I think much like another song “Anti-Matter” (that's also on the same album as this song), this one is also is inspired by a horrifying van crash the band experienced on Nov 3, 2022. This, much like the other track, sounds like it's an extension what they shared while huddled in the wreckage, as they helped frontman Garrett Russell stem the bleeding from his head wound while he was under the temporary effects of a concussion. The track speaks of where the mind goes at the most desperate & desolate of times, when it just about slips away to all but disconnect itself, and the aftermath.
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 'til 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 every day
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
We're high on a 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 that fact that I will love you 'til I die
And there are nine-million bicycles in Beijing
And you know that I will love you 'til I die
That's a fact
It's a thing we can't deny
Like the fact that I will love you 'til 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 every day
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
We're high on a 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 that fact that I will love you 'til I die
And there are nine-million bicycles in Beijing
And you know that I will love you 'til I die
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Nine Million Bicycles Lyrics as written by Mike Batt
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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