Bicycle As Insurance Plan by Max Levine Ensemble
Bicycle As Insurance Plan lyrics
She said �calm down, it�s just a bicycle,�
Well I said, �it�s not as if I�d expect you to know,
I mean, it�s not as if I think you�d understand,
This is my insurance plan.�
And we�d been lost and called cops on the shadows,
And thought it was a way to feel safe in the dark,
But it wasn�t.
And the thought that our right to feel free was
contingent,
On the places we walked wasn�t fair to begin with,
And I�d been walking back and forth for my whole life,
And thought of distance as an indicator,
Of the things we can�t reach for our limitations,
Though speed was suggested, the alleged way of,
Crossing that space to your destination,
They said �you go out, start the investigation.�
So lost again in the rain on fourth street,
There was a chain, not of events (those blurred)
But of a broken bike in an unknown town,
That whispered �it�s time you learned about
exploration.�
And it went Fairview, Maple, Waldron, Gist,
And separated only by the shadows of the summer,
Downtown melted and I stepped out past midnight,
Into a world of idle roads and streetlights,
And I thought �this is what it�s like to feel in
control.�
And I remember, feeling freer in the cold outside,
Through wind, down streets on a dark night ride,
Thinking �distance only is as it�s defined.�
And all this talk of taking matters into our own hands,
Was embodied by the passing pavement under,
And embodied in a way we could understand.
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