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Cooper Helps with Bent Wheel

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The Bent Wheel at Beals — Sergeant Omar, Real City Heroes (Boston Division) Sergeant Cooper's very first episode isn't the bank robbery. It's a routine patrol: pull over a speeder, help a car with a bent wheel, and only then catch the bad guy. A five-year-old on a black-and-blue scooter took that literally. Beals Park in North Weymouth has three zones — a beginner area, an intermediate area, and an expert bowl across 18,000 square feet. This song lives in the beginner area, because that's where the bent wheels are. A warm blues-rock lesson in the oldest rule Cooper ever taught: the trick can wait, the friend comes first. To protect and to serve.

Lyrics

Intro - spoken, soft

Bismillah.

Dawn to dusk they said. So we've got all day.

Verse 1

There's a park down in Weymouth with three different lanes

A beginner and a middle and a bowl for the brave

And a boy on a scooter black and blue and white

Rolls in every morning like he's starting a shift

Verse 2

There's a kid on the ground where the little ramps start

Got a scrape on his elbow and a hole in his heart

And Omar had a run and Omar had a line

And Omar put it down and said hey you alright

Chorus

That's the bent wheel that's the bent wheel

Cooper stopped for the bent wheel first

Alhamdulillah for the ones who will kneel

The trick can wait the friend comes first

Verse 3

And a big kid came speeding through the beginner side

And Omar didn't yell and Omar didn't chide

He said hey there's small ones could you take the far lane

And the big kid said my bad and he never came back the same

Guitar solo - warm, melodic, unhurried

Chorus

That's the bent wheel that's the bent wheel

Cooper stopped for the bent wheel first

Alhamdulillah for the ones who will kneel

The trick can wait the friend comes first

Bridge - spoken, warm, over soft slide guitar

Omar. Courage isn't landing it.

Courage is trying it in front of people who might see you fall.

And the bravest thing at that park all day

was you stopping your run for somebody's elbow.

Outro - soft

Three lanes at Beals. Beginner, middle, bowl.

And a kid who works the beginner lane on purpose.

The trick can wait.

The friend comes first.

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