Red Hot Chili Peppers: Under the Bridge Meaning

Song Released: 1991

Under the Bridge Lyrics

Sometimes I feel
Like I dont have a partner
Sometimes I feel
Like my only friend
Is the city I live in
The city of angels
Lonely as I am
Together we cry

I drive on her streets
cause shes my companion
I walk through her hills
cause...

1. anonymous

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   Dec 21st 2006 !⃝

   I think most of the rhcp songs are related to drug addiction, and you can always link them with drugs, but I always try to look further. The song is about 'his place'. Whenever he feels troubled or confused ('I don't ever wanna feel like I did that day') he goes to his beloved City of Angels ('take me to the place I love, take me all the way') where he thinks all trouble will be solved. Very Simple
2. anonymous

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   Dec 16th 2006 !⃝

   This song is about his addiction to heroin. When he says "She" it is refering to heroin and when he talks about the city it is about his mental state. One of my friends told me it was about drugs so I listened to it again and that's what I think
3. anonymous

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   Nov 27th 2006 !⃝

   it's true John's mum Gail and her friends sang at the end of under the bridge (wikipedia if you don't believe me...)
4. Jen

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   Nov 25th 2006 !⃝

   Anthony Kiedis, lead singer of this band, struggled with ehroin addiction (he's been sober since the late Nineties.) He wrote this song about his heroin addiction. The lyrics came from journal entries.
5. anonymous

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   Oct 29th 2006 !⃝

   It about Anthony when he was wiht his girlfriend Carmen...A friend told him that there was a place under the bridge in la where the cops never went and he spent most of his time laying under that bridge on dirty mattresses taking drugs then one day he realized he had a girlfriend and I was time to get back to reality and on the way home on the bus he felt he had a connection wiht the hills of la

   This interpretation has been marked as poor. view anyway
6. suburban13

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   Aug 19th 2006 !⃝

   I think that in this song Anthony was thinking about Slovak and how much he misses him. And how alone he felt after his death. Hence " I don't ever wanna feel like I did that day". And he felt alone... And he felt like the only thing he had was l.A. At the end of the song he gets high under the bridge in an attempt to forget about all the pain he was going through.
7. anonymous

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   Jul 21st 2006 !⃝

   Did you know that it was John f's mother singing all the churchy stuff at the end? She used to be a music eacher and antony asked her to lend them her voice for the song.
8. anonymous

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   Jul 20th 2006 !⃝

   I have read anthonys autobiography and this song is about him staying clean for months then stuffing it up when he went under the bridge and got high. He wrote this song while being high and then showed it to his producer the next day. They put a beat with it and came out with this song
9. anonymous

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   Jul 10th 2006 !⃝

   Under the bridge is about not wanting to go back to a place in your life when everything was low and things were going wrong.It's on the greatest hits dvd.
10. anonymous

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    Jul 2nd 2006 !⃝

    Under the Bridge is a place where he used herion but mainly the song is about your freedom from pain his just happened to be shooting up herion under the bridge downtown.
11. jungleman

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    Jul 1st 2006 !⃝

    This song is about Anthony Kiedis fighting his drug addiction and staying clean.
12. anonymous

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    Jun 21st 2006 !⃝

    Great song and beat. Under the Bridge isn't just about drugs, though. It's also about how Anthony, while taking drugs, and maybe other times as well, sometimes feels he doesn't have anybody to turn to but Los Angeles (the City of Angels), the city that is extremely near and dear to him. And when he needs to let his feeling out and cry a little bit, he finds relief in knowing even though it may seem he has no one to be with, the city he lives in will always give him comfort.
13. anonymous

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    May 11th 2006 !⃝

    Under the Bridge is about Anthony's addiction to drugs. Plain and simple.
14. SpikeRulesHell

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    Feb 14th 2006 !⃝

    The meaning of this song is fairly obvious. He's been alone (mentally) all his life and he looks to his city-Los Angeles-for comfort. In the end, I guess he gets really high and dies. Great church choir there lol.
    
    I always liked this song because I'm from L.A. It reminds me of home.

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