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Artist: Turbonegro
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What is rock?
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What is rock?
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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 Burmingham 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 machines guns to the schools
What is rock?
No im not talking about a canadian producer and 5th Metallica Bob Rock you fool
What is rock?
Oh ACDC, Cleveland, Ohio, Well basically its harder and heaver and slightly more blues based than pop.
What is rock?
Historians keep nagging about Funhouse but me? i think Kill City's where its at.
After decades of indie and house
6 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 skull!
But it aint for free, we gotta group 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
feelin' so tired, i could lay down and die
runes walkin on stage and plays the wrong chord
roadies laughin so hard they're wiping their eyes
many of them skilled musicians, multiracial and tatooed
but we're the main attraction goddammit those guys ain't got a clue
After the show sometime on friday nights, together in the talkback 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 temperatures getting hot
but somehow the chemistry's aint that right coz we're doin' 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 doin here? whats important in life?
my generation? my wife? wow what is rock? I don't care!
Wheres the cash, Wheres the cash?
The money The money the moneymoneymoney
The money the money the moneymoneymoney x 14
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