Neneh Cherry: The next generation

Autumn Breeze, a Spring Teasesummer days and winter nightsThe seasons change and that's a factIs it notDomo Arigato, Danke, MerciMothers and daughters, fathers and sonshere's hoping you'll know the right time when it comes like I did 'cause I knew though nobody toldme a damn thing about how The world grows right here before you, you can't even blink If you do you'll miss it so take time to think about your position, your place in this world about what you're here for so check it out girl Boys to the right and you're 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 huhSo check this out hey what's this sitting in my lap Why it's the Next Generation. And do you know what comes From the best love in the world you could possibly ever have,Yes it's the next generation The children are the chosen ones, society's got it's piorities Wrong. The schools are closing down. Don't 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 didn't like his face,She said it didn't matter 'cause her husband was a surgeon.Ha ha ha ha - urr - sickAin't ain't that ain't that sick - shucks it breaks my heart. Operate on a baby urr sick. Hey what's that sitting in my lap Why it's the Next Generation. And do you know what comes From the best love in the world you could possibly ever have,Yes it's 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 it's really worth the sacrifices that we all have to make no matter how rich or poor Why yes they're 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 you're fulfilling This dude down this way must be making a killing'Cause then in the morning she finds herself illingYou planted a seed that won't grow a tree'Cause the love that's showing is a baby growingInside there's a life that's well worth knowing, knowin, knowinHa ha ha ha that's nasty ain't itIf you're gonna do it, think before you do it and do it right - rightHey what's this sitting in my lap Why it's the Next Generation oh yeah And do you know what comes From the best love in the world you could possibly ever have,Yes it's 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 it's really worth the sacrifices that we all have to make no matter how rich or poor Why yes they're 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 walkingArm in arm, spittin' on the pavement or whateverAnd you wonder right if they've forgotten or if they justCan't remember that they ever were small one time,'Cause god knows we got to save the babies right,'Cause if we don't save the babies we ain't Gonna have a world to live in rightAnd god knows we love this world right, ain't that, right so right.Right right right... right uh uh...