You canât live without hope that things will change for the better
You canât live without the dream of someone reading your letter
Weâve had dust storms before and spit out the dirt
Weâve had droughts before but none quite like this
Weâve had winds that cut up your face all to pieces
Black blizzards that stripped all the paint off your car
Fires like twisters no sisters of mercy
They come with no warning only that sound
God is roaring drunk and out on the town
Next year everything will come good
The rains they will fall and weâll dance on the hood
Weâll fill up our bellies with plentiful food
Weâll eat drink and be merry
Yeah next year people wait and see
Weâre next year people you and me
Henry got hit by lightning twice in the head
He stood and walked away, we thought he was dead
Now he talks funny says heâs wired to the sky
He walks for miles and miles and no one knows why
The bank men they came and wrote things down on paper
We all went outside and just stood around
We were glad when they left they brought nothing but heartache
And the seed we had planted it stayed in the ground
Next year everything will come good
The rains they will fall and weâll dance on the hood
Weâll fill up our bellies with plentiful food
Weâll eat drink and be merry
Yeah next year people wait and see
Weâre next year people you and me
Dry endless plains and we suffered the worst
Are we being punished or are we just cursed
Itâs almost ten years and no drop of rain
Only mocking blue skies bringing more of the same
Our mother was crying when they sent us away
With strangers in a town and we both rain away
Back to the dust and see Henry again
Weâre creatures of habit donât you know
And one day weâll reap what we sow
Next year everything will come good
The rains they will fall and weâll dance on the hood
Weâll fill up our bellies with plentiful food
Weâll eat drink and be merry
Yeah next year people wait and see
Weâre next year people you and me
Yeah next year people wait and see
Weâre next year people you and me
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- Next Year People
- Miscellaneous
- American Sunshine
- Man At Work
- Going Somewhere
- Gathering Mercury
- Man @ Work
- Peaks & Valleys
- Going Somewhere (Extended Version)
- Company of Strangers
- Are You Looking at Me?
- Men at Work Brazil 96
- Music From Scrubs
- Looking for Jack
- Transcendental Highway
- Topanga
- Music Live From The Panel
- Garden State
- Gold Diggers: The Secret of Bear Mountain
- Company of Strangers (Brown Bag Edition)