N E X T

 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!

 

 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 headof 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 other's 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!

 

 One day I'll cut my legs off

 I'll burn myself alive

 I'll do anything to get out of life, to survive

 Not ever to be next, Next! Next!

 Not ev....er... to be next, not ev............er.....ahh