Delirious - Bicycle Gasoline

Artist: Delirious

Song: Bicycle Gasoline

Album: Audio Lessonover (2001)

'Audio Lessonover' is the fourth studio album from christian rockers Delirious. 'Audio Lessonover' sees Delirious utilizing their blend of modern rock and christian values to create another album of classic rock songs.

(…) Among the more obscure songs lyrically is another love song, "Bicycle Gasoline"; Smith has, however, explained it: "girls, they don't want flowers all the time, they just need telling that you love them, and vice-versa. A bicycle doesn't need gasoline and she doesn't need all that stuff really. She doesn't need 'things', jewellery or dresses, she just needs love. You know, love man!"

I'm a stranger with the one I love.
She's so beautiful, she's sent from above.
I'm in love with the beauty of my youth.
When I met you I was half a man,
I couldn't walk but together we ran.
I know we can.

She don't need no bicycle gasoline,
She just needs her violets.
She don't need no bicycle gasoline,
She just needs her violets.

I remember when it wasn't this way.
You were complete when you found me astray.
Thank you, you're here today.
In your arms I'm the king of the road,
In your heart I'm forever at home.
I'm alive when I lose myself in you.

Then you come to me sunlight in your hair.
A moment out of time, world with out a care.
And when it's crowding in, you take me far away.
When you're singing la la la la.

The Bicycles - B-B-Bicycles

Artist: The Bicycles

Song:  B-B-Bicycles

Album: The Good The Bad and The Cuddly (2006)

 

The Bicycles are a bubblegum/power pop quintet from Toronto, Ontario and The Good the Bad and the Cuddly is their brilliant debut album: they make delicious pop music.

 

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I found a girl yeah she's so pretty
But my pretty little girl lives in a different city
She's so good yeah she's so sweet
With a pretty little name that starts with a 'B'

B-B-B-B-Bonnie!
B-B-B-B-Bonnie!

She asked me for a record i said you gotta be patient
It's not just a band it's a mode of transportation
And honey when you hear it you're gonna freak
It's the greatest little thing and it starts with a 'B'

B-B-B-Bicycles!
B-B-B-Bicycles!

Bonnie don't you cry if i'm not by your side
One day you'll understand your happiness is your hands

B-B-B-Bonnie!
B-B-B-Bicycles!
You g-g-g-g-g-g-gotta believe
Bonnie and The Bicycles is all i really need
Two little things that start with a 'B'

 

Indie popsters, The Bicycles perform live at the first ever Bunch Rocks - indie for kiddies, a rock concert for kids and their parents featuring cool indie bands! 

 

Robert Palmer - Pride

Artist: Robert Palmer

Song: Pride

Album: Pride (1983)

 

Robert Allen Palmer (19 January 1949 – 26 September 2003), born in Batley, Yorkshire, was an English singer-songwriter. He was known for his soulful voice and the eclectic mix of musical styles on his albums, combining soul, jazz, rock, pop and blues.

Pride is Robert Palmer's eighth solo album, released in 1983. Generally panned by critics, it was not as strong as the studio albums before and after it, Clues and Riptide, respectively.

 

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You want her attention 
Well you'll have to wait 
She's in the gymnasium 
Reducing weight 

In shorts of a leotard 
Despite her age 
The girl's gonna exercise 
Your life away 

Sister don't you jog it all away 
Sister don't you run it all off 
Sister don't you jog it all away 
Sister don't you rough it all up 

What an idea of fun 
To get it on the run 
I don't know why you do 
What has come over you? 

The style in the discotheque 
Is cheap and nice 
Please tell Ms Fonda 
To reduce her price 

Anorexia nervosa mannequin 
All this physicality 
Will wear you thin 

Hey Olivia Newton-John 
What you say? 
Hey Olivia Newton-John 
What you say? 

She used to yield like flesh 
Now it's all muscle 
She used to yield like flesh 
Now it's all muscle 

I don't know why you do 
What has come over you 
What an idea of fun 
To get it on the run 

Rollerskates and vitamins and diet plans 
Academic discipline will ruin your hands 
We used to ride tandem and have lots of fun 
But bicycles for exercise are made for one

 

Kippington Lodge - Lady On A Bicycle

Artist: Kippington Lodge

Song: Lady On A Bicycle

Single: Shy Boy – Lady On A Bicycle (1967)

Album: VV.AA., The Original Psychedelic Album,

or: Brinsley Schwarz, Hen's Teeth

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Kippington Lodge was an English beat-band: from 1965 to 1969 he published five 45” for EMI, there were the future components of the rock band Brinsley Schwarz, author of several discs anticipating the pub rock sound that rages in England in the'70s.

