Next Lyrics - Singles - Alex Harvey

Naked a sin 

An army towel, covering my belly 

Some of us weep, some of us howl 

Knees turn to jelly, but Next! Next! 

I was just a child 

A hundred like me 

I followed a naked body 

A naked body followed me, Next! Next! 

I was just a child when my innocence was lost 

In a mobile army whorehouse 

A gift of the army, free of cost. Next! Next! Next! 

meaning 

 byJuanHuNose 

From memory there's a bit missing from the end. I saw and heard the great man perform it (Reading 1973). I also have the album. I think it goes, "One day I'll… See all 

Me, I really would have liked a little bit of tenderness 

Maybe a word, maybe a smile, maybe some happiness, but Next! Next! 

Oh, it was not so tragic 

and heaven did not fall 

But how much at that time 

I hated being there at all, Next! Next! 

I still recall the brothel trucks, the flying flags 

The queer lieutenant slapped our arses 

He's thinking we are fags. Next! Next! Next! 

I swear on the wet head of my 

First case of gonorrhea 

It is his ugly voice that I forever fear, Next! Next! 

A voice that stinks of whiskey, corpses and of mud 

The voice of nations 

The thick voice of blood, Next! Next! 

Since then each woman I have taken into bed 

They seem to lie in my arms 

And they whisper in my head, Next! Next! 

Oh, the naked and the dead 

Could hold each others hands 

As they watch me dream at night 

In a dream that nobody understands 

And though I am not dreaming in a voice grown dry 'n' hollow 

I stand on endless naked lines of the following and the followed 

The Next! Next!