Album: Soundtracks (other tracks)

This World Is Something New To Me


written by Mark Mothersbaugh

Lisa Loeb: Where am I?
B Real: How did I get here?
Patti Smith: Today is very different than yesterday.
Lou Rawls: So this is the world?
Laurie Anderson: I miss my old womb.
Gordon Gano: The wallpaper here just ain't the same.
Fred Schneider: This word is something strange.
Loeb: I'm wet,
Phife: I'm cold,
Lenny Kravitz: (waggles diaper) I need a change,
All: (tosses blankets in air) This world is something new to me.
Phife: (on one monitor) Oh, my head! What is this? I can't take it!
Dawn Robinson: (on an adjacent monitor) Me either!
(Robotic camera zooms in on next baby)
Beck: I'm hungry,
Rawls: I'm tired,
Jakob Dylan: (pounds crib floor to make pacifier bounce) I'm irritated.
Rawls: But I love the extra leg room.
Smith: (Points to her bellybutton) Man! They cut my cord!
Iggy Pop: (Looks in his diaper to see, uh, something Jewish boys get, usually at birth) consider yourself lucky!
Dylan: This world is way too big.
Pop: (baby points at Chuckie) And populated by fuzzy pigs.
All: This world is something new to me.
Schneider: This world is such a gas. (passes gas)
Kate Pierson Cindy Wilson: P.U., where's your class?
All: This world is something new to me.
(Two baby carriers collide with each other as the Rugrats push them around)
Beck: (shouts) Quiet! can't a guy get some shuteye?
Smith: (shouts) It's so noisy in here.
Pop: (shouts) I can barely hear myself suck.
(baby grabs bottle from Chuckie)
Dylan: The food here tastes pretty good,
Phife: My compliments to the chef.
Robinson: And you gotta holler to get fed.
Rawls: But I could get used to that.
(babies cry; Chuckie falls on floor onto a light switch)
Loeb: This world is way too bright,
Beck: Can't somebody turn down the light?
Beck: (as another baby; looks inside diaper) So that's what that thing looks like.
Dylan: All things here are meant for play,
(throws pacifier; robotic camera follows it)
Schneider: It's gonna be a real cool day.
All: This world is something new to me.
(Newborns pee in the air to make a fountain, while unidentified babies sing: "da-de-da-da-da", etc.; one of the female babies say "Real cool", while another one says "Look!")
All: (as rainbow forms) This world is something new to me.
(robotic camera retracts and monitor shuts off as number ends)