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