Lyrics The Next Generation - Neneh Cherry

The Next Generation

Autumn breeze, a spring tease
Summer days and winter nights
The seasons change and thats a fact
Is it not
Domo arigato, danke, merci
Mothers and daughters, fathers and sons
Heres hoping youll know the right time when it comes
Like I did cause I knew though nobody told
Me a damn thing about how the world grows
Right here before you, you cant even blink if you do youll miss it so take time
to think
About your position, your place in this world
About what youre here for so check it out girl
Boys to the right and youre in this too
Come on be real now can we count on you
To be strong and to love us like through thick and thin with your heart and
your soul not the size of your dick.
Yeah, uh huh yeah uh huh
So check this out
Hey whats this sitting in my lap
Why its the next generation.
And do you know what comes from the best love in the world you could possibly
ever have,
Yes its the next generation
The children are the chosen ones,
Societys got its piorities wrong.
the schools are closing down.
Dont be messing with our future — black babies, white babies,
Quarter puerto ricans, two sixths chinese,
Any combination you could possibly imagine,
But this important as the ground we walk on, people are people you know what I mean,
Even the baby with a portaphone
Attached to its buggy pushed by a clone
And the black market baby that unwanted baby.
For 50,000 it belonged to the rich
Well he didnt like his face,
She said it didnt matter
cause her husband was a surgeon.
Ha ha ha ha — urr — sick
Aint aint that aint that sick —
Shucks it breaks my heart.
Operate on a baby urr sick.
Hey whats that sitting in my lap
Why its the next generation.
And do you know what comes from the best love in the world you could possibly
ever have,
Yes its the next generation
And is it true that even though they keep you awake at night
Sometimes and mess on your clothes that you worry about
Whether its really worth the sacrifices that we all have to make
No matter how rich or poor
Why yes theyre the next generation honey
(free up)
Push push push, in the bush down on your knees with the birds and bees
Your basic needs is what youre fulfilling
This dude down this way must be making a killing
cause then in the morning
She finds herself illing
You planted a seed that wont grow a tree
cause the love thats showing is a baby growing
Inside theres a life thats well worth knowing, knowin, knowin
Ha ha ha ha thats nasty aint it If youre gonna do it, think before you do it and do it right — right
Hey whats this sitting in my lap
Why its the next generation oh yeah
And do you know what comes from the best love in the world you could possibly
ever have,
Yes its the next generation
And is it true that even though they keep you awake at night
Sometimes and mess on your clothes that you worry about
Whether its really worth the sacrifices that we all have to make
No matter how rich or poor
Why yes theyre the next generation honey
You know, you know you see some people look at them right,
Old people, guys on the corner holding on, girls right walking
Arm in arm, spittin on the pavement or whatever
And you wonder right if theyve forgotten or if they just
Cant remember that they ever were small one time,
cause God knows we got to save the babies right,
cause if we dont save the babies
We aint gonna have a world to live in right
And God knows we love this world right,
Aint that, right so right.
Right right right… right uh uh…