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Bicycles were introduced in the 19th century and now number over one billion worldwide, twice as many as automobiles. They are the principal means of transportation in many regions. They also provide a popular form of recreation, and have been adapted for such uses as children's toys, adult fitness, military and police applications, courier services and bicycle racing.
The basic shape and configuration of a typical upright bicycle has changed little since the first chain-driven model was developed around 1885. However, many details have been improved, especially since the advent of modern materials and computer-aided design. These have allowed for a proliferation of specialized designs for particular types of cycling.
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Life is like falling down seven times... and getting back up eight times...
[Intro:]
Eh, Gyal
Mi nuh wah nuh borin fuck
Mi nuh wah nuh borin wine
Mi nuh wah nuh borin wine
Move yuh clothes an fuck pon di line,
But mi nuh wah nuh borin grind
Nah, mi nuh wah nuh borin wine
Me don't wah no borin wine... babyyyy
[Verse 1:]
Yuh pussy haffi physically fit
Bruk di cocky like dry macka stik
Enuff gyal flop weh yuh fit
Nuff ah dem pop dung
Wen time mi tell dem dis
Mi wah yuh fi peddle an wheel
Pon dat big fat cocky
Ah guh longer den ah candle
An, hold on
Pon yuh two breast dem like di handle
[Chorus:]
Gyal,
Ride pon di cocky like ah bicycle
Ride pon di cocky like ah bicycle
Yuh love di lollipop
Yuh love di icycle
Mi dun tell yuh mi nuh wah nuh borin gyal
Ride pon di cocky like ah bicycle
Ride pon di cocky like ah bicycle
From mi love di weh yuh tounge
Ah tickle my nipple
Mi love wen yuh guh dung an hold ah
Vybzcycle
[Verse 2:]
Yuh kno how fi mek mi sweat
Balance pon yuh head
Like yuh wah bruk yuh neck (hmmmmm)
Ah some hard fuck yuh get
Dat 12 inch cocky a go mark yuh fi death (hmmm)
Mek sure seh yuh wah weh yuh get
Wen yuh done yuh feel it
With every walk weh yuh mek (ahhhh)
Yuh wah bullet like ciggarette
Yes, wen yuh done dis
Havin get it offa yuh breathe
Sex education classes
Nuff ah dem get dismiss
My school a nuh funny business
Nuff ah dem shock wen teacha
Guh tell dem dis
Mi wah fi squeeze yuh two breast
Like di breaks dem pon di BMX or di 10 speed
An, den yuh sidung inna satellite race
Ah run dung an yuh tek lead
[Chorus:]
Gyal,
Ride pon di cocky like ah bicycle
Ride pon di cocky like ah bicycle
Yuh love di lollipop
Yuh love di icycle
Mi dun tell yuh mi nuh wah nuh borin gyal
Ride pon di cocky like ah bicycle
Ride pon di cocky like ah bicycle
From mi love di weh yuh tounge
Ah tickle my nipple
Mi love wen yuh guh dung an hold ah
I did not recognize you.
You're playing with your face
Through your eyes I do despise you
There's not a person that I hate
but you.
When I could reach you from a distance
When I could sail upon the horizon
I left behind all those who mattered
The memories gone, they're foggy to me
You'll see
I will not argue with you
there's only blackness in your heart
in the buildings that you tore down with your mind
No on told me you had feelings
They kept it secret and away from me
What would I give to have them silent
Their mouths all taken from them
When I could reach you from a distance
When I could sail upon the horizon
I left behind all those who mattered
They're all not gone, just blurry memory
You'll see
I will not argue with you
There's only blackness in your heart
in the buildings that you tore down
Late at night
I get around
Pedal 'round this
Lonesome town
I can€™t find my bicycle how did I get home
It hurts to hold my head to the phone
Where€™d all my money go can you tell me did I lose it
Lose it all don€™t you know
Man I feel so used up
But if I slowed down would it all catch up
Yeah at least I see the sunrise
Oh it eats up my mind
Yeah just like her at my side
And by the way what€™s going on tonight
Think I gotta go to work Jesus Christ I€™m late
Oh man oh man I gotta go
Thanks for all your help last night
Don€™t you worry everything will be alright
Yeah at least I see the sunrise
Oh it eats up my mind
Yeah just like her at my side
And by the way what€™s going on tonight
I could tell you about my life but
I€™m not the kind to cry
I could shed this ugly skin but
It hurts too much to try
Yeah at least I see the sunrise
Oh it eats up my mind
Yeah just like her at my side
And by the way what€™s going on tonight
I have a wife, and together we live, in a very small room
Yesterday she lost, her car broke down, and now I ride a bicycle
You say, I told you so, you were much too young to get married.
