My eldest son was just a few months old when this song was making it big in the airwaves. I continued my life as a new mom while the artists of this song continued raking money from royalties and all. Not even one of the words in the song hit me. It was just one of the songs… I guess. Heard today…gone tomorrow. That was 17 years ago. I’m now in my 40’s and I am starting to become so emo… (as what teenagers call it) about everything. What has life to offer me now that I am growing old? Am I really next in line? Yeah, I am indeed next in line. I am growing old. But wait, growing old depends on how you look at life. Being 44 is not stereotypical if you try to make a difference. It’s not difficult if you find ways to make life easy. Life offers a lot of things as we grow old. We may not look as young as we used to physically but we can always feel young not only in the heart but in our mind. Six years from now I’ll be 50…golden girl. My youngest will hopefully be graduating in high school, my second in college, and my eldest, about to finish his master’s degree in Communication Arts. By then, my husband and I can relax a bit. I can again sit in my easy chair as I listen to the song Next in Line, and probably I will then have a new interpretation of its lyrics.
What has life to offer me when i grow old?
What’s there to look forward to beyond the biting cold
They say it’s difficult, yes, stereotypical.
What’s there beyond sleep, eat, work in this cruel life
Ain’t there nothin’ else ’round here but human strife
‘Cause they say it’s difficult, yes, stereotypical
Gotta be conventional, you can’t be so radical.
Chorus:
So I sing this song to all of my age
For these are the questions we’ve got to face
For in this cycle that we call life
We are the ones who are next in line
We are next in line.
What has life to offer me when i grow old?
What’s there to look forward to beyond the biting cold
‘Cause they say it’s difficult, yes, stereotypical
Gotta be conventional, you can’t be so radical.
So I sing this song to all of my age
For these are the questions we’ve got to face
For in this cycle that we call life
We are the ones who are next in line
We are next in line
Oh-hoh, we are next in line.
Bridge:
And we gotta work, we gotta feel (we gotta feel)
Let’s open our eyes and do whatever it takes
We gotta work, we gotta feel (we gotta feel)
Let’s open our eyes, oh-woh
And sing this song to all of our age
For these are the questions we’ve got to face
For in this cycle that we call life
We are the ones who are next in line
What has life to offer me when i grow old?
What’s there to look forward to beyond the biting cold
They say it’s difficult, yes, stereotypical.
What’s there beyond sleep, eat, work in this cruel life
Ain’t there nothin’ else ’round here but human strife
‘Cause they say it’s difficult, yes, stereotypical
Gotta be conventional, you can’t be so radical.
Chorus:
So I sing this song to all of my age
For these are the questions we’ve got to face
For in this cycle that we call life
We are the ones who are next in line
We are next in line.
What has life to offer me when i grow old?
What’s there to look forward to beyond the biting cold
‘Cause they say it’s difficult, yes, stereotypical
Gotta be conventional, you can’t be so radical.
So I sing this song to all of my age
For these are the questions we’ve got to face
For in this cycle that we call life
We are the ones who are next in line
We are next in line
Oh-hoh, we are next in line.
Bridge:
And we gotta work, we gotta feel (we gotta feel)
Let’s open our eyes and do whatever it takes
We gotta work, we gotta feel (we gotta feel)
Let’s open our eyes, oh-woh
And sing this song to all of our age
For these are the questions we’ve got to face
For in this cycle that we call life
We are the ones who are next in line
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