandfather
A#Even though it is not seen that way
for some of us
Gm G#But for many of us, Larry Hoover is
a beacon of hope for his community
Cm7Who deserves to breathe free air
A# N.C.
Free my father (Jesus), Mr. Larry
Hoover Sr. (Lord)