Kanye West - Jesus Lord(2021)

[00:34.17] Tell me if you know someone that needs (Jesus, Lord)
[00:42.87] Now, we've been through a lot of things
[00:45.98] Tell me if you know someone that needs (Jesus, Lord)
[00:54.57] He lives in a lot of things
[00:57.72] Tell me if you know someone that needs (Jesus, Lord)
[01:06.51] Been through a lot of things
[01:09.45] Tell me if you know someone that needs (Jesus, Lord)
[01:18.84] Sittin' by myself, I'm just thinkin'
[01:20.99] About all I've been through, I wish I was dreamin'
[01:23.86] Man, it's hard to be an angel when you surrounded by demons (Jesus, Lord)
[01:26.59] I watched so many people leave
[01:27.83] I see 'em change by the season, that's mama's seasonin'
[01:30.48] God got you, the devil's watchin', he just peekin' in
[01:33.34] I know I made a promise that I'd never let the reaper in (Jesus)
[01:36.59] But lately, I've been losin' all my deepest friends (Lord)
[01:39.45] And lately, I've been swimmin' on the deepest end
[01:42.53] It's just drugs, it ain't no hugs, it ain't no love there
[01:45.68] You been down so much you don't even know what's upstairs
[01:48.38] Suicidal thoughts got you wonderin' what's up there (Jesus, Lord)
[01:51.46] And while I introduce the party, they say it's up there
[01:54.06] Too many pills, so much potions, so much pain, too many emotions
[01:56.96] And everything that you do good, it just go unnoticed (Jesus)
[02:00.26] Then they tell you that you good and just stay focused (Lord)
[02:03.36] Mama, you was the life of the party
[02:06.23] I swear you brought life to the party
[02:08.69] When you lost your life, it took the life out the party (Jesus)
[02:12.34] That woman rode with me like a Harley (Lord)
[02:14.66] Visions of my cousins in a cell really scarred me
[02:17.75] Movin' to the hood was like signin' up for the army
[02:20.18] 'Cause they been killin' n- since n- was watchin' Barney (Jesus)
[02:23.03] You want dreams to come true? But I have nightmares (Lord)
[02:25.93] 'Cause if that come to life, then I might not be right here
[02:28.44] Been in the dark so long, don't know if the light here
[02:31.51] But I'm just reachin' for the stars like Buzz Lightyear (Jesus)
[02:34.39] And now I'm light years ahead of those nightmares (Lord)
[02:37.28] I deaded those night terrors when the night clears
[02:40.63] And if I talk to Christ, can I bring my mother back to life?
[02:43.73] And if I die tonight, will I see her in the afterlife? (Jesus)
[02:46.63] But back to reality where everything's a tragedy (Lord)
[02:49.51] And better have a strategy or you could be a statistic
[02:52.69] Little boy dies, he's just one of the mystic
[02:55.21] And mama steady cryin' 'cause she really the victim (Jesus)
[02:58.33] Now she's gettin' high and she's gettin' addicted (Lord)
[03:01.17] And her older boy just stuck with the picture, painted vivid
[03:04.05] That's a family portrait and her daughter just absorbed it
[03:07.13] 16, pregnant, baby daddy say she should abort it (Jesus)
[03:09.92] But we can't afford it, so she decides to move forward (Lord)
[03:12.89] Baby shower time, father didn't show up
[03:15.69] Now she just feelin' nauseous like she finna throw up
[03:18.40] The water flows down her legs, yeah, it's finna go up (Jesus)
[03:21.74] A year done went by, her daughter just turned one (Lord)
[03:24.36] And she's still dependent on her mom
[03:27.16] Big brother in the streets, he went and bought him a gun
[03:30.40] He want revenge 'cause the pain, feelin' numb (Jesus)
[03:33.13] And her mom still doin' drugs 'cause that's the only time she feel loved (Lord)
[03:36.59] But is it real love? Do the scars really heal up?
