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The lyrics take away all credibility that Kiedis has. Through these words, the song actually uses the opposite of Ethos to appeal to its listeners. Under the bridge downtown, I gave my life away.” Under the bridge downtown forgot about my love. Under the bridge downtown, I could not get enough. “Under the bridge downtown, is where I drew some blood. Kiedis explains this in the lyrics of “Under the Bridge”: His drug problem got him kicked out of the band for a brief period, pushed away Ione Skye, his girlfriend at the time, and destroyed his life by making everything, even music, less important than getting a fix. It does this through explaining how unethical and destructive Anthony Kiedis’ life was on drugs, appealing to the audience’s emotions by showing how alone and distant Kiedis had grown from his friends, family, and band mates, and how, despite the isolation he felt during his recovery, his life on drugs would always be his lowest point.Īnthony Kiedis’s addiction to Cocaine and Heroin took priority over everything in his life. “Under the Bridge” makes the argument to a modern audience that addiction to drugs will ruin the user’s life. When I first heard it, in 2008, it quickly became one of my favorite songs. Millions had heard its lyrics, its emotional, heartbreaking story of a man whose life had been torn apart by drugs and was trying to repair it by himself. It is instead a compelling story of dedication and debauchery, of intrigue and integrity, of recklessness and redemption.I was twelve when I first heard “Under the Bridge” by the Red Hot Chili Peppers. SCAR TISSUE far transcends the typical rock biography, because Anthony Kiedis is anything but a typical rock star. Crisscrossing the country, the Chili Peppers were musical innovators and influenced a whole generation of musicians.īut there's a price to pay for both success and excess and in SCAR TISSUE, Kiedis writes candidly of the overdose death of his soul mate and band mate, Hillel Slovak, and his own ongoing struggle with an addiction to drugs. He formed the band with three schoolfriends - and found his life's purpose. and plunged headfirst into the demimonde of the L.A.

After a brief child-acting career, Kiedis dropped out of U.C.L.A. Raised in the Midwest, he moved to LA aged eleven to live with his father Blackie, purveyor of pills, pot, and cocaine to the Hollywood elite. In SCAR TISSUE Anthony Kiedis, charismatic and highly articulate frontman of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, recounts his remarkable life story, and the history of the band itself.