About the single Shy Boy / Lady On A Bicyle : EMI has high hopes of this new group, and with some justification. Relating a charming story-in-song, about the slow and embarrassed getting together of a boy and girl, it's very true to life - and will have a self-indentification to many youngsters. Set to a easy-paced Good-Time rhythm, and pleasantly sung. Produced and arranged by the "Teenage Opera" man, Mark Wirtz. Could happen! Lady On A Bicycle: Another good story line in this lyric. The verses are soloed, with falsetto harmonies in the chorus. The rhythm is a sort of beat-waltz. Fun!

Hen's Teeth is a bit of a godsend for longtime Brinsley Schwarz collectors, gathering all of the group's non-LP singles -- including the first singles released when the band was a Swinging London pop combo called Kippington Lodge -- plus singles the group released under aliases
Who can help me find the lyrics?

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Bicycle Song

Artist: Red Hot Chili Peppers

Song: Bicycle Song

Album: By The Way (2005)

To highlight particular moments of quiet and reflection, you can get around by bike some big rock band, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, for example. Their "Bicycle Song" is published in the album "By The Way" (but it’s a bonus track of the i-tunes version, out in 2005). The song is a nostalgic ballad in the typical style of the californian quartet, where the pleasant refrain emphasizes that " How could I forget to mention the bicycle is a good invention ". We agree!

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I think that only the melody of the song is upbeat, and happy. If you listen to the lyrics I think that the song is about a girl that he truly respects and cares about, but he keeps messing up the way he treats her. “I’d hop this fence to make amends I hope this movie never ends” I think that in the song he cares about the girl but doesn’t know how to communicate he feels and gets frustrated, because the bicycle is a symbol showing it’s a cycle of many similar relationships. That is what I thing, but maybe I am being too pessimistic.

Here she comes in a suit and tie
Shepard’s bush and a leopard’s pie
She marching to the funky beat of
James Brown and his dancing feet
Gonna set your fish on fire
Pistol whipping of desire
So please do not resist your fate
I’ll pick you up yes it’s a date How could I forget to mention the bicycle is a good invention
Sitting there in a silent movie
Beside the only girl who really ever moved me
Happy days but sad I’m facin
Heaven knows that I’m on the case
How could I forget to mention the bicycle?
Somebody told the world
The beauty of your verse
My girl I heard it first
The beauty of your verse
A sticky finger and a wicked taste
Gotta a lot of love and a lyrical case
Be sure to write it in your book
I promise not to look
Wanna smell your sunny face
Funny place but it’s never a waste
I’d hop this fence to make amends
I hope this movie never ends
How could I forget to mention the bicycle is a good invention
Make it up makin you my business
A funny buttercup but I let her forgiveness
Happy days but sad I’m facin
Heaven knows that I’m on the case
How could I forget to mention the bicycle?
Somebody told the world
The beauty of your verse
My girl I heard it first
The beauty of your verse

Ralph McTell - Girl On A Bicycle

Artist: Ralph McTell

Song: Girl On A Bicycle

Album: My Side Of Your Window, 1969

Streets Of London, 1975

Collection; At His Best; etc.

...they are a wonderful blend of sensitive song writing (‘Streets Of London’, ‘Father Forgive Them’, I’ve Thought About It’), tender love songs (‘Nanna’s Song’), ragtime blues guitar (‘Too Tight Drag’, ‘Blind Blake’s Rag’), blues (‘Louise’), psychedelic folk (‘Girl On A Bicycle’, ‘Spiral Staircase’) and innovative guitar playing (‘Rizraklaru’, Willoughby’s Farm’). They represent the core of Ralph’s style. (John Crosby)

Hey little girl on the bicycle, wheels spin like they're riding on air.
Hey little girl on the bicycle, wheels flash like the sun in her hair.
And the wheels go round but the bike has stopped moving
Trees on the river move by her.

Hey little girl on the bicycle, sun blaze in her hair like a flame,
And the river's reflecting her bicycle, and the reeds whisper her name,
And the wheels go round but the bike has stopped moving,
Trees on the river move by her.

Hey little girl on the bicycle, dressed in white, the trees were in green.
Sparkling cycling bicycle that moves through the trees like a dream
And the wheels go round and the trees have stopped moving
Suddenly she is gone.

La, la, la...etc..