Bicycle Girl

What does it mean?
You’re born, you live, you die
Is that all there is?
God might be dead
And the angst is doing me in
Hey, welcome to me
An existential mensch who thinks too much
Then I see her out the
Corner of my jaded eye

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Bicycle Girl
Bicycle Girl
Girl on a Schwinn
Ponytail in the wind
Cosmos kept in her cart
Bicycle Girl
Bicycle Girl
Pleated plaid skirt
And a frilly flounce shirt
Peddle your way to my heart

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What could it mean?
Were you coasting by to save me
From myself?
A two-wheelin’ angel
To distract me from my despair
Well, maybe it’s this
When the finitude of life is certain
Fear and trembling or love
The choice is mine, and mine all alone
I and Thou
Or on my own

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Bicycle Girl
Bicycle Girl
She’s a girl on a Schwinn
Ponytail in the wind
Cosmos kept in her cart
Bicycle Girl
Bicycle Girl
With a pleated plaid skirt
And a frilly flounce shirt
Peddle your way to my heart

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Kierkegaard, Jean-Paul Sartre
Karl Jaspers, Heidegger
Kafka, Nietzsche, Rollo May
These cats will make my hair turn gray

Girl on a Schwinn
Ponytail in the wind
She flashes a grin
And my head starts to spin
Pleated plaid skirt
And a frilly flounce shirt
A wink and a flirt
And my head starts to hurt
A string of faux pearls
A flapper kiss curl
And ribbons on her fingers to remind her she’s…

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Bicycle Girl
Bicycle Girl
She’s in and of the world
Riding from the herd
She’s nice little
Life simple
Bicycle, Bicycle Girl
Bicycle Girl
Bicycle Girl

Lyrics and Music © 2023 Chris Sunfield. Administered by Dasein Music Publishing.

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Chris Sunfield: Guitars, Bass, MIDI Programming, Lead & Backing Vocals
Emma Whale: Backing Vocals
Will Crann: Backing Vocals