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You can always get it right next time, next time
You can always get it right next time, next time

You can count on me
To mess it up
You can count on me
To let you down again
And in time you'll see
That I'm your only friend

You can always get it right next time, next time
You can always get it right next time, next time

Comfort in community
Obliterated
Given opportunity I hesitated
Even my humility's
Humilitated

You can always get it right next time, next time
You can always get it right next time, next time

When you die they make a list
Of every love you never kissed
Of each regret and each mistake
Every choice you failed to make

You can always get it right next time, next time
You can always get it right next time, next time

It's a shame I have to wait
Until the ending
Everytihng I've yet to break
Is surely bending
Every vow I take
Is just pretending
That this mess I make
Is worth defending

You can always get it right next time, next time
You can always get it right next time, next time
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Cover art for Next Time lyrics by Barenaked Ladies

All the mistakes you make with me (well, him), is just experience for the next guy.

Cover art for Next Time lyrics by Barenaked Ladies

Yea, like trial and error. Maybe a friend that screw stuff up for him/her friend.

Cover art for Next Time lyrics by Barenaked Ladies

This song is about feeling like nothing you do is right, and either being told "you can always get it right next time" or thinking it. Just generally feeling like you made an ass out of yourself and screwed up AGAIN.

Cover art for Next Time lyrics by Barenaked Ladies

i think its about cheating in a relationship.. she did, he didnt, but got offered.. but theres always a next time.

Cover art for Next Time lyrics by Barenaked Ladies

I agree with Brenlo, and so it applies to me...

Cover art for Next Time lyrics by Barenaked Ladies

This song is about taking risks. It's about taking chances. It's about even if the person you are with isnt the person you'll be with forever, even if he or she isnt Mister or Miss Right, it'll be okay because 'you can always get it right next time.'

Cover art for Next Time lyrics by Barenaked Ladies

I dunno - in Wikipedia, it says that this song along with "Shopping" and "Second Best" are centered around the recent troubles in the East. So I've thought about it as the protagonist being George Bush (trial and error), and his disregard for the general opposition of his decisions.

Cover art for Next Time lyrics by Barenaked Ladies

I love the word choices... Just clever and :-)

Cover art for Next Time lyrics by Barenaked Ladies

I believe that this song presents a protagonist whose life has gone off the rails, and is considering the advantages of suicide as a "reset button". He wants to see what the answers were, to see the list of what he could have done better, perhaps to get it right "next time" (especially if you consider their song "It's All Been Done", which tracks the protagonist's attempts to woo the object of his affection through multiple reincarnations).