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Katie Melua - Nine Million Bicycles

Monday, 27. March 2006, 15:27:59

Katie Melua - Nine Million Bicycles.mp3

>> I was driving on N2 highway from Richards Bay to Durban on one Friday afternoon, then for the first time, i heard this song from East Coast Radio, the graceful rhythm immediately caught my heart. have you ever felt this way? sometimes the most beautiful song you heard is the one you unconsciously heard from some radio stations you dont even know and have absolutely no idea about the song's name? well, Nine Million Bicycles is one of these songs to me.

There are nine million bicycles in Beijing
That's a fact,
It's a thing we can't deny
Like the fact that I will love you till I die.

We are twelve billion light years from the edge,
That's a guess,
No-one can ever say it's true
But I know that I will always be with you.

I'm warmed by the fire of your love everyday
So don't call me a liar,
Just believe everything that I say

There are six BILLION people in the world
More or less
and it makes me feel quite small
But you're the one I love the most of all

[INTERLUDE]
We're high on the wire
With the world in our sight
And I'll never tire,
Of the love that you give me every night

There are nine million bicycles in Beijing
That's a Fact,
it's a thing we can't deny
Like the fact that I will love you till I die

And there are nine million bicycles in Beijing
And you know that I will love you till I die!

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Comments

HI Micheal,

Great song I love it so much. have more?

Thank you for sharing

Eve

By zenya, # 3. April 2006, 20:40:24

hi Eve,

thank you for the comments. i will post some more songs later.

all the best.

Michael

By michaeljung, # 4. April 2006, 05:24:31

HI Michael,

I will watch for them. this song was amazing, it sounds like she was here singing just to me .. ahhhh

Eve

By zenya, # 4. April 2006, 20:37:14

hi Eve,

when you really think carefully about the lyric, it actully doesn't make any sense, what "9 million bicycles" have anything to do with "love you till i die"? i think this might be the difference between ordinary people and song writers, they can put two completely inconnected things together to write a song and make you fall for it. what's your opinion?

take care.

Michael

By michaeljung, # 5. April 2006, 15:23:39

HI Michael,

I think the bicycles represent the country and the love is the patriotism until she dies?

Sometimes writer use objects to stand in the place for the real meaning just to make you ponder more deeper like you have

It's a touch of the magic of writing.

If you see my new post I placed a woman in white half naked to represent the change in the persons heart. I didn't place a heart which would have been more visual however, this girl half dressed I felt described losing ones heart more than the photo of a heart.. Also.. half naked could mean half the person she use to be..

It's a play on words from a writers perspective .

I like the way you dig deep.

Yours
Eve

By zenya, # 5. April 2006, 19:01:22

hi Eve,

thank you for explaining this to me, i have learned something from you. is it ok for me to ask you some more questions about English?

cheers

Michael

By michaeljung, # 6. April 2006, 12:10:08

HI Michael,

Yes write to me in Gmail it will be easier and I can concentrate on you better there.

Ask away

Eve

By zenya, # 6. April 2006, 22:14:49

Dorota writes:

beautiful song.. ;]
Thanks

By anonymous user, # 17. April 2006, 11:34:58

Maciek writes:

Rewelacyjna piosenka pełna spokoju i zrozumienia --> Whats means: "Great song peacefull and vary calm" I`m just love it!

Thx a lot.

By anonymous user, # 5. June 2006, 12:28:19

Brendan writes:

This is a love song and has nothing to do with patriotism. She compares her love for her partner to all these things, quite beautiful infact.

By anonymous user, # 20. July 2006, 09:56:11

Lulu writes:

Hi, Michael. Great song, I've been looking for this mp3 for some times now. Thanks for the free link and the lyric.

By anonymous user, # 22. July 2006, 14:40:04

007 writes:

Thank you for sharing

Thank you for sharing

You are a great person, indeed!

Thank you for sharing

Blaze

By anonymous user, # 16. August 2006, 11:15:31

Anonymous writes:

I had just dropped my baby girl off at the airport to fly to China for the 2nd time and I was going through radio stations to find one that caught my mood when I happened on this song! The melody caught my mood and then I listened to the words. I couldn't believe bicycles were mentioned and beijing.

Thanks for posting this so I can hear it again.

By anonymous user, # 26. August 2006, 03:14:11

jambalaya writes:

I googled this song and got your link.
Love it.
Thanks for sharing.

