Jesus Lord

Album: Donda (2021)
Charted: 26
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  • 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)
    We done seen 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've 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 see 'em 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 they introduce the party, they 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)
    Did He tell you that you good and 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 cousin in a cell really scarred me
    Movin' to the hood was like signin' up for the army
    'Cause they been killin' n- since n- 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 if 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 terrors when the night clears
    And if I talk to Christ, can 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 you 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)
    How she's getting high and she's getting addicted (Lord)
    And her older boy just stuck with the picture, painted vivid
    That's a family portrait, and her daughter just absorbed it
    Sixteen, pregnant, baby daddy says 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
    Now she just 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 been built up, but they don't feel us (Jesus)
    A week done flew by, 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-, 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"
    Then big bro just blacked out and all you seen was the light (Jesus, 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)
    We done seen 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)

    Uh-huh, in the name of the true and living God, the beneficent, the merciful (Hallelujah)
    Thank you for bringing me up the rough side of the mountain like Ertugrul (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
    My sword and my microphone, I swore to the Christ's throne
    But when you great, they wanna say you took an L, Jose 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 Pierre price tier
    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)
    We done seen 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)
    Because the conditions in this capitalist society is what made him
    And it's 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 segregated prisons in the world
    And will not, once released, call any 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 an adult, and my daughter went away to college and graduated
    He's 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) Writer/s: Elpadaro Allah, Kanye Omari West, Kasseem Dean, Larry Jr. Hoover, Malik Yusef El Shabbaz Jones, Michael Dean, Mike Levy
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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