Clean Plastic Baby
Floater Lyrics

Oh! What Joy! A child of our own...
We are thrilled to have a child of our own!

Oooh, such a handsome child.
He is a good-looking baby.

With a fusebox smile.
His smile makes us happy.

I think he's trying to speak now.
Our baby is attempting to make sounds.

But he's got nothing to say.
Our baby does not yet have the ability to communicate verbally.

He must have nothing to say.
It is normal for babies to not be able to talk.

Nothing, you say? He's all mine.
Even though he is not talking, he is our baby and we love him.

I cannot hate you. Why should I bother?
I don't have any feelings about you.

I never felt anything anyway.
I have not had any emotional attachment to you.

Dark in the bedroom. Why did you bother?
Being in the bedroom with you doesn't make a difference.

You never saw each other, you should you see me now?
We never had a strong relationship, so why bother starting one now?

The child can't do anything right.
Our baby is still learning and we have unrealistic expectations of him.

Oh, why can't he be like us?
We wish our baby was more like adults and less like a baby.

Tell me why?
Please explain why our baby is not more like us.

Clean the mind of this plastic baby.
We want to erase our baby's ability to think and have a mind of his own.

You set these eyes deep in this face.
You, mother, created this baby and gave him his physical features.

I just repeat what you said.
I am following your lead and doing what you tell me to do.

You set this flesh upon these bones.
It was your doing, mother, to create this baby's body.

I'm through with patience. I'll wait no longer.
I have run out of patience and refuse to wait any longer.

You never waited for me anyway.
You, mother, have not been patient with me either.

This thing inside me, it's growing stronger.
My feelings and emotions are getting more intense.

It's going to tear. Tear until it sees the light of day.
My emotions are so strong they will not be contained and will come out regardless of the consequences.

Now I just repeat what you said.
I am still following your lead and doing what you tell me to do.

You take my flesh and try it on.
Mother, you have used me to experiment with your own ideas and beliefs.

You'll just repeat what I said.
I know you will just do what I tell you to do.

Mother, you made me repeat what you said.
You, mother, made me act upon your ideas and not my own.

The story you told, still rings in my head.
Your stories and teachings still haunt me today.

The young men came down, down to the river, to wash their hands of the mud.
This is a story about young men trying to remove themselves from wrongdoing and absolve themselves of sin.

The young men came down, after the stoning, to wash their hands of the blood.
This is a story about young men trying to rid themselves of guilt after committing a crime.

See all the young men come down, down to the water, To wash off the mud. To wash off the blood.
This is a story of redemption and cleansing for the young men.

You just repeat what you said.
You are still following orders and doing what you were told to do.

You mean what you say.
You are sincere and committed to doing what you have said.

Young women came down, down to the river, to wash their legs of the blood.
Women are trying to cleanse themselves of the trauma and pain of childbirth.

Young women came down, after the birthing, to wash their legs of the blood.
Women are trying to cleanse themselves of the physical and emotional pain of childbirth.

I saw the women go down, down to the water, to wash their legs of the blood.
The singer has experienced the pain and suffering of childbirth through these women.

The blood...the blood.
This is a story about the physical and emotional pain of childbirth.

Keep still child. I'm washing your insides away. That's a good boy.
The singer is doing a procedure to cleanse the baby of negativity and emotions.

You know we love you.
We love our baby, even if it may not seem that way.