Bike (song)

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"Bike"

Song by Pink Floyd
from the album The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
Released	August 5, 1967
Recorded	May 21, 1967
Genre	Psychedelic rock, Musique concrète
Length	3:21
Label	Columbia/EMI (UK) Capitol (US)
Writer(s)	Syd Barrett
Producer(s)	Norman Smith
The Piper at the Gates of Dawn track listing
The Scarecrow (10)	"Bike" (11)

"Bike" is a song by British progressive rock band Pink Floyd, and is featured on their debut album, The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (1967). It also appears on two Floyd compilation albums: Relics (1971) and Echoes: The Best of Pink Floyd (2001). On all three albums, it is the final track.

In the song, Syd Barrett's lyrical subject shows a girl his bike (which he borrowed), a cloak, a homeless mouse that he calls Gerald, and a clan of gingerbread men - because she "fits in with my world". 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 can be referred to as a piece of musique concrete: 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. The ending of the song fades out with the sound of maniacal laughing, a double speed recording of voices saying "Ha Ha".

The song was written for Barrett's then girlfriend, Jenny Spires. She is also mentioned in the song "Lucifer Sam", which is also on The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn.