{"id":191,"date":"2006-03-21T23:52:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-21T23:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/?p=191"},"modified":"2015-11-01T14:26:59","modified_gmt":"2015-11-01T22:26:59","slug":"public-service-advertisement-rubber-room-rock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/2006\/03\/21\/public-service-advertisement-rubber-room-rock\/","title":{"rendered":"Public Service Advertisement [Rubber Room Rock]"},"content":{"rendered":"

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You’d think it goes without saying to not hurl yourself off PA towers at at concerts yet I’ve seen folks do it, just like I saw a couple guys try to drop out of an old fashioned movie theatre balcony into a row of metal framed theatre chairs. Those guys were both carried away in stretchers and one of them already had a sheet all the way over him.<\/p>\n

People do stupid stuff.<\/p>\n

When I was at the Grand Canyon I saw a handful of people sunning themselves on an outcropping that was a good, long, running jump. And the drop below it was, oh, I dunno… 600 feet? To make the jump back to terra firma, they had to get all the way back against the canyon edge of the outcropping, run a few yards across it and leap as far as they could to get across.<\/p>\n

I watched one of them make the jump and my own heart almost jumped into my throat just watching.<\/p>\n

It was so colossally foolhardy.<\/p>\n

Anyhow. All that’s by way of introduction to this song, which posits that too may stage dives will eventually put you in the rubber room, where you’ll be doing…<\/p>\n

today’s acoustic version:<\/span><\/p>\n\n

full version:<\/span><\/p>\nhttp:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/Rubber_Room_Rock_1\/RubberRoomRock.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

RUBBER ROOM ROCK<\/strong><\/p>\n

I used to twist and do the jerk
\nthey don’t let me do that no more
\nnow all I do is do the worm
\nin my straight jacket down on the floor<\/p>\n

but I still rock<\/span>
\nI still rock<\/span>
\nI do the Rubber Room Rock<\/span>
\nOh yea I rock<\/span>
\nI still rock<\/span>
\nI do the Rubber Room Rock<\/span><\/p>\n

Used to slam and bang my head
\nten thousand stage dives or more
\ndove forty feet from a PA tower
\nand went three feet into the floor<\/p>\n

But I still rock
\nyeah I rock . . .<\/p>\n

None of my friends are no fun no more
\nthey just sit in the dayroom and stare at the floor
\nthey come back from the lab with rings round their eyes
\ntherapy’s so expensive — they lobotomize<\/p>\n

But they still rock<\/span>
\noh yeah we rock<\/span>
\nwe do the Rubber Room Rock<\/span>
\nOh sure we rock<\/span>
\nunh hunh we rock<\/span>
\nwe do the Rubber Room Rock<\/span><\/p>\n

(C)1986, TK Major<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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