I'm Asking

I'm asking all you mothers

Do your children get jived?

The garbage is piled upon them

Do you think they'll survive?

You send them to the movies

What you think that they'll see?

You know that that won't be love

That's that rated G.P

They can watch a murder

A rapist or a cheat

Armies killing millions

And violence in our streets

I'm asking

Yes, I'm asking

But law's naked bodies

Are still not for young eyes

I'm asking all you mothers

Do you tell your children lies?

How do you think they'll grow up

If they're weaned upon a gun?

Or stories of how the star

Has bought you your new car?

Feel the resentment

As awareness fills their eyes

When truth is discovered

If they leave you cold, don't you be surprised

I'm asking

I'm asking all you mothers

I'm asking

All you mothers to be

I'm asking

For the sake of our children

Don't take away their right

The right to be free

I'm asking all you young girls

Have you learned about love's pleasures?

Or did your parents bind your morals

Restrain you from love's treasures?

Turn and look behind you

Was your mother really there?

Your child looks a lot like you

For her sake I hope you'll be fair

You want your kids to grow up

With the things you never had

Then give them all the freedom

Respect their values of good and bad

I'm asking

Yes, I'm asking

I'm asking

I'm asking

Do you tell your children lies?

I'm asking

I'm asking

I'm asking

Yes, I'm asking

I'm asking

I'm asking

I'm asking