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