"Under The Bridge"

Sometimes I feel
Like I don't have a partner
Sometimes I feel
Like my only friend
Is the city I live in
The city of angels
Lonely as I am
Together we cry

I drive on her streets
'Cause she's my companion
I walk through her hills
'Cause she knows who I am
She sees my good deeds
And she kisses me windy
I never worry
Now that is a lie

[2x]
I don't ever want to feel
Like I did that day
Take me to the place I love
Take me all the way

It's hard to believe
That there's nobody out there
It's hard to believe
That I'm all alone
At least I have her love
The city she loves me
Lonely as I am
Together we cry

[2x]
I don't ever want to feel
Like I did that day
Take me to the place I love
Take me all the way

Under the bridge downtown
Is where I drew some blood
Under the bridge downtown
I could not get enough
Under the bridge downtown
Forgot about my love
Under the bridge downtown
I gave my life away 

The red Hot chilli peppers "under the bridge" utilizes personification to effortlessly describe the struggles that he goes through with drugs. Starting off the songwriter sings about  his feeling of loneliness, this will persist throughout the song, but this first stanza implies that he is with someone but he feels like he is not, then he continues by saying his only friend is the city he lives in which is Los Angeles. This is saying that the city supports him, the people in it but they somewhat combine as a single entity and he sees it as the city itself. Then he says they cry together, this could be the rain in the city or the people could be upset because of his addiction, even though it isn't quite said what his addiction is yet it is somewhat learned later.  Some background to this song is that the singer/songwriter is was having problems with some of the other band members of the band so he has a lot of time, and may feel as though he is alone sometimes.  So in the next stanza when he says he walks through the hills and streets he may literally be walking through the streets and hills of  the city because he has so much time alone at this point because of his fight with his band mates. He then says in the chorus he never wants to feel the way he did that day ever again, this alludes to his drug problem and how bad it was and how he never wanted to be that again.   The next line could be taken two ways one being that he wants to be high again he wants to go back to that place again and the second interpretation is that he is talking about the city that he loves and he wants to be back there.  He then says its hard to believe he is alone, which is just a repetition of the first stanza.  The very last stanza is where he says his addiction, when he talks about drawing blood under the bridge, this clearly shows it was heroin. He shows all the signs off addiction in the last four lines where he says he forgets his love and gave his life away, meaning he has spent his whole life on heroin and it has destroyed it, and he regrets it.