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Pedaling fast fast fast, the back wheel, rusty, goes squeak squeak squeak. This is the moment, this is the moment and now the trees and the leaves and the sidewalk give way and now there’s blue and red circles and sirens and red and white trucks and the trees and the leaves and the sidewalk whisper they tried to stop me they tried to stop me they did.

Pedaling fast fast fast, don’t see it. Try not to see it, don’t see it but there is no way not to see it, there is no way to go back now.

Pedaling fast fast fast, this is the moment. You thought you could change it, remember how you thought you could change it and you want to laugh out loud you thought that but there is no laughing, there is no laughing now.