By anonymous user, # 14. September 2006, 03:24:42

rumbeltumbel writes:

Hi folks,
maybe we all misunderstood sth. in the song?
Maybe it's more like the chinese way to tell a lie that another person wants to hear (especially when sb. is in love and asks for some response that the other doesn't want to give). So let's have a closer look at the lyrics:

"There are nine million bicycles in Beijing"
Yes, there are a lot, I was there, I saw them, but really 9 million? Indeed? Not 8.5 million, 11.2 million, 10.33 million?
Who ever counted?
The authorities don't know how many people actually LIVE in Beijing, so how should sb. know how many bicycles...?
At least we have to take into consideration that this statement CAN be true, but the probability that it's wrong is very high...

"That's a fact,"
No, it's not! It's just an expectation, an appraised value, a guess!

"It's a thing we can't deny"
Oh, in this case we HAVE TO deny it!

"Like the fact that I will love you till I die."
... so we must cast doubt on this, too? This is the only working conclusion, I think. So what now?

But by the way:
I like this song, too. It sounds good and the other verses are great to describe her love.
But to take 9 million bicycles in BJ as a fact like the fact that sb. loves sb. until he/she/they die and therefor "Just believe everything that I say" is giddily or - and here's the danger: tricky.

Could it be that she DOES know that she will NOT love him until she dies, but she tells him so because she does know that he likes to hear it?
And for preventing to be called a liar later she shows him by a simile how vague her statement actually is.
So he COULD see it, if he wants, but who wants to find the trap in such a situation?
And later she can tell him: "I told you this!"

You see: My mistake is that I read/listen too carefully all the time

But nice song, indeed.

By anonymous user, # 21. September 2006, 06:17:03

NotAnonymous writes:

I absolutely love this song...

By anonymous user, # 28. September 2006, 06:58:45

Anonymous writes:

Songt text is good,
but the music conposition and the soft,
warm voice takes me for a moment to another, better world ...

By anonymous user, # 10. November 2006, 18:42:37

ewa writes:

cos o katie z Twojego imperium ostatniego sopot festiwalu od dwoch miesiecy spotyka sie z ... inna kobieta i jest nia jaka angielska fotogra(nie pamietam jak sie nazywa)f.. katie na temat tego pytania mowi ze nie moze nic powiedziec ale o tej babce wiadomo ze wiaze sie ttylko w uczuciowe lesbijskie zwiazki.. takze bardzo mi przykro panowie...

By anonymous user, # 16. November 2006, 16:38:51

ynesar writes:

it will be my wedding song...so pure...

By anonymous user, # 3. December 2006, 14:39:25

Robert writes:

Hi Michael,

Trust me, I know what you mean, I felt exactly the same thing when i heard that song for the first time, I get it renewed when I hear closest thing to crazy, Katie has the voice and a face of an angel, I have the most mesmerizing wallpaper of her, It makes you just wanna stare at her all the time. :-)

Good luck with your blog.

By anonymous user, # 22. December 2006, 23:51:38

Dave Carrol writes:

Actually dude... this song is HORRIBLE. I work "shudder" at a smooth jazz radio station and it makes me want to hurt someone on a bike each time i hear it

By anonymous user, # 13. April 2007, 15:42:35

My brother has been dying of cancer and has requested this song to be played at his funeral because he likes it so much.

In the early hours this morning I had a phone call telling me he has passed away..... I always listen to ABC Radio in Perth Australia and have never heard this song played on this station.

When may clock radio went off at 6:50am this morning, after a disturbed night, the song was introduced and played.

It brought a tear to my eye, I understood it as a message from him telling me he was now ok and not to worry.

This song will always be close to my heart.

By Denis G, # 7. May 2007, 02:26:07

george bushes writes:

i love this song to play to my best mate t blair - in fact i love him

Dubya Bush

By anonymous user, # 4. June 2007, 11:27:10

Just Me writes:

I heard this once several months ago and could not get it out of my head, finally googled it and will buy the cd today..it is just one of those songs that makes you wish of how things could be
Just me

By anonymous user, # 23. June 2007, 15:52:00

una writes:

Thank you for sharing

You are a great person, indeed!

una

By anonymous user, # 7. September 2007, 15:09:18

Anonymous writes:

simply put ...Its a song... It doesnt have to make sense.. Lyrics get rewritten over and over again sometimes to fit the flow of the melody and your voice..This song always brings a tear to my eye,it reminds me of my distant wife,its like katy said it to my darling wife for me, thankx katy ...for your beautiful,love song....

By anonymous user, # 1. November 2007, 19:51:06

Anonymous writes:

i played tennis with katie's brother!

By anonymous user, # 19. November 2007, 22:17:30