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Next - Scott Walker

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Naked as sin, an army towel

Covering my belly

Some of us blush, somehow

Knees turning to jelly

Next, next

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I was still just a kid

There were a hundred like me

I followed a naked body

A naked body follwed me

next, next

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I was still just a kid

When my innocence was lost

In a mobile army whorehouse

Gift from the army, free of cost

Next, next

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Me, I really would have liked

A little touch of tenderness

Maybe a word, a smile

An hour of happiness

But, next, next

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Oh, it wasn't so tragic

The high heavens did not fall

But how much of that time

I hated being there at all

Next, next Now I always will recall

The brothel truck, the flying flags

The queer lieutenant who slapped

Our asses as if we were fags

Next, ne xt

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I swear on the wet head

Of my first case of gonorrhea

It is his ugly voice

That I forever hear

Next, next

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That voice that stinks of whiskey

Of corpses and of mud

It is the voice of nations

It is the thick voice of blood

Next, next

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And since the each woman

I have taken to bed

Seems to laugh in my arms

To whisper through my head

Next, next

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All the naked and the dead

Should hold each other's hands

As they watch me scream at night

In a dream no one understands

Next, next

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And when I am not screaming

In a voice grown dry and hollow

I stand on endless naked lines

Of the following and the followed

Next, next

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One day I'll cut my legs off

Or burn myself alive

Anything, I'll do anything

To get out of line to survive

Never to be next

Never to be next.

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