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