We can divide song titles into two categories: those that appear somewhere in the lyrics, and those that don’t. For songs that follow the verse–chorus–bridge form, the first category can be further broken down into titles that appear in a verse, titles that appear in the chorus, and titles that appear in the bridge.*
Song titles tend to be taken from the chorus because its lyrics are usually central to the song and repeated often. And quite often they’re taken from a verse—commonly the first few words of the verse that opens the song. But are titles ever taken from the bridge? I can’t think of any examples myself, except where the title happens to appear in both the bridge and the verse or the chorus. Are there any songs whose titles appear only in the lyrics of the bridge?
*Quick lesson in music theory for those who don’t know what I’m talking about: the chorus, verse, and bridge are melodically distinct sections of a song. The chorus contains the song’s hook and is repeated with little or no lyrical variation, interspersed among the verses. Each verse has the same melody but different lyrics. The bridge, if present, is a shorter section that appears somewhere in the middle of the song; it has unique lyrics and does not repeat as much or at all. (Of course, there are myriad exceptions to all these general rules.)
For example, in John Denver’s “Take Me Home, Country Roads”, the “Country roads, take me home…” part sung four times is the chorus, the “I hear her voice in the morning hour…” part is the bridge, and the “Almost heaven, West Virginia…” and “All my memories gather 'round her…” parts are the verses.
