[Intro]
Autumn breeze, a spring tease
Summer days and winter nights
The seasons change and that's a fact
Is it not?
Domo arigato, ha, danke, merci, thank you
[Verse 1]
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 life unfolds
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 thin and thick
With your heart and your soul, not the size of your dick
[Interlude]
Yeah, uh-huh, yeah, uh-huh
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
[Verse 2]
The children are the chosen ones
Society's got it's priorities 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
That this important as the ground we walk on
People are people, you know what I mean?
Even the baby with the portable phone
Attached to its buggy and pushed by a clone
And the black market baby, that unwanted baby
For fifty thousand dollars, it belonged to the rich lady
Didn't like his face, she said it didn't matter
'Cause her husband was a surgeon
Ha ha ha ha, uh, sick
Ain't that, ain't that, ain't that sick?
Shucks, it breaks my heart
Operate on a baby, uh, sick
[Interlude]
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
[Bridge]
Free up
[Verse 3]
Push, push, push, in the bush
Down on your knees with the birds and bees
Your basic needs is what you're fulfilling
This stork down this way must be making a killing
'Cause then in a month, she finds herself illin'
You planted a seed that won't grow a tree
'Cause the loaf that's showing's a baby growing
Inside there's a life that's well worth knowin', knowin', knowin'
Ha ha ha ha ha ha, that's nasty, ain't it?
If you're gonna do it, think before you do it
And do it right - right?
Yeah, yeah
[Interlude]
Hey, what's this sitting in my lap?
Why, it's the next generation (Ah 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, mmm
[Outro]
You know, you know, you see some people
You look at them, right, old people
Guys on the corner holding on
Girls, right, walking along 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 gon' 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, right, haha