But I say, You're way too old, and when did you stop living anyway?
As I ride my bike, with my safety helmet on, and white tennis shoes,
they stare at me but I see through new eyes, or maybe you just don't remember
This place that I'm supposed to be, is not the chair in front of a desk in front of a mirror
Can't you see that it's not here or there or anywhere
But in speaking distance with God,and where can you go that's too far?
I wanna build you a bicycle faster than life So you can keep up
with your dreams Bring you a basket of beautiful laughter All of
the love that you need
Humbly, honestly I only want to be One of your favorite things But
I want you to believe in me
Cause I Never wanted To give it all 'til now Cause I Always waiting
For you to come around
At last My love is found
Say, I like the cursive sound of the words And all the letters you
leave You're like a classic, restless romantic Straight from the
cinema screen
Back when our father's Grandfathers had daughters Far before all
the machine Way back when lovers still believed
Cause I Never wanted To give it all 'til now Cause I Always waiting
For you to come around
At last My love is found
I never wanted To give it all 'til now Cause I Always waiting For you
to come around
At last My love is found
At last My love is found
I wanna build you a bicycle faster than life So you can keep up
You came out of a dream I'm on my bicycle
Over the bridge just where I thought of you
Near by the castle, it's raining tonight
But it doesn't matter
I should have waited
I should be anywhere but here
Oh I hate you now
Why can't you decide
You say it's all just a dream
I'm not someone
Who can you make you feel like the rainbow
On the ocean
On my bicycle over the bridge
I should have waited
I should be anywhere but here
Oh I hate you now
Why can't you decide
Oh I hate you now
Why can't you decide
windy road
Down to the church house
Singing hymns
"he is all that is smooth and unpainted"
"are you smooth are you painted today?"
no, she's opened her blouse
to the mail man and his letters
send him off first class
he's a paper doll
but who'll sing the lullabies
who'll bake the dreams
in her apple pie?
Bicycle
she's our friend
you take her home now
tuck her in close her eyes
turn on the sugarplums
I'll sing the lullaby
I'll bake the prayers
in her book of light
don't ask for me
I'll send her my love through a rosary
still stringing beads
and counting prayers and wishes
until she sees me
I can't find my bicycle how did I get home
It hurts to hold my head to the phone
Where'd all my money go can you tell me did I lose it
Lose it all don't you know
Man I feel so used up
But if I slowed down would it all catch up
Yeah at least I see the sunrise
Oh it eats up my mind
Yeah just like her at my side
And by the way what's going on tonight
Think I gotta go to work Jesus Christ I'm late
Oh man oh man I gotta go
Thanks for all your help last night
Don't you worry everything will be alright
Yeah at least I see the sunrise
Oh it eats up my mind
Yeah just like her at my side
And by the way what's going on tonight
I could tell you about my life but
I'm not the kind to cry
I could she'd this ugly skin but
It hurts too much to try
Yeah at least I see the sunrise
Oh it eats up my mind
Yeah just like her at my side
Oh pedaling is hard, move fast as I can go,
The basket of my bicycle is hangin' low,
It's filled with things that I am bringing to your house.
You said some strange things on the phone,
I wanna know what they're about.
When I get there you are done.
Your things in boxes on your lawn
And all the books you ever read, are stacked upon your steps
Instead of in your room and all your shoes
Are strung out on your neighbor's fence.
Among all this I find a note addressed to me, it says:
"I'm leaving this place; not by choice it's my fate.
I don't wanna hurt you, not tryin' to desert you
Some people just weren't cut out for this race."
Get back on my bicycle, I'm moving slow
Never thought I'd realize the type of things I've come to know
Some people just weren't cut out for this type of life
To end up like their fathers with a house, a dog, two kids, a wife.
The pressures of society are bound to get to you.
I guess I'll have to let him go.
Oh I guess I'll cut him loose.
