Donny Hathaway — We Need You Right Now

[Intro] Here's a song that I wrote about three weeks ago Every once in a while I like to write something to my Creator because I believe in Him "We Need You Right Now" [Verse 1] There's no one else to turn to But you, yeah You're the only answer to the situation That we've gotten ourself into [Chorus] So Master, won't you please come down And give us a helping hand 'Cause we need You, mhm We need You right now, mhm [Verse 2] There's a lot of people going hungry 'Cause they can't get nothin' to eat, woo-hoo-hoo There's a lot of people going naked, naked They ain't even got clothes to put on their feet [Chorus] So Master, won't you please come down, come down And give us a helping hand Hey, 'cause we need You Said we need You right now, ooh-hoo-hoo [Bridge] Right now Right now, Lordy Said we need You right now I said we need You, yes, we do We need You right now, mhm [Verse 3] I said man has gotten out of hand With his evil ways, yeah, yeah, yeah Can't you see that he, he isn't strong enough Just a little bit more each and every day [Chorus] So Master, won't you please come down And give us, Lord have mercy, a helping hand Hey, 'cause we need You, mhm We need You right now [Outro] Woo, woo, woo, woo, woo-hoo, oh Right now, Lord Hey, hey, right now Said we need you We need you, right now, mhm Hey, we need You, Lord have mercy Said we need You right now Woo-hoo-hoo-ooh, woo-hoo Yeah, right now, Lordy We need you, Lord Hey, hey, hey, hey, we need You, mhm, right now Said we need You, we need You, we need You We need You right now We need You right now, yeah We need You right now, yes, we do, oh We need You right now Hey, hey, hey, said we need You right now Hey, hey, I said we need You, mhm Yeah, hey, hey, said we need You Thank you, Lord, right now, yeah, yeah