Bouncing Around The Room

Album: Lawn Boy (1990)
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Songfacts®:

  • "Bouncing Around the Room" is the ninth and final song on Lawn Boy, Phish's second official studio album (The Man Who Stepped into Yesterday was never officially released).

    It's a trippy song about meeting a dream woman underwater and waking up "bouncing around the room." Surreal oceanic imagery fills the song.
  • A live favorite, Phish has performed "Bouncing Around The Room" well over 400 times. Still, the song has been one of the more divisive among Phish fans. According to Phish.net, the song started as a fan favorite but then earned detractors among the new fans that poured in during the mid-'90s. These new fans wanted only the "jam songs" and derided pro-"Bouncing" fans. This trend eventually changed, and "Bouncing" is comfortably back on the shelf as a Phish classic.
  • Phish frontman Trey Anastasio wrote the music for the song and lyricist Tom Marshall wrote the words.
  • A tradition at Phish shows is for fans to bounce around when the band plays this song.

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  • Moosehead from Scno fan of phish, but love this song. grammar errors and all!!!
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