Lyrics compiled by Matt Taylor with special help from Scott Traffas
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