The Next Generation Lyrics - Raw Like Sushi - Neneh Cherry

Autumn Breeze, a Spring Tease 

Summer days and winter nights 

The seasons change and that's a fact 

Is it not Domo Arigato, Danke, Merci? 

Mothers and daughters, fathers and sons 

Here's hoping you'll 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 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 

So 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 its priorities wrong 

The schools are closing down 

Don't be messing with our future 

Black babies, white babies 

Quarter Puerto Ricans, two-sixth's 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 

You're sick 

Ain't, ain't that ain't that sick? 

Shucks, it breaks my heart 

Operate on a baby, 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 illing 

You planted a seed that won't grow a tree 

'Cause the love that's showing is a baby growing 

Inside there's a life that's well worth knowing, knowin', knowin' 

That's nasty ain't it? If you're gonna do it 

Think before you do it and do it right, right 

Hey, 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 walking arm in arm 

Spittin' on the pavement or whatever 

And you wonder right if they've forgotten or if they just 

Can'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 right 

And god knows we love this world right 

Ain't that right, so right 

Right, right, right, right?