Apparent Absence - King Iso

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 your door 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Even being withdrawn, suicide is where it led him, wild, is the picture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