Bouncing Round The Room Bass Tab

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Bouncing Around The Room »

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Drum intro               (0:28)           Play this 4x
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Verse

     (0:41)                            "She whispered words.."
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Chorus

"..And I awoke, faintly bouncin round the room"
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Taken from The BassMasta -- http://www.bassmasta.net

Source: http://www.bassmasta.net/p/phish/110128.html

Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques


No Picture PYRO Average	#1 by PYRO is in the navy seals at Mar 9, 1970 at 6:52 AM EST
	aww this song is so cute . thats all i can say. much love

No Picture tucker Wanna Be	#2 by tucker at Apr 24, 1972 at 11:25 AM EST
	not about drugs it is about having good dreams and wishing they were real

No Picture James Average	#3 by James Kukulka at Apr 14, 1973 at 4:59 PM EST
	This song is another great one. I think its a guy who's tripping and just thinks stuff out. He gets the feeling of bouncing around the room cause he is tripped up.

No Picture What?Me Worry? Wanna Be	#4 by What?Me Worry? at Dec 28, 1973 at 1:51 AM EST
	After more thought i think it could be the square room is a live venue, and the round room is a cd. I dont know if he is refering to himself, or putting shit on another person or band that cant play live, but a lot of his songs (if not all) can be linked somehow to this topic Maybe a recording is a more personal experience? "The people that souround me are waiting out there In a round room they can't find me anywhere " It just has to be that. "Put me in a square room and I won't know what to say I want a round room at the end of the day" "Right angle rooms drive me craizer each day Put me in a box I know I'm never going to play " Could be chess?

No Picture vintage Average	#5 by vintage rocker at Apr 2, 1980 at 11:26 AM EST
	This is a great song! It was a shame how so many die hard phish heads reacted with distaste for it when phish would play it at a show once it got radio play of the "a live one" version. The lyrics are some of Tom Marshal's finest, at par with the magnificance of the "Rift" album lyrics. It is indeed about a crush of sorts, for some dream induced fantasy girl. We have all had dreams of the sort where we win the lottery, or fly, or perform some other fantastic feat. It may all seem so lucid and real though we wake and find it was only a dream and our heart is still racing with the excitement of it all. Longing for the feeling of it once again without the dissapointing abrupt awakening. In the case of this song, the dream is of a woman, who effects a haunting desire in the dreamer. The effect of the mythological Sirens of the Sea; Beautiful voices who are said to sing to lost sailors, enchanting them into the water and ultimately their drowning in the depths of the blue. The dreamer gazes into her eyes and seems to dream within a dream, holding the hand of his Siren. When she whispers some secret enchantment, the dreamer awakes to find he was but dreaming. And faintly bouncing round our dreamer's thoughts (room..) is the echo of whatever she might have said. Whatever the beautiful utterance may have been it leaves that longing feeling for that lucid grasp of her hand and leads our dreamer to contemplate her time and again, sinking into the depths of his imaginative ocean and coral mazes of his heart and mind. The Lyrics are truely masterful. The composition of the song is so amazing too! As it breaks into the layered and echoing vocals and music, bringing us progressively deeper into the maze until we take that one final breath and its over.

No Picture sebastian Average	#6 by sebastian daalmeijer at Jul 19, 1980 at 10:16 AM EST
	wet dream

No Picture Mike Wanna Be	#7 by Mike Manning at Nov 21, 1980 at 3:04 PM EST
	hehe, sounds good, but i like ur name buddha :), but i dont like green day :(

No Picture sp00ky_child Average	#8 by sp00ky_child at May 14, 1983 at 8:31 PM EST
	Fanko311, oh nm....

No Picture Zach Average	#9 by Zach at Nov 6, 1983 at 2:11 AM EST
	All of Phish's songs with water in the lyrics, are about LSD. It's their metaphor for the experience. "We breathe deep, in a steam dream, and plunge below the water line, down, down, down, down..." SOAM

No Picture Ryan Wanna Be	#10 by Ryan . at Apr 25, 1985 at 3:37 PM EST
	amazing.

No Picture anthony Wanna Be	#11 by anthony barter at Sep 5, 1987 at 5:13 AM EST
	On LSD you see things through a crystal haze for days after the trip.

No Picture Dave Average	#12 by Dave at Aug 7, 1988 at 12:28 AM EST
	Possibly the best Phish song ever

No Picture jano Average	#13 by jano manzali at Jun 25, 1990 at 11:26 PM EST
	Have you ever awoken abrutly from a dream, and had the last words spoken in your dream echo in your mind?

No Picture Matty Average	#14 by Matty G at Mar 11, 1991 at 4:36 AM EST
	Me neither, not so much. Buddha of Suburbia is actually a little-known David Bowie song from a few years back. Ironic that Green Day has Jesus of Suburbia, eh?

