In music, especially western popular music, a bridge is a contrasting section that prepares for the return of the original material section. The bridge may be the third eight-bar phrase in a thirty-two-bar form (the B in AABA), or may be used more loosely in verse-chorus form, or, in a compound AABA form, used as a contrast to a full AABA section.
The term comes from a German word for bridge, Steg, used by the Meistersingers of the 15th to 18th century to describe a transitional section in medieval bar form. The German term became widely known in 1920s Germany through musicologist Alfred Lorenz and his exhaustive studies of Richard Wagner's adaptations of bar form in his popular 19th century neo-medieval operas. The term entered the English lexicon in the 1930s—translated as bridge—via composers fleeing Nazi Germany who, working in Hollywood and on Broadway, used the term to describe similar transitional sections in the American popular music they were writing.
The Bridge may refer to:
The Bridge is the debut and only studio album by American punk-emo band Letter Kills. Produced by Jim Wirt, the album was released on July 2, 2004 through Island Records.
The track "Radio Up" was featured on the game Burnout 3: Takedown and in NHL 2005.
Slowly awakening
On the ground in forest
I can barely stand
The icy bite of winter is tearing my flesh
Few steps ahead
Hidden among the trees
Corpses unlighted by thin moonbeams
Pale faces in pain, they found no peace in death
Getting close, staring at their eyes
Their mouths frozen in silent cries
I know each and every one of them
I remember the pain
Jealousy, tortured me
Sadness, transformed me
Hypocrisy, angered me
Rancor, fed me
Frustration, mutilation
The faded color of my eyes
Powerless in front of the lie
My rage is waking up
In my back sounds of gluttony
I turn in around to face a different me
Weak with emaciated face
Suddenly I fall in the abyss
Jealousy, tortured me
Sadness, transformed me
Hypocrisy, angered me
Rancor, fed me
Pale faces in pain,