“The Next Life” is an emotional piano ballad that closes Suede’s debut album. It was written as a tribute to Brett Anderson’s late mother, who died while Anderson was at university.
It contrasts significantly with both the energetic pop songs and atmospheric guitar ballads on the album through its...
[Verse]
See you in your next life
When we'll fly away for good
Stars in our own car
We can drive away from here
[Chorus]
Far away
So far away
Down to Worthing
And work there
Far away
We'll go far away
And flog ice creams
'Til the company's on its knees
[Outro]
See you in your next life
When we'll fly away for good
The Next Life was written by Brett Anderson & Bernard Butler.
The Next Life was produced by Ed Buller.
Suede released The Next Life on Mon Mar 29 1993.
Brett Anderson, on the death of his mother and the song it inspired:
It was an incredibly influential period of my life when I met Justine [Frischmann] and just opened up so many vistas in my life. A year-or-so later my mum died, and these incredible, kind-of clashing emotions [were] happening in m...