Sometimes I feel like I don't 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 because she's my companion
I walk through her hill because she knows who I am
She sees my good deeds and she kisses me windy
I never worry, now that is a lie

I don't ever want to feel like I did that day
Take me to the place I love, take me all the way
I don't ever want to feel like I did that day
Take me to the place I love, take me all the way

It's hard to believe that there's nobody out there
It's hard to believe that I'm all alone
At least I have her love, the city she loves me
Lonely as I am, together we cry

I don't ever want to feel like I did that day
Take me to the place I love, take me all the way
I don't ever want to feel like I did that day
Take me to the place I love, take me all the way

(Under the bridge downtown)
Is where I drew some blood
(Under the bridge downtown)
I could not get enough
(Under the bridge downtown)
Forgot about my love
(Under the bridge downtown)
I gave my life away

Tekst: Anthony Kiedis
Muzika: John Frusciante & Flea
Album: Blood, Sugar, Sex, Magik (1992)

Anthony Kiedis je napisao većinu stihova u periodu kada se osećao emotivno napuštenim. On se gotovo 3 godine držao na distanci od ostatka benda. Dok je grupa radila na albumu Blood Sugar Sex Magik, Frusciante i Flea su često zajedno pušili marihuanu i vidno izbegavali Anthony-ja. On se prisećao momenata zavisnosti od heroina i kokaina, i veze sa devojkom Skye. Bila su to veoma teška vremena za njega: "The loneliness that I was feeling triggered memories of my time with her and how I'd had this beautiful angel of a girl who was willing to give me all of her love, and instead of embracing that, I was downtown with fucking gangsters shooting speedballs under a bridge."
Osećaj usamljenosti naveo je Kiedis-a da pomisli da je njegov jedini saputnik grad Los Anđeles: "I felt an unspoken bond between me and my city. I'd spent so much time wandering through the streets of L.A. and hiking through the Hollywood Hills that I sensed there was a nonhuman entity, maybe the spirit of the hills and the city, who had me in her sights and was looking after me" - upravo u tome se govori u prvim stihovima pesme.
Za Anthony-ja, to mesto (Under the bridge) predstavlja najtamniji i najgori deo života, kada se morao predstavljati kao verenik sestre narko-dilera, sve zarad lakšeg nabavljanja droge.

Under the bridge je jedna od pesama koja nikoga ne ostavlja ravnodušnim, i uglavnom je jako omiljena bez obzira na uzrast. Kakva su vaša osećanja povodom ove pesme?