# Songs whose title appears only in the bridge **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** music\ **Created:** [October 30, 2025, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-whose-title-appears-only-in-the-bridge/1024420 "2025-10-30T15:04:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![psychonaut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/psychonaut/32/4655_2.png) [@psychonaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychonaut)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2025, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-whose-title-appears-only-in-the-bridge/1024420/1 "2025-10-30T15:04:34Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2025, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-whose-title-appears-only-in-the-bridge/1024420/2 "2025-10-30T15:22:36Z")
Rihanna, _S&M_ ---
**Author:** ![Pork\_Rind](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pork_rind/32/111_2.png) [@Pork\_Rind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pork_Rind)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2025, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-whose-title-appears-only-in-the-bridge/1024420/3 "2025-10-30T15:24:30Z")
_Dream On_, Aerosmith ---
**Author:** ![xtenkfarpl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/c2a13f/32.png) [@xtenkfarpl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xtenkfarpl)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2025, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-whose-title-appears-only-in-the-bridge/1024420/4 "2025-10-30T15:42:09Z")
Well, there’s Cream’s ‘Badge’. The word doesn’t actually appear but there is a well-known story that when Clapton was writing it, George Harrison dropped by, looked at the lyric sketch and saw a section Clapton had scribbled which was meant to say ‘bridge’… Not Yet Famous, but I have a song called ‘Diva in Disguise’ on a forthcoming album (out in a month or two) which fits the description. (Replaces Own Trumpet)…. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2025, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-whose-title-appears-only-in-the-bridge/1024420/5 "2025-10-30T16:48:04Z")
Journey, _Don’t Stop Believin’_ _Hold onto that feeeeeeeling_ _Street lights, people oooooohhh_ ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2025, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-whose-title-appears-only-in-the-bridge/1024420/6 "2025-10-30T19:41:46Z")
“Surfin Bird” Maybe, that’s more of a break than a bridge. ---
**Author:** ![The\_wind\_of\_my\_soul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@The\_wind\_of\_my\_soul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_wind_of_my_soul)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2025, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-whose-title-appears-only-in-the-bridge/1024420/7 "2025-10-30T19:50:31Z")
“Only God Knows Why” Kid Rock ---
**Author:** ![whitetho](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whitetho/32/1059_2.png) [@whitetho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whitetho)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2025, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-whose-title-appears-only-in-the-bridge/1024420/8 "2025-10-30T20:09:11Z")
My knowledge of music theory is weak. Does “Butter Boy” by Fanny (US. #29, 1975) count? ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2025, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-whose-title-appears-only-in-the-bridge/1024420/9 "2025-10-30T20:32:03Z")
I think Elvis Costello’s “Two Little Hitlers” counts. The chorus is “I will return, I will not burn”, but the song title appears in a section between the verse and the chorus. But it gets even more complicated, there’s even a fourth section you could call a classic middle eight, beginning with “a simple game of self respect…”. So I’m undecided if it counts. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/dgLT4G563Ds/maxresdefault.jpg "Two Little Hitlers") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgLT4G563Ds) ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2025, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-whose-title-appears-only-in-the-bridge/1024420/10 "2025-10-30T20:40:04Z")
> [@whitetho](#): > > Does “Butter Boy” by Fanny (US. #29, 1975) count? I think the bridge in that song is the sax solo. In fact, most bridges are instrumental solos.