Oneohtrix - KNOW SOMEONE Lyrics

Tell me if you know someone that needs Jesus now
Sitting by myself, I'm just thinking
About all I've been through, I wish I was dreaming
Man, it's hard to be an angel when you're surrounded by demons

I watch so many people leave, I see them changed by the season
That's mama's season and God got you
The devil's watching, he just peeking in
But lately I've been losing all my deepest friends

And lately I've been swimming on the deepest end
It's just drugs, it ain't no hugs, it ain't no love there
You've been down so much you don't even know what's upstairs
Suicidal thoughts got you wondering what's up there

And why'd I introduce a party to 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
Then they tell you that you good and just stay focused

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
That woman rode with me like a Harley

Visions of my cousin in the cell really scar me
Moving to the hood was like signing up for the army
Cause they been killing niggas since niggas was watching Barney
Cause if that come to life then I might not be right here

Been in the dark so long, don't know what the light here
But I'm just reaching for the stars like Buzz Lightyear
And now I'm lightyears ahead of those nightmares
I dare to 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
But back to reality where everything's a tragedy
And you better have a strategy or you could be a statistic

Little boy dies, he just wanted a mystic
And mama steady crying cause she really the victim
Now she's getting high and she's getting addicted
And the older boy just stuck with the picture, painted vivid

That's a family portrait and her daughter just absorbed it
Sixteen, pregnant, baby daddy said she should've bought it but we can't afford it
So she decides to move forward, 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
A year didn't went by, her daughter just turned one
And she's still depending on her mom
Big brother in the streets, he went and bought him a gun

He want revenge cause the pain feeling numb
And her mom still doing drugs cause that's the only time she feel love
Is it real love, do the scars really heal love
From all the pain that been built up, but they don't feel us

A week then flew by, big bro riding, then he see the guys
Left his little brother on the side, bleeding from the side
He's seeing red, it's like it's bleeding through his eyes
To see him dead, the only thing that'll help the grieving up inside

He even let him get they last meal
He done with the streets after this, this his last kill
He gotta show him that it's that real
He ran up on him with a pipe like niggas staying still

You took my brother's life, you made my mother cry
Tell me one reason I shouldn't send you up to Christ
He said go ahead, take my life, I seen everything but Christ
The big bro just blacked out and all you seen was the light

Jesus, lawd
Tell me if you know someone, that needs
Jesus, lawd
A winner in a lot of things

Tell me if you know someone, that needs
Jesus, lawd
A winner in a lot of things
Tell me if you know someone, that needs

Jesus, lawd
A winner in a lot of things
Tell me if you know someone, that needs
Jesus, lawd