Broken Bicycles - Gavin Bryars, Tom Waits, Kathleen Brennan

Broken bicycles, old busted chains

With rusted handle bars, out in the rain

Somebody must have an orphanage for

All these things that nobody wants any more

September’s reminding July

It’s time to be saying goodbye

Summer is gone, but our love will remain

Like old broken bicycles out in the rain

Broken bicycles, don’t tell my folks

There’s all those playing cards pinned to the spokes

Laid down like skeletons out on the lawn

The wheels won’t turn when the other has gone

The seasons can turn on a dime

Somehow I forget every time

For all the things that you’ve given me will always stay

Broken, but I’ll never throw them away