BIKE Lyrics - Pink Floyd

Writer: SYD BARRETT
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I googled and came across this website | Reviewer: IamaWeasel | 10/3/11

I cannot imagine what low-life troglodyte's are posting here: it's The Scarecrow that's truly the epitome of Barrettesque Floyd. My second bought album after Roxy's eponymous start was A Nice Pair and it was the clickety-clackety start to the Scarecrow that got me hooked. Pre-Barrett or post-Barrett; it's a continuum. Get over it testicularly challenged geeks. I'll see your bike and trump it with this Scarecrow!!

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You don't need to be English | Reviewer: Anonymous | 2/23/11

If you think you need to be English to get this, you're an idiot. If you think Roger Waters ruined Pink Floyd, you're an idiot. This is a great song, end of story. If you even try to argue an opinion, then you're an idiot. Why would you even compare Pink Floyd to Smashing Pumpkins. In my opinion, they're a crap '90s band. So therefore, I think you're an idiot. Why would you compare Waters and Barrett? Two fucking geniuses! Why don't you go start a war?

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Bike and Syd | Reviewer: Anonymous | 12/23/10

In my opinion you don't need to be English to "understand" Syd's lyrics. He was a genius and Pink Floyd wouldn't be so great without is mark. I actually think that TPAGD is the only and pure Pink Floyd Masterpiece... Yeah, yeah, Yhe Wall is great and The Other Side of The Moon too, sorry, nothing compared to Syd's early work in the band.
Everything is misterious and "new", i don't care it was made under the influence of drugs, everybody can take drugs, but not everybody can produce a "The Piper At the Gate of Dawn", you still need talent and geniuses.
Talking about the "Bike" it's a nice and childish way to convince a girl that you like her.. So it makes it simple and at the same time bizarre cause it's a grown up that is convincing the "girl" oferring her everything she wants. SYD = GENIUS

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I love Syd Barrett | Reviewer: Anonymous | 10/25/10

Floyd is great, yes, but the quality of their work went steadily downwards after DSOTM. Syd was pretty much only with the band for one album (he had one song on Saucerful of Secrets), but he is my favorite member of the band, and immediately after he left their music kinda went to shit (listen to Ummagumma, you'll see what I mean). When the band realized they couldn't capture the essence of Syd without Syd, they found their own sound (I'd say this happened during Atom Heart Mother or maybe Meddle), which I love and respect, but not as much as I love Syd's sound. In my opinion, the peak of this period was DSOTM as I said before, and then afterwards things began to change. The Wall might as well have been a Roger Waters solo album. Not that I don't love it, but it's not the Pink Floyd sound, and it definitely isn't Syd Barrett. After Roger left, David Gilmour and Nick Mason just shat all over the Pink Floyd name with their final two albums (A Momentary Lapse of Reason and The Division Bell). These two (and maybe Ummagumma) are the only Floyd albums I consider to be unlistenable.

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Seriously now? | Reviewer: Aimee | 2/8/10

Syd Barrett was the brains behind the band. Had it not been for him there probably wouldn't have been a Pink Floyd at all.
This song is far from shit, it was one of the first songs they ever did. I happen to think it's adorable, because if you actually think about it, he wrote is for a girl. He wrote it for Jenny Spires, who was his girlfriend at the time.
When Pink Floyd got a new singer, sure their work got better. But it still had the same principles behind it, it didn't change that much if you really think about it. The sound changed a little bit, and the ideas behind the songs got deeper.
But, Syd is the one who made the band. He may have been a drug addict, he may have been crazy, but listen to the post Syd Barrett Pink Floyd. It's the same kind of thing. Lots of drugs, lots of thoughts, and lots of craziness.

To end this rant; I find this song quite amazing. Because it's so simple compared to all other Pink Floyd songs and it's really a good change. And seeing how this was off their first album when they made it big in America, you can understand that they were trying to establish their own unique sound and experimenting with different lyrics and music.

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British? | Reviewer: Andrea | 1/11/10

I dont know if you necessarily have to be british to really appreciate this... I'm an american and i love syd's stuff. I think people could probably analyze syd till the "sheep" come home and they couldn't possibly do any better than zac did but syd kinda eludes analyzation. Just sit back and listen, everyone.

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Syd supporter | Reviewer: Anonymous | 1/5/10

you are worthless filth if you think Syd was horrible. he set the band in the proper direction. his influence upon all the other members is the reason why Pink Floyd is so prosperous now. without Barret, you can forget about half of Dark Side of the Moon which is mostly about mental stability (AKA SYD'S DECLINE). and Wish You Were Here wouldn't even exist! and you can't even argue The Wall would exist without Syd being present in the bands early stages. Even if Pink Floyd had fallen apart because of Syd, the impact that Piper at the Gates of Dawn made on music as a whole is more than noteworthy. matter of fact, The Beatles Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band was recorded next door to Pink Floyd while they were recording Piper at the Gates of Dawn, point being, Paul McCartney cites Syd as one of his influences as does Jimi Hendrix, Pete Townshend, Marc Bolan, David Bowie, Jimmy Page, Brian Eno, and The Dammed. least to mention his contribution to the pioneering of distortion guitar and psychedelic music as a whole.

you obviously lack music appreciation if you cannot see how important this man was, especially in the short time that he was able to contribute to the music industry.

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Bike!!! <3 | Reviewer: Anonymous | 12/7/09

this is my favorite floyd song so ya i find some of the previous post quite offensive...ya Bike is pretty "bizarre," by conventional standards, but that's why we all listen to Rock right? if not we'd be into cute bubble gum pop. I'm sorry, I just really despise ppl who disrespect, or better yet misunderstand the genius of Pink Floyd

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Rubbish | Reviewer: T.J. | 11/12/09

You're all rubbish! Gits. Syd Barrett is what you make him. So's his music. I make it great. ZAC makes it great, I'm deducing. Other's make it an incomparible masterpiece. You could make it great, too. This is art, people!

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Sorry but you need to be English | Reviewer: Lonesome Twin | 7/14/09

... to put this song in context. Despite ZACs massively long deconstruction it's plain that he's American and thus just won't get it.

The song is pure English whimsy, a long tradition personified by Edward Lear and Spike Millgan, tho contradictively done best by Dr Zeuss.

It's mere audio doodling, where you think of a line and then expand on it. The lines scan so well that I'll bet the 'ride it if you like' came first. Everything else was just bolted on linearly, and because Syd was who he was, it became a classic.

No I don't know what the geese were all about, but it used to scare the wits out of my daughter, for whom this was her first nursery rhyme.

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