Ben Folds - Rock This Bitch RIT

Ben Folds at the Gordon Field House at RIT on May 5, 2007. RIT has about a 10% deaf/hard of hearing student body, so there are interpreters at almost every event.

Lyrics!

R. I. T.
R. I. T.
I went to a coffee house
Right next to the music conservatory
And they gave me some food
And they didn't charge me
And they gave me some coffee
And they didn't charge me
And when I was broke, I needed it more
And now that I'm rich, they give me coffee
But I appreciate it
Because they make very good coffee
And I think that it is the coolest coffee shop
Because everyone's not so fucking (sour/dour) like they are at other coffee shops
Well God damn

Rock this bitch RIT
Rock this bitch RIT
We're gonna rock this bitch here at the field house at RIT
I wanna see the sign language person say shit
SHIT SHIT SHIT SHIT (x a lot)

(spoken) Everybody sign it! SHIT SHIT SHIT SHIT...
That's all right, gonna learn something new in sign language. Show them again. Show em one more time. I've never been to a rock concert where everyone just signed. In fact, do me a favor (to the drummer), act like you're playing but make no sound at all. Everyone is gonna chant "shit" in sign language. And if there's anyone here who is hard of hearing they'll really appreciate this because we'll all be having the same experience. Shhh... absolute silence...
Awesome, thank you guys.

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• coffee
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• sign
• language

[daddyg33]

Nicely done, posalootly. Mo and I just watched it from the hotel in Raleigh-Durham, N.C. Ben is from Winston-Salem, N.C., by the way. Safe to say that he has thoroughly disposed of his redneck past. I especially liked the coffee shop references early on in this clip.

[posalootly]

He was singing about the coffee shop by the Eastman School of Music.

[nturner2176]

This was sooooo cool. Thank you for getting this excellent capture of it! The sound quality is pretty kick ass! I was there, and I told my mom about the experience because my brother is deaf and she cried because she was laughing so hard. I loved when the drummer was spinning the sticks!

Also, I see you posted the lyrics. Awesome job that must have been tedious. Though I think he said "dour", not "sour"

[posalootly]

I really wanted to subtitle it for everyone, but it just wasn't working right. :/

I'm not sure about that sour/dour line. Dour could definitely work, I'll change that. Thanks for the comment!

[Eequality72521]

yes it does.

[pwsewell1]

wow, that is another amazing ben folds moments, not sure how i stumbled upon this, but im glad i did. nice work posalootly

[weegeo]

Sounds like Gershwin at the start

[rocktzar]

wow awsome

[Dragonrocks]

Hey actually made this into a song, not really the first part, but he uses the lyrics on a song off the new album. It was amazing.

[katrinaVOZ]

this was ben folds show #13 for me :) thanks

[bajosordos]

MUY BUENO PONELE MAS GARRA

[ColdandComposed]

Hey, you might want to check my just uploaded video of Ben's called "Free Coffee" this song is actually going to probably be on Ben's new album, or at least so he said last night. I don't have a whole lot of it, but, the whole they didn't charge me bit, is in this "new" song. On the album.