Under the Bridge - RHCP - my anthem of sexual frustration
Red Hot Chili Peppers lost me with this song, and it took ten years until "By the Way" to win me back.

When I hear to opening guitar notes from Under the Bridge, I am transported back to sometime after midnight, anynight, 1992, in my then-girlfriend's then-apartment, her dead asleep (that woman could have slept through childbirth!), me wide awake, wondering what happened to the little dropped hints of getting some special delights once my friends got the hint and left. Then wondering how much trouble I'd be in for waking her up to get some, or how much trouble I'd be in if she woke up to me "taking matters into my own hands."

Might not have been so bad if the station didn't play that song at almost the exact same time every night, and I was usually awake for it, for the same reason.

Thirteen years and counting, I still hate that song.

EDIT: I just humbled myself to read the lyrics, and they are strangely fitting in a lonely, sarcastic frustrated kind of way.
( setimret likes his metaphors mixed, not stirred, Mon 28 Mar 2005, 17:04, Reply)