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- From: dpeders1@cc.swarthmore.edu (Daniel Pedersen)
- Subject: Luka Bloom's "Acoustic Motorbike (words)
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- Organization: Swarthmore College
- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 03:46:32 GMT
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- Here are the words to the title track of Luka Bloom's "Acoustic Motorbike"
- on Reprise Records, 1992:
-
- The day began with a rainbow in the sand
- As I cycled into Kerry
- Cattle grazing on a steep hillside
- Looked well fed well balanced
- Close to the edge
-
- Chorus:
- Pedal on, Pedal on, Pedal on for miles
- Pedal on
- Pedal on, Pedal on , Pedal on for miles
- Pedal on
-
- I take a break, I close my eyes
- And I'm as happy as the Dolphin
- In a quiet spot talking to myself
- Talking about the rain
- Talking about the rain
- All this rain
-
- Chorus
-
- You see whenever I'm alone
- I tend to brood
- But when I'm out on my bike
- it's a different mood
- I leave my brain at home
- Get up on the saddle
- No hanging around
- I don't diddle-daddle
-
- I work my legs
- I pump my thighs
- Take in the scenery passing me by
- The Kerry Mountains or the Wicklow hills
- The antidote to my emotional ills
- A motion built upon human toil
- Nuclear free needs no oil
- But it makes me hot, makes me hard
- I never thought I could have come this far
- Through miles of mountains, valleys, streams
- This is the right stuff filling my dreams
- So come on, get up on your bike
- Ah go on, get up on your bike
-
- Chorus
-
- --> The song has all sorts of sound effects which I don't remember all that
- well now, but include country sounds (Ithink) and a bicycle bell. The CD
- has a silhouette of someone (Luka?) riding a MTB, and the booklet has a few
- cycling pix. No, he isn't wearing a helmet... I especially like the
- concept of the "acoustic Motorbike" as a term for bicycle. Not that I see
- the bicycle as an unmotorized motorcycle, but I thought that the retronym (a
- la William Safire) was interesting.
-
- Luka Bloom is infamous as the Irishman who does a rap song. Overall, this
- is a good album and I recommend it. It featured heavily on the local
- alternative music NPR station - WXPN, 88.5 FM in the Phila area.
-
- Pdeal on through the New Year.
-
- -->Daniel Pedersen - Keren's Daddy (215)543-8961
- dpeders1@cc.swarthmore.edu pedersen@engin.swarthmore.edu
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