- Cultish Creative
- Posts
- Under The Bridge
Under The Bridge
Yes, the Chili Peppers song, and yes, there are heavy and emotional bridge metaphors discussed in this post
Saturday Morning Media: Under The Bridge
What do you do when you know you’re surrounded by people and yet completely cut off from everyone at the same time?
You don’t cross any bridges.
More realistically, you might end up under one.
I don’t care if you love or hate the song.
It tapped into something.
Which isn’t a heroin reference.
It might be a heroine reference though, if a city can be one,
Under the bridge downtown
Is where I drew some blood
Under the bridge downtown
Forgot about my love
Under the bridge downtown
I could not get enough
Under the bridge downtown
I gave my life away
But you should listen to him tell the story. Because it gets pretty dark for him. Before he gets out from under the bridge and gets back to making music with his friend.
Get out from under the bridges.
Get back on top of them.
I’m thinking of this a lot. It starts right around the 48-minute mark in Funky Monks.
h/t Rob Harvilla