[03:39.48] From all the pain that been built up, but they don't feel us (Jesus)
[03:45.17] A week done flew by, big bro ridin' then he see the guys (Lord)
[03:48.04] Left his little brother on the side, bleedin' from the side
[03:51.13] He seein' red, it's like he's bleedin' through his eyes
[03:53.45] To see him dead, the only thing that'll help the grievin' up inside (Jesus)
[03:56.87] He even let him get they last meal (Lord)
[03:59.45] He done with the streets after this, this his last kill
[04:02.90] He gotta show him that it's that real
[04:05.38] He ran up on him with the pipe like, "N-, stand still" (Jesus)
[04:09.04] "You took my brother life, you made my mother cry" (Lord)
[04:11.56] "Tell me one reason I shouldn't send you up to Christ"
[04:14.30] He said, "Go 'head, take my life, I've seen everything but Christ"
[04:17.48] The big bro just blacked out and all you seein' was the light (Jesus, Lord)
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[04:28.39] Tell me if you know someone that needs (Jesus, Lord)
[04:36.71] Uh-huh, in the name of the true and living God
[04:39.37] The beneficent, the merciful (Hallelujah)
[04:40.71] Thank you for bringin' me up the rough side of the mountain like Ertuğrul (Jesus)
[04:43.85] Every knee bowed and every tongue confessed and paid homage (Lord)
[04:46.65] To the monk who visited Rothschilds like Thelonious did Pannonica (sheesh)
[04:49.46] It's Jay Elec-entendre-nica comin' through your monitor
[04:52.38] Back from the great beyond, the Son of Man and the son of Donda (Jesus)
[04:55.27] I never rolled the GXSR or the R6 or the Honda (Lord)
[04:58.14] But I flew my Ducati through North America like Wakanda
[05:01.07] Earthquakes will strike this nation for what Bush did to Rwanda (facts)
[05:04.18] What the Clintons did to Haiti and Downing Street did to Ghana
[05:06.99] In Tenochtitlan they call me Terremoto, El Negro Loco (Jesus)
[05:09.74] I shake the tectonic plates of the game if I lay one vocal (Lord)
[05:12.83] The God is interstellar while you fellas remain local
[05:15.79] My bars is like the pyramid temples of Pacal Votan (Jesus)
[05:18.87] As sure as the DOJ confirmed Ezekiel's Wheel (Lord)
[05:21.43] I could change the world like Yacub with two pieces of steel
[05:24.27] My sword and my microphone, I swore to the Christ's throne
[05:27.43] But when you great, they wanna say you took an L, José Castillo (Jesus)
[05:30.36] I'm in the fight here, fight here, for what seemed like light years (Lord)
[05:33.11] My rugged cross and thorny crowns squeeze out Christ tears
[05:36.27] 30 pieces of silver clout, my Pierre price tier
[05:39.14] It's a war outside, it's a war outside (Jesus)
[05:41.66] It's like the last days of Sodom and Gomorrah outside (Lord)
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[05:50.37] Tell me if you know someone that needs (Jesus, Lord)
[05:58.71] We've been through a lot of things
[06:02.09] Tell me if you know someone that needs (Jesus, Lord)
[06:10.84] He lives in a lot of things
[06:13.73] Tell me if you know someone that needs (Jesus, Lord)
[06:22.57] Been through a lot of things
[06:25.52] Tell me if you know someone that needs (Jesus, Lord)
[06:32.84] What up, Ye? This Larry Hoover Jr.
[06:35.74] First and foremost, I wanna thank you
[06:37.83] For taking the fight for my father to the Oval Office
[06:41.20] You might not have been the only one that could've did that
[06:44.10] But you were the one that did do that
[06:47.19] And with your assistance
[06:48.57] We can continue to let the world take part in this fight
[06:51.86] You know to me it kinda feels like, me, my mother, my brothers
[06:57.04] And my kids have all been incarcerated through this journey
[07:01.05] And we haven't even been to jail
[07:03.35] We've been looked at and treated as criminals, for being a part of this family
[07:08.62] My father's truth and the reality that he raised me in
[07:12.07] Is that he wanted to make a change in this community
[07:14.79] 'Cause the conditions in this capitalist society
[07:17.20] Is what made him, and it's what made the children of today
[07:20.94] After 25 years of bein' locked down, 23 and 1
[07:24.50] My father has not called any shots
[07:27.18] From one of the most secure and segregated prisons in the world
[07:30.87] And will not, once released
[07:33.48] Call any of the shots for the Gangster Disciples
[07:35.88] If my father's intentions were to lead us to death, destruction
[07:40.04] Into the hell that he has had to live in for the past 26 years
[07:45.01] Man, he would be dead to me
[07:48.74] I didn't sign up for that
[07:50.51] I didn't stay on this journey this long for that
[07:53.62] All my life, man, I've been waitin' for my father to come home
[07:59.33] They told me when I graduate eighth grade, he would be home
[08:06.45] Then they told me when I graduate from high school, he would be home
[08:12.15] I went away to Morris Brown, I graduated and he still ain't home
[08:17.72] Now I'm a adult, and my daughter went away to college and graduated
[08:22.66] He still not home
[08:24.28] Now even more than that, my son
[08:27.06] He graduated eighth grade and we still waitin'
[08:30.69] Matter of fact, he hasn't hugged
[08:32.78] Kissed, or touched any of his grandchildren
[08:35.65] And they haven't been able to touch they grandfather
[08:37.99] Even though it is not seen that way for some of us
[08:41.55] But for many of us, Larry Hoover is a beacon of hope for his community
[08:46.02] Who deserves to breathe free air
[08:48.83] Free my father (Jesus), Mr. Larry Hoover Sr. (Lord)
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