The Next Generation

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, thank you

Mothers and daughters, fathers and sons

Here's hoping you'll know the right time when it comes

Like I did, 'cause I know though nobody told me a damn thing

About how life unfolds

Right there before you, you can't even blink

If you do, you will 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, yo, 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?

Yeah, uh-huh, yeah, uh-huh

So check this out

Hey, what's this sittin' in my lap?

Why it's the next generation

And do you know what comes from the best love in the world

You could possible ever have?

Yes, it's the next generation

The children are the chosen ones

Society's got its priorities wrong

The schools are closin' down

Don't be messin' with our future

Black babies, white babies

Quarter Puerto Rican, two-sixths Chinese

Any combination you could possibly imagine

But this is important as the ground that we walk on

People are people, you know what I mean?

Even the baby with the portable phone

Attached to his buggy and pushed by a clone

And the black market baby, that unwanted baby

For 50,000 dollars, it belonged to the rich lady

Didn't like his face

She said it didn't matter 'cause her husband was a surgeon

Sick

Ain't that, ain't that, ain't that, ain't that sick

Shucks, it breaks my heart

Operate on a baby? Uh, sick

Hey, what's that sittin' in my lap?

Why it's the next generation

And do you know what comes from the best love in the world

You could possible 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

Push, push, push in the bush

Down on your knees with the birds and the bees

Your basic needs is what you're fulfillin'

The stork down this way must be makin' a killin'

'Cause then in a month, she finds herself illin'

You planted a seed that won't grow a tree

'Cause the love that's showin' is a baby growin'

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

That's nasty, ain't it?

If you're gonna do it

Think before you do it, then do it right, right?

Hey, what's this sittin' 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 possible 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, you look at them, right

Old people, guys on the corner holdin' on

Girls, right, walkin' along, arm in arm

Spittin' on the pavement and 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