No Picture graeme Lead Player	#15 by graeme cook at Nov 9, 1992 at 6:39 PM EST
	I'm pretty sure this song refers to the method in which they recorded "Round Room", which was in a circle. It's about how their creativity comes out best when they are with each other in a circle rather than trapped in some "square room" trying in vain to write a song.

No Picture José Wanna Be	#16 by José Frazão at May 26, 1993 at 4:12 PM EST
	this is song has created like an inner movement in me sometimes...i HIGHly recommnend..smoking in a small area...possibly a car with this song blasting and lights and you will feel like ur bouncing...and traveling even tho ur not. just zone into it. the song maybe about drugs or maybe daydreaming...both make it intersting and a great song

No Picture josh Lead Player	#17 by josh brock at Jul 11, 1993 at 10:46 PM EST
	this song is awsome and anyone that doesnt like it........why are you reading it? im already got my tickets to the phish show in charlotte, nc this summer, its gonna be insane

No Picture Cocoabean Average	#18 by Cocoabean at May 17, 1995 at 4:42 PM EST
	this song is about early morning realizations of the fact that you are comfortable and excited about your new love and thoughts and sounds seem to resonate like dreams as they leave your conscsiencness and reality simultainiously enters into what is left of the dreamstate your were in...mixing and bouncing untill you are fully awake and remimber you have to get to work.

No Picture Cody Wanna Be	#19 by Cody Mann at Oct 25, 1995 at 8:03 AM EST
	It seems like a guy daydreaming about his crush. Fack -- I know about that! =o)

No Picture Chris Average	#20 by Chris Essery at Sep 2, 1998 at 6:33 PM EST
	this must be my favourite song by Phish. i agree with the daydream idea, but at a loss for what "bouncing round the room" could literally mean. maybe a creative way to say his mind went a-wanderin'?

No Picture scott Wanna Be	#21 by scott smith at Aug 8, 2000 at 8:04 AM EST
	OK, so this is totally a stab in the dark, but I've always had this theory about "Round Room." Could the symbolic round room represent being on drugs...? Don't attack, just listen, first line: "My room is round when I lay down/ When I wake up it's square" When he goes to bed, he's on drugs from that night, but not the next morning, so his room is square again. Then it gets to be sad... when he repeats over and over at the end, "I want a round room just to be with you." He only feels as if he is with her when he's high (or otherwise intoxicated). There could be countless OTHER meanings, I'm just saying that this one makes some sense. Now, contradict! I want some other opinions.

No Picture Basstard Professional	#22 by Basstard at Aug 18, 2000 at 10:02 PM EST
	This song is about amphetamines. Thats why he's "bouncing round the room" and why "I awoke"

No Picture brandt Average	#23 by brandt dinsmore at Oct 26, 2000 at 5:21 PM EST
	This song is amazing. I would tend to agree with the ide that its about a dream of sorts. Additionally, Fanko311 can fuck off, just because Phish is notorious for their drug use doesnt mean that all of their songs are about drugs.

No Picture Jonathan Average	#24 by Jonathan Hummel at Jan 2, 2001 at 4:05 PM EST
	great bass good song

No Picture brad Wanna Be	#25 by brad at Jun 2, 2002 at 11:02 PM EST
	uh, Fanko311, those are the lyrics from the song Lawn Boy. On February 28, 2003, I had the best experience of my life: seeing Phish for the first time ever. I had been waiting pretty much since I was around 8 years old (my older brother got me into them) to actually witness the spectacle of a live Phish show, which was said to be of legendary proportions. Believe me, it lived up to standards. Anyway, the night finally came, and for some reason, all day, Bouncin Around the Room had been on loop in my head. I kept hoping that they would play this song, which is probably one of my favorites. So, I was stoned (obviously), and had been drinking a ton of water. As much as I didn't want to stop dancing, I really, really, really had to pee. So I planned my escape to go as smoothly as possible, but one minor detail didn't enter my convoluted mind: the line for the girl's bathroom was incredibly long. I waited on line for about 5 minutes, finally got into the bathroom, and through the wall, heard a familiar bass line. "Oh shit," I thought "they can't possibly be playing that." But, they were. So I got out of the bathroom, freshened up and everything, and ran as fast as I could back to my seat. I got into the stadium just as soon as they were playing the final chords. It was such a weird experience, I'll never get over that. -Rebecca-

No Picture Guitar Man Lead Player	#26 by Guitar Man at Mar 1, 2006 at 7:17 AM EST
	First, a casset tape is square. A cd or record is round. the information of cd's and records are in a spiral, but not quite a set of stairs. Maybe mike has a fetish for good quality audio? or warm sounds? he might really really dislike tapes (like my dad)

No Picture Bass Rhythm Player	#27 by Bass Master Kid at Jun 10, 2007 at 10:36 PM EST
	awesome song