Songs about biking aren’t exactly a genre unto themselves, but there are some cycling lyrics worth hearing. If you’re writing a song with a bike theme, keep the following tips in mind:
1. Use bicycle lingo, but only when it is appropriate.
If your audience is a bunch of uber-fit cyclists, you can probably get away with saying “went for a cycle.” Non-cyclists, however, will see that as a joke about someone who wears lycra and has a high level of fitness. And that’s not good.
It takes time to learn what balance feels like on a bicycle, and it also takes time to find that kind of balance in songwriting. There will be wobbles and falls, and you might scrape your knee a bit – but if you keep getting back on the bike, you’ll eventually reach your destination.
Over a Frank Dukes acoustic guitar production, Jay Z and Tyler the Creator croon and rap poetic lines about bikes on this track from Ocean’s 2013 album Wolf. Ocean himself has a long history of working with the Odd Future rapper, having contributed to both his 2011 album No Church in the Wild and the following year’s Watch The Throne. He also appeared on two tracks from Hova’s Magna Carta Holy Grail two years later. Hova and Tyler reference biking a number of times in their verses, including comparing life to the wheels of a bicycle. They also name-drop the 12 O’Clock Boys, a Baltimore dirt bike crew.
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