Clean Plastic Baby - Floater

Oh!

What Joy!

A child of our own…

Oooh, such a handsome child

With a fusebox smile

I think he’s trying to speak now

But he’s got nothing to say

He must have nothing to say

Nothing, you say?

He’s all mine

I cannot hate you.

Why should I bother?

I never felt anything anyway

Dark in the bedroom.

Why did you bother?

You never saw each other, you should you see me now?

The child can’t do anything right

Oh, why can’t he be like us?

Tell me why?

Clean the mind of this plastic baby

You set these eyes deep in this face

I just repeat what you said

You set this flesh upon these bones

I just repeat what you said

I’m through with patience.

I’ll wait no longer

You never waited for me anyway

This thing inside me, it’s growing stronger

It’s going to tear.

Tear until it sees the light of day

You set these eyes deep in this face

Now I just repeat what you said

You take my flesh and try it on

You’ll just repeat what I said

Mother, you made me repeat what you said

I just repeat what you say

The story you told, still rings in my head

The young men came down, down to the river

To wash their hands of the mud

The young men came down, after the stoning

To wash their hands of the blood

See all the young men come down, down to the water

To wash off the mud.

To wash off the blood

You just repeat what you said

You mean what you say

Young women came down, down to the river

To wash their legs of the blood

Young women came down, after the birthing

To wash their legs of the blood

I saw the women go down, down to the water

To wash their legs of the blood

The blood… the blood

Repeat what you said

You never mean what you say

I just repeat what you said

Keep still child

I’m washing your insides away

That’s a good boy

You know we love you