“Floating Boy” is the furthest extent of Fugazi’s slow, quiet, musing songs. The nearly six-minute dreamlike track features a rhythmic groove matched to Guy Picciotto’s crooning vocals, and seems, strangely enough, to describe a simple day at the beach.
To see all right [?]
All right
To see all right [?]
Fa fa fa fa
Fa fa fa fa
Fa fa fa fa
All right
To see all right [?]
To see all right [?]
Fa fa fa fa
Fa fa fa fa
Fa fa fa fa
All right
The sun came up
The sun came out
The sun did us in
The sun came out and tore us up
It ripped the shit out of our behinds
And we drove home on towels
Off the heat of the seats
With sand in our teeth
All right, all right
Float on the ocean
Float on the sea
Float on the ocean
(Float, float, the sun [?])
Lie on the ocean
Float on the ocean
It's all right
Down on the sea
Lie on the ocean
Float on the ocean
(Floater) [?]
(Gone) [?]
Gone, yeah [?]
... The breeze [?]
... Clouds [?]
Lie on the ocean
Lie on the sea
Lie on the ocean
Water and wave under
So what?
Down
(Down, down, down)
Lie on the ocean
(Down on the ocean)
Down on the sea
(Down on the sea)
Lie on the ocean
(Lie on the ocean)
Down on the sea
(Down on the sea)
Not brave but
We're down for the count
All right
Floating Boy was written by Guy Picciotto & Ian MacKaye & Joe Lally & Brendan Canty.
Floating Boy was produced by Fugazi.