What Is Rock?! - Turbonegro

What is Rock?

Rock is the area between the balls and the anus of a dog or of a man

What is Rock?

Rock is the possibility of choking on your own vomit in the back of a rapist van

What is Rock?

Denim clad satanists making love in the sewers of Birmingham during Maggie

Thatchers prime

What is Rock?

Rock is meeting the grim reaper in a sports arena stampede at the tender age of

nine

We keep on trucking why oh why?

Spreading like cancer my oh my

What is Rock?

Backwards messages to boys and girls, to bring machine guns to the schools

What is Rock?

No I’m not talking about Canadian producer of 5th Metallica Pop Rock you fool

What is Rock?

Oh ACDC, Cleveland, Ohio, well basically it’s harder, heaver and slightly more

blues based than pop.

What is Rock?

Historians keep nagging about Fun House but me?

I think Kill City is where it’s

at.

After decades of Indie and House

Six cats from Oslo killed the mouse

We saved rock n roll

All on our own, and forced the toll on rock and roll

We saved rock n roll

With our bare hands, we saved that god damned rock n roll…

So skål!

But it ain’t for free

We got a crew that are our employees

They need to be catered, got their own nice bus

They got worthy lives thanks to us

And this wait at the airport to pick up my bags

Feeling so tired, I could lay down and die

Runes walking on stage and plays the wrong chord

Roadies laughing so hard they’re wiping their eyes

Many of them skilled musicians, multiracial and tattooed

But we’re the main attraction, goddamn it!

Those guys ain’t got a clue!

After the show sometimes we Friday nights, together in the dark back lounge

Pat each others shoulders, try to groove on a feeling, digging the old school

sounds

We ride and ride into the night and the temperature’s getting hot

But somehow the chemistry’s ain’t that right cause we’re doing blow and they

smoke pot!

We saved rock n roll

All on our own, and forced the toll on rock n roll

We saved rock n roll

With our bare hands, we saved that goddamned rock n roll

Where do we go from here, what can we do?

We can go left, we can go right

Or you can go down on me

What are we doing here?

What’s important to life?

My generation?

My wife?

Wow what is rock?

I don’t care!

Where’s the cash?

Where’s the cash?

The money the money the money money money