Apparent Absence

Yeah
 Iso
 For the kids
 Yeah
 This song will get the people talking
 So everybody quiet, please settle down
 It's apparent like a mom and dad
 That this song like Pac needs to get around
 Now think about a ghetto child whose mom and dad are never found
 So they get placed all day around to whoever now
 And let's say it's all broken people around them
 So their mirror a broken mirror soon is where they're headed wow
 Like a chopper, I'll attempt to cover hella ground
 Daycare and rent cost the same, check it out
 So while you're training for a new job
 Your baby is around people with no home training
 Let me stress it now
 If one in five girls or one in 20 boys gets assaulted
 Sexually in America, that's hella wild
 Not to mention if you do the math it means that there is somebody potentially around them that gets aroused
 And due to strict nature that a parent has
 If something happens to them they'll be scared to go and tell 'em how
 Somebody violated them, it could be family or still a baby unable to speak, an undeveloped child
 And what will soon develop all distorted views on sex on top of low self-esteem plus depression now
 Even being withdrawn, suicide is where it led him, wild, is the picture starting to develop now?
 Now picture every family's deep dark secrets that everyone fakes to forget about
 And picture how the family reunions have to feel with your anxiety while you're faking hella smiles
 Then picture the street code 'cause everybody's seen it
 It don't matter if you're black, white, yellow, brown
 And the prisons don't even have to let him out
 Because of charges that you never filed on a pedophile
 So many are hurt and take no action
 The type of hurt that many don't come back from
 So please be aware 'cause you can't tell what happens
 To all our kids within a parent's absence
 (And the kids say) where was my mommy? Where was my dad?
 (And the babies say) where was my mommy? Where was my dad?
 (Let the children say) where was my mommy? Where was my dad?
 (They were feeling like) where were my parents? Oh, I'm so sad
 Ain't no telling the thoughts of an individual grown
 When 90 percent of the life, the kid was alone
 Where was your mom and daddy, not getting along?
 And dating a bunch of strangers that enter your home
 Embarrassing killers 'cause now your kid is exposed
 They wanna be like you so now they get to indulge
 The little ones see you constantly pick up the phone
 And you forgot to set the parental controls
 The more I think about it yo' my temperament grows
 'Cause back then, informing us wasn't digital, bro
 The men and women that did it were sickening, yo
 With no computer to sit behind, it was physical bro
 Because it happened to me and then think so many before
 These are bars for the deserving of imprisonment, bro
 And to think I was busy minding my business, you know
 Playing Sega Genesis, eating a cinnamon roll
 Damn, now my sex addiction it grows
 Love isn't connected to it, it wasn't close
 Too many relationships have ended in float
 So my drive was for intercourse and I did it to cope
 Riding 'round listening to Citizen Cope
 About to burn a Penitentiary and it was the most
 Vivid description that I can feel in my soul
 'Cause it was more mental how I'm really engulfed
 I gotta sickening soul dark, it was lit up before
 But now it's rigid and dull, I gotta dip it in gold
 As an infant, was immature, had to give up the ghost
 I was robbed of my innocence, pennies ripped from my coat
 This is the most intrinsic 'cause when you're ripping the flow
 The tears I did when I wrote this, it was written in gold
 To only be gotten by victims, you don't get it, you know
 If you ain't been through it, quit your insolence, give 'em a poke
 This is a dose, General 'So
 So many are hurt and take no action
 The type of hurt that many don't come back from
 So please be aware 'cause you can't tell what happens
 To all our kids within a parent's absence
 (And the kids say) where was my mommy? Where was my dad?
 (And the babies say) where was my mommy? Where was my dad?
 (Let the children say) where was my mommy? Where was my dad?
 (They were feeling like) where were my parents? Oh, I'm so sad
 Save the children, y'all
 Save the children, y'all
 Save the children, y'all
 Save the children, y'all
 Where was mommy? Where was my dad?
 Where was mommy? Where was my dad?
 Where was mommy? Where was my dad?
 Where were my parents? Oh, I'm so sad