Bike (song)

"Bike"
Song by Pink Floyd from the album The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
Published	Magdalene Music/Essex Music
Released	5 August 1967
Recorded	21 May 1967
Genre	Psychedelic rock, musique concrète
Length	3:21
Label	EMI Columbia (UK) Tower (US)
Writer(s)	Syd Barrett
Producer(s)	Norman Smith
Echoes: The Best of Pink Floyd track listing 26 tracks Disc one "Astronomy Domine" "See Emily Play" "The Happiest Days of Our Lives" "Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)" "Echoes" "Hey You" "Marooned" "The Great Gig in the Sky" "Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun" "Money" "Keep Talking" "Sheep" "Sorrow" Disc two "Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts I–VII)" "Time" "The Fletcher Memorial Home" "Comfortably Numb" "When the Tigers Broke Free" "One of These Days" "Us and Them" "Learning to Fly" "Arnold Layne" "Wish You Were Here" "Jugband Blues" "High Hopes" "Bike" An Introduction to Syd Barrett track listing 18 tracks "Arnold Layne" "See Emily Play" "Apples and Oranges" "Matilda Mother" "Chapter 24" "Bike" "Terrapin" "Love You" "Dark Globe" "Here I Go" "Octopus" "She Took a Long Cool Look" "If It's In You" "Baby Lemonade" "Dominoes" "Gigolo Aunt" "Effervescing Elephant" "Bob Dylan Blues"

26 tracks

Disc one "Astronomy Domine" "See Emily Play" "The Happiest Days of Our Lives" "Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)" "Echoes" "Hey You" "Marooned" "The Great Gig in the Sky" "Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun" "Money" "Keep Talking" "Sheep" "Sorrow" Disc two "Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts I–VII)" "Time" "The Fletcher Memorial Home" "Comfortably Numb" "When the Tigers Broke Free" "One of These Days" "Us and Them" "Learning to Fly" "Arnold Layne" "Wish You Were Here" "Jugband Blues" "High Hopes" "Bike"

18 tracks
"Arnold Layne" "See Emily Play" "Apples and Oranges" "Matilda Mother" "Chapter 24" "Bike" "Terrapin" "Love You" "Dark Globe" "Here I Go" "Octopus" "She Took a Long Cool Look" "If It's In You" "Baby Lemonade" "Dominoes" "Gigolo Aunt" "Effervescing Elephant" "Bob Dylan Blues"

"Bike" is a song by British rock band Pink Floyd, which is the final track featured on their 1967 debut album, The Piper at the Gates of Dawn.

In the song, Syd Barrett's lyrical subject shows a girl his bike (which he borrowed); a cloak; a homeless, aging mouse that he calls Gerald; and a clan of gingerbread men, because she "fits in with [his] world." With each repetition of the chorus, a sudden percussive noise is heard similar to the firing of two gunshots. Towards the end of the song, he offers to take her into a "room of musical tunes". The final verse is followed by an instrumental section that is a piece of musique concrète: a noisy collage of oscillators, clocks, gongs, bells, a violin, and other sounds edited with tape techniques, apparently the "other room" spoken of in the song and giving the impression of the turning gears of a bicycle. The ending of the song fades out with a tape loop of the band members laughing reversed and played at double speed. The song was written for Barrett's then girlfriend, Jenny Spires. She is also mentioned as "Jennifer Gentle" in the song "Lucifer Sam", which is also on The Piper at the Gates of Dawn.

The song also appears on two Pink Floyd compilation albums: Relics (1971) and Echoes: The Best of Pink Floyd (2001); it serves as the closing track on both albums.

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