I love being drunk on my bicycle
It makes me feel just like I can fly
The pretty girls are like birds
And the cars are like clouds
And I'm feeling as blue as the sky
Yes I love being drunk on my bicycle
Well there's no place better to be
Free wheeling will have you believing
That you might really be free
So come on and ride with me
on the path of least resistance
Let's bury our heads in the sand
And then let's hope
that tomorrow our problems will be over
Well don't that just feel like a plan
I love being drunk on my bicycle
If you see me best leave me alone
It's a solitary activity
And I need my space to roam
Yes I love being drunk on my bicycle
While I am I might sing out a tune
And one day I might play it for all the others
Who are drunk on their bicycles too
So come on and ride with me
on the path of least resistance
Let's bury our heads in the sand
And then let's hope
that tomorrow our problems will be over
I'm in love with you little sister
we ride home in the night
from under our feet the rain paints the street with the
stars.
passing cars with light trails behind them
we could follow them on
giving this town is wearing me down lets take off
There was a girl
With no conviction
Of how to live much less
To die
And so she dated all the boys
Who would take her
A taste of destruction
And joy
Oh such joy
Prechorus:
They drank wine and danced
And pressed their bodies together
Cos tomorrow is just
Another tomorrow
The candlelight
Burns evil
The candle light
Burns hope
Chorus:
She says I never meant to
Take it that far
And took the keys out of the car
Under the stars And they
Were lost
A long way from home
And so she took another ride
From another Beautiful stranger
There was a boy
who never listened
on how to live much less to die
and so he fell inside a dream of his making
a taste of destruction and joy
oh such joy
Prechorus, Chorus etc
Bridge
Maybe she just needs an answer
Maybe he just needs to be asked
But love is a crowded sinking ship
No one wants to get out of
Chorus
Chorus:
Bi, bicycles rode so smooth,
Under the clouds, over the skies the stars
All I be get...
Bi, bicycles rode so smooth,
Under the clouds, over the skies the stars
All I be get...
Can I start with a goodbye
You are there with...
This is so...
Combinations that will...
Chorus:
Bi, bicycles rode so smooth,
Under the clouds, over the skies the stars
All I be get...
Bi, bicycles rode so smooth,
Under the clouds, over the skies the stars
All I be get...
... what I saw and what was before my eyes
... that will take you...
Chorus:
Bi, bicycles rode so smooth,
Under the clouds, over the skies the stars
All I be get...
Bi, bicycles rode so smooth,
Under the clouds, over the skies the stars
All I be get...
La, la, la, la, la
La, la, la, la, la
Chorus:
Bi, bicycles rode so smooth,
Under the clouds, over the skies the stars
All I be get...
Bi, bicycles rode so smooth,
Under the clouds, over the skies the stars
Bicycle
I can't remember your face
But I remember your bicycle
How it took my breath away
How it took my breath away
When we went racing down our favorite street
I tried to catch up with your bicycle
But you took my breath away
But you took my breath away
I can't remember many things
But I remember your bicycle
How it took my breath away
Love is a bicycle with no front wheelLove is faking it
until you remember how it feels
You'll never know how close I came
To saying those words that way again
Love is a dirty dream and you are its muse
Love is me screaming as you reach for your shoes
You'll never know how close I came
To saying those words that way again
Less of something's always more than more of nothing
Invitations to coffee pose the questions I avoid
I want to say yes this time just to prove that I could
You'll never know how close I came
To saying those words that way again
Less of something's always more than more of nothing
don't wanna fall on my head
don't wanna botch up my chain
the air is so thick
you know, it's edible
first time i felt out of place
took me a while to embrace
the whole notion of balance and gravity
my chin wasn't up where was i headin'?
i'm closin' in on a fire hydrant
disaster's waitin' ain't goin' far
i get up, i get up, don't give up
i reassemble it all
i found out
you'll do it if you wanna do it
i found out
you'll do it if you wanna do it
i found out
you'll do it if you wanna do it
i found out
you'll do it if you wanna do it
can't get you out of my head
yeah, you're my ball and my chain
i bet it all with my soul and then credit it
first time i fell on my face
tried at it day after day
i keep tryin' and tryin', ya ya ya ya ya ya
i know that it's workincause it makes me tired
nothin' comes easy efforts multiply
a jolt to encourage, baby light my fire
i'll take it if you cater
now stop, yeah, wait it's comin'
i found out
you'll do it if you wanna do it
i found out
you'll do it if you wanna do it
i found out
you'll do it if you wanna do it
i found out
you'll do it if you wanna do it
i found out