Lyrics Flaming Lips

Flaming Lips

The Big Ol' Bug Is the New Baby Now

"We have three dogs that love to chew stuff up so we're

always gettin' them some toys and stuffed animals and

stuff so they can destroy them. And usually whatever we

get is shred to pieces within a couple of days. And one

day I noticed that this stuffed animal that we had

gotten, they had had it for about a week, had remained

relatively unharmed, a little bit dirty, but it really

didn't have any damage. So I was kind of watchin' them

for the next couple of days, and I noticed that for

some weird reason, this little stuffed animal seemed

like they all liked it for some weird reason, it was

special to them, not only did they not chew it up, they

sort of made it seem like it was their baby. They

treated as though it was their own baby, so I thought,

"this is weird." How strange this is. Of all the toys

and things that we get for them, for some weird reason,

this one, it wasn't really any different from the rest,

this one is picked to be special. So there you go.. So

some time passed and one day I noticed that this box of

"big plastic insects," that I had been keeping on a

shelf in the bathroom, had some how fallen down and

unfortunately it looked as though the dogs had already

chewed up most of the stuff in it, the big giant

spiders, ants, and cockroaches and stuff that were in

it. And as I walked around the house picking up the

shredded pieces of these plastic insects I came across

the... baby... you know, their stuffed animal baby! And

there it was just torn to shreds, like everything else

- all the other stuff, finally this one was torn to

shreds. So later on I came across one of the giant

grasshoppers that for some reason hadn't been chewed up

at all, not even as much as a small tooth mark. So I

watch.. and it occurs to me.. that for some reason

their affections have changed.. and I can plainly see

that, instead of the stuffed animal, the big ol' bug is

the new baby... now."

The big ol' bug is the new baby now

The big ol' bug is the new baby now