Laut Wikipedia ist Filk ist eine Musikrichtung, die sich formal an Folk anlehnt – daher der Name – und inhaltlich Science Fiction- und Fantasy-Themen verwendet. Zur Filk-Szene gehört Ookla The Mok. Hier ist ihr Song "Tandem Bike":

"She came into my room at two o’clock in the afternoon
And she said that she had a desperate need
To talk about our relationship and wasn’t it time that we called it quits
But she cried when I said that I kind of agreed

I didn’t know what to say
I began to wish I was dead
Crazy me crazy me
I thought that she meant what she said

She said she wanted to hear me say that I’d always want to be near her
I asked, "Well why isn’t that what you said?"
She turned and cried some more and when she left she slammed the door
Then I sighed with relief and sat down on my bed

My jaw nearly hit the floor
I couldn’t believe my eyes
Twenty minutes later when I opened the door
And she was standing right outside

I said, "Hey what the hell are you still doing here?" and she said, "Well
I thought you were gonna come after me"
I rolled my eyes and told her, "You should really be acting older
You’re thirty years old and I’m just twenty-three"

    Then she rode away
    On a bicycle built for two
    All alone

To make her leave was beyond my power so we hugged for half an hour
And I know for sure because I checked
My cowboy secret space detective super hero radioactive
Message decoding watch behind her neck

Two hours later she finally left
And this time she was really gone
I sat done immediately
And I began to write this song

I was out on New Year’s Eve and as I was getting ready to leave
I saw her approach from across the bar
So I pretended I was plastered she found out and she called me a bastard
But she followed me home anyway in her car

We argued right outside my door
It was unbelievably cold
My toes were getting kind of numb
So I told her that I had to go

Now I live in fear every time I see her coming near
I try to hide but I can’t get away
I’m sick of lies and compromises averting eyes and wearing disguises
She stalks me twenty-four hours a day"

Ookla The Mok Fanpage
Ookla The Mok: Tandem Bike

The Desperate Bicycles war eine Band in der frühen Punkzeit in England. Die 1978 gegründete Gruppe bestand aus Dave Papworth (drums), Nicky Stephens (keyboards), Roger Stephens (Bass) und Danny Wigley (vocals). Als sich die Gruppe 1981 trennte, hatte sie einige 7“-EPs und eine LP herausgebracht. Das Stück "(I Make The) Product" stammt aus der EP New Cross.
The Desperate Bicycles: (I Make The) Product
Homepage der Desperate Bicycles

Chris McKay & The Critical Darlings ist eine Rockband in Georgia, USA. Ihr Song Wide Bicycle wurde als Demo im Herbst 2004 aufgenommen und ist noch nicht auf einer Platte erschienen.

Ein sehr schönes Video eines Jungen, der – statt zur Schule zu gehen –  durch Amerika cruist. Die Musik ist von Bob Sinclair.

Die Letzenbergstare haben "Mein Fahrrad" der Prinzen als a capella Version noch einmal eingespielt.
Homepage Letzenbergstare
Mein Fahrrad

"Broken bicycles,
Old busted chains,
With busted 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 good-bye.

Summer is gone,
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"

aus der 1982 erschienenen LP "One from the Heart"
Tom Waits: Broken Bicycles