Key: G major•
Verse 1
summer days and winter nights
The seasons change and that's a fact
Is it not
Interlude 1
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Verse 2
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
Verse 3
your soul not the size of your dick.
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Yeah, Uh huh yeah uh huh
So check this out
hey what's this sitting in my lap
Why it's the Next Generation.
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And do you know what comes from
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the best love in the world you could possibly
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Yes it's the next generation
Verse 4
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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,
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but this important as the ground We walk on,
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 - sick
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Ain't ain't that ain't that sick -
shucks it breaks my heart.
Operate on a baby urr sick.
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Verse 5
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Bbm
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Hey what's that sitting in my lap
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Why it's the Next Generation.
And do you know what comes from the best
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love in the world you could possibly
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C
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ever have,
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Yes it's the next generation
Verse 6
you awake at night
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Sometimes and mess on your clothes
that you worry about
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rifices that we all have to make
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no matter how rich or poor
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Bm
Why yes they're the next gen eration
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honey
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Am
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(free up)
Verse 7
This dude down this way must be
'Cause then in the morning
she finds herself illing
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You planted a seed that won't
grow a tree
'Cause the love that's showing
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Inside there's a life that's well worth knowing,
If you're gonna do it,
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think before you do it and do it right - right
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Verse 8
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D
Bbm
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Hey what's this sitting in my lap
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B
F#
tion oh yeah
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And do you know what comes from the best
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Yes it's the next generation
Verse 9
And is it true that even though they
keep you awake at night
that you worry about
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Whether it's really worth the sacri
fices that we all have to make
no matter how rich or poor
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generation honey
people look at them right,
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Arm in arm,
spittin' on the pavement or whatever
forgotten or if they just
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 uh uh...
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