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BIKE Lyrics Artist(Band):Pink Floyd
You can ride it if you like. It's got a basket, a bell that rings, and things to make it look good. I'd give it to you if I could, but I borrowed it. You're the kind of girl that fits in with my world. I'll give you anything, everything, if you want things. I've got a cloak, it's a bit of a joke. There's a tear up the front, it's red and black, I've had it for months. If you think it could look good then I guess it should. You're the kind of girl that fits in with my world I'll give you anything, everything, if you want things I know a mouse and he hasn't got a house. I don't know why I call him Gerald. He's getting rather old but he's a good mouse. You're the kind of girl that fits in with my world. I'll give you anything, everything, if you want things. I've got a clan of gingerbread men. Here a man, there a man, lots of gingerbread men. Take a couple if you wish, they're on the dish. You're the kind of girl that fits in with my world. I'll give you anything, everything, if you want things I know a room of musical tunes. Some rhyme, some ching, most of them are clockwork. Let's go into the other room and make them work. If you find some error in BIKE Lyrics, would you please submit your corrections to me? Thank You. Thanks to Kozzzzzan@hotmail.com for submitting the lyrics. Review about BIKE Bike | Reviewer: Anonymous | 1/14/2008 "i think Pink Floyd did so much better after Syd Barret (Barrett?) left the band. this song is so bizarre, saying it was "bizarre" and leaving it at that would be an understatement. still, i love this song!" So true Ignore the bleating, there's more to this... | Reviewer: Zac | 12/29/2007 First off, blasting Barrett for the stuff that the band did later shows a bit of immaturity. Do you guys have any idea how long that bands been around? If you look at the dates and see when they started (and Barrett was active) and then compare that to other bands and mindsets of THAT time you might begin to realize why you even know about Barrett to start with. I don't hear the Beatles on my fav radio station ever but denying their originality and influence on music would be about the same mentality. I agree that Pink Floyd did better commercially later (duh) but what the hell do you think was a major influence on those later songs? Barrett's mad genius (although difficult to resolve with todays homogenized and force fed perception of 'musical genius') was the gas that got this truck on the road as well as the flashing emergency lights that said "Hey, everybody look at that crazy contraption going by." He enabled the band to go "Wait a minute, we don't have to conform to what the world expects us to to produce as artists. We can kick ass on our own terms and frankly don't give a shit whether or not you condone our methods." And that my friend, is what art is truly about. Justin Timberlake. Hahahahahaha. I'm sure he's a nice guy and all but his success is about enough to validate Tool's plea to flush it all away. World full of sheep baby. I do not mean to take away at all from the other band members, even if I could shoot David in the head putting out that Thorazined, wishy washy crap under the Floyd moniker. And being a guitarist profoundly influenced by him, that's not a statement I make casually. Not to mention the final decision to deprive the world of Floyd's unique and vital message cause they had personal problems. You take a break. You reconcile. You don't end up on your deathbed going "Oh my God, how could I let my pride blind me into such a royal screwup." Look at Picasso's stuff. At first glance his cubism is raw, silly, talentless crap that maybe some sly crook tried to pass off as valuable art. You have to do the research to understand the subtleties that aren't so apparent as well as comparing the works to the pre-history of that medium. Plus if you go back you will find that so many revolutionaries started out doing things 'the right way' with amazing competence. Only later do they reject the rules in order to forge new creative ground. Or maybe (hopefully) you've never had the first hand experience of watching someone succumb to a debilitating mental disease/rebirth. You are left stunned, ashamed at your revulsion, shaking teary fists at the sky over the unfair helplessness of it all. I'm sorry I'm soapboxing here but this subject is too easily and commonly dismissed in my opinion. Anyway, I've bought some solo Barrett stuff which was lauded as edgy genius and honestly, I didn't get it. I assumed it was my fault lol. Not to mention, as Ted Nugent said "There's no reasoning with insanity" so perhaps Barretts' later works don't really deserve to be judged in the same light we are accustomed to using. You know, tere's a huge world full of music that we couldn't begin to relate to on so many levels. Does that make it all crap or just are perhaps we just incapable of understanding the beauty due to social shaping and geographical isolation. Bike is an amazing piece of work that breaks tradition in a timeless fashion. It's not a dance song. It's not asking for a cultural revolution. It offers no answers and presumes no questions. Instead it is a breathtaking glimpse into the waning bright side of the moon. The lyrics come from a pure heart that is spilling all over the floor. He is almost profanely naive in his perspective. He no longer relates to what we think is important, yet he is unabashedly honest in his attempt to find common ground, to exist in our world even while we turn slowly away. He'd just give you the bike if you like it but wait.. he can't cause it's not his! He has a mouse that has become as foreign as the rest of the world around him. But the last vestige of normalcy in his brain recalls a sentimental attachment to that good old pet. He calls him Gerald but he no longer knows why?!?! He's also got a cloak which he suspects may be silly in it's state of disrepair but honestly he can no longer tell. His standards of the importance of things has become so askew from us 'sane' folks that he's basically asking "Should I wear this? I can't tell anymore..." Barrett finishes by getting back down to musical business, in his mind anyway. The gingerbread men line rolls off the tongue like a child's nursery rhyme. And the last line is like, "Hey, I can no longer relate even to the basic tools of our profession. But I know what their purpose is. Let's get back to work boys!" You also have the obligatory chorus. Do you really think that this girl (or anyone) fits into his world anymore? He is putting up a good face, a solid chin even while being unable to hide his slide into dementia. Do you want things? The entire piece is a statement on 'things'. Things forgotten, things terrifyingly rediscovered. If you can overcome this deeply emotional void and pretend that Syd is still here with all the rest of us, he'll happily give you his things! See, he doesn't need them anymore. They have lost their value, their proper meanings. What he wants now is something that he can never again have. Oh wait, you can't have that bike, he borrowed it you know so that wouldn't be proper would it? Aha! The faintest sliver of sanity shines through. Just look at it. It's got things on it. That basket, that bell, and 'things' ...surely these are things that make it desirable, right? Surely you'd like to take it for a spin? It's just all so confusing from his perspective. It used to be simple. You can have anything, everything if you can just bridge that impossible distance. I guess empathy is just a dying concept. You can all go back to grazing now. LoL Syd Barrett | Reviewer: Khaos | 12/12/2007 IF syd barrett would have stayed in pink floyd, i would be willing to guess that there music would be as bad or worse then this. This song is complete garbage and im glad Syd Barrett left. Pink Floyd post Syd Barrett is awesome Dark Side of the Moon Wish You Were Here The Wall all great examples of why pink floyd is the best band in the world but then if you look back at this early pink floyd with Syd as the front man, there basically shit. I'm sorry floyd but when you had syd barrett you were terrible, w/o him your the best. ^.- Very Bizarre Song | Reviewer: Anonymous | 9/6/2007 i think Pink Floyd did so much better after Syd Barret (Barrett?) left the band. this song is so bizarre, saying it was "bizarre" and leaving it at that would be an understatement. still, i love this song! 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