In the 2001 film A.I., Haley Joel Osment plays the title character, a robot in the form of a boy. He's adopted by a couple who've lost their real child, later is abandoned, and ends up resting underwater in a depopulated future (the film is complex, and I don't remember exactly how it ends). This song is apparently about just such a rejected robot "rusting in a lonely harbor," so it may have been inspired by the SF film, directed by Spielberg (taking over from the deceased Stanley Kubrick) from a Brian Aldiss story.
In the 2001 film A.I., Haley Joel Osment plays the title character, a robot in the form of a boy. He's adopted by a couple who've lost their real child, later is abandoned, and ends up resting underwater in a depopulated future (the film is complex, and I don't remember exactly how it ends). This song is apparently about just such a rejected robot "rusting in a lonely harbor," so it may have been inspired by the SF film, directed by Spielberg (taking over from the deceased Stanley Kubrick) from a Brian Aldiss story.