…a one-hit wonder with a four-trick bridge.
IMO this is one of the best bridges of the ’90s…
It’s in F#, I’m writing in D, I have it as:
(end of the verse, for context)
Is there [D]something [D/F#]wrong and you
[Em7]Can't put your finger [G]on it
[D] Right [Em7]then [G]roll to [D]me
[D] [D/F#] [Em7] [D]
(bridge)
And I d[D7/A]on't think I have [Gm/Bb]ever seen
A[F#m7/A] soul so in desp[Em7/G]air
So [D/F#]if you want to ta[G6]lk the night through
G[Em7]uess who will be there [A] [A/G] [D/F#] [A/E]If this bridge had any two of the following things, I would call it a great bridge; it has all four:
- Melody hitting it hard on the 7 of the chord (a C in the melody over a D chord on “I don’t think”)
- Super-fantastic iv (the Gm)
- Bass movement that’s simple but never lands on what I would call the root of the key (though I may be making up the /5 on the first chord in the bridge)
- Super-fantastic harmony… I can’t entirely parse it, but I think I hear a G on “I don’t think”, where the chord is D7 and the melody is on a C
Hmmm… can I still call it a bridge if it happens twice? Well, it’s my blog and I’m calling it a bridge.
Also what I think I’m hearing in the harmony there – over a D chord, with the melody on a C (the 7) and the harmony on a G (the sus4) – is highly reminiscent of the exact same harmony (C and G over a D chord) in Drive My Car, on “asked a girl”:
[D]Asked a girl what she [G]wanted to be (G and C in the vocals) (G and B in the vocals)