I wrote a song that is inspired by the day everything changed.
That day, I was cycling—it would be the last time.
I was on the bike path, heading home from the studio.
Suddenly, I saw two car headlights coming toward me.
Seeing that the car wasn’t slowing down, I moved aside and avoided it.
I thought the car had accidentally ended up on the bike path and kept pedaling.
Shortly after, it happened again. Another car was coming toward me, speeding up.
It was going fast, and even though my bike was visible, the car came so close it nearly grazed me.
I almost fell, so I stopped.
More car headlights followed, and many more after that.
That’s when I realized something had changed and that everything I had learned up to that point
no longer made sense.
Now, the bike path belonged to the cars.
I, and the other cyclists around me, got off our bikes. And we stood still, watching.
This song is called: One Day I Will Be Back on My Bike.

One day I will be back on my bike
One day the bike lane will be free from cars again
One day we will be back to our bikes
One day we will be there cycling again
One day we will be back on our bikes