Best song bridges/interludes?

Stove
Stove Posts: 370
edited July 19 in The Porch
So of my fav parts of Pearl Jam songs are the bridges/breaks where ED and co go to a different place or Ed kinda gets to the heart of the biscuit about what the song is about. What are your favorite bridges/breaks? 

Who Ever Said

"Home is where,… the broken heart is
Home is where,… every scar is

Blinking stars, beneath you roam
Room to tomb and cradle to grave
All the answers will be found
In the mistakes that we have made

One bad ear and one eye blind
It takes a village but don't take mine

Living forward in a backwards town
I feed em drinks just to watch em drown

Swallow my pencil and bleed out my pen
Surrender the wish we’ll be together again

I won’t give up,… no, I won’t give up
On satisfaction,… satisfaction

Pull myself aside on a sleepless night
Sadness blurs, I’m in need of a light
Out of balance, balance, balance this time
And I’m feeling fading, calling as I’m falling out of sight

As the silence gets louder my heart gets pounding
And ventricles pumping, working overtime

Our freedoms fraught with danger being circumscribed
A life cut short and circumcised

A rubble of commandments from the road, step aside
A rubble of commandments in the road, step aside"

 
More recently "Scared Of Fear" has the bridge that I can't not get emotional about

"Hear the voices calling
Oh, again they’re calling
All around my head
Have I lost my friend?

Is this what we’ve become?
One last setting sun
I’ll give, but i can’t give up
I’ll live, not long enough

To stop these voices calling
Stop the voices calling
All around my head
As if you never left"

Aaaand honorable mention to "Pilate" that bridge is transcendental

"Stunned by my own reflection
It's looking back, sees me too clearly
And I swore I'd never go there again
Not unlike a friend that politely drags you down
You down...you down...you down"
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  • Merkin Baller
    Merkin Baller Posts: 12,781
    Brain of J
  • benlw86
    benlw86 Posts: 96
    edited July 18
    Scared of Fear bridge (alongside Setting Sun second half) is the most exciting Pearl Jam in the last 19 years.

    In My Tree? More so with the riff coming out of it. Never had a sky seemed so great than when listening to that.

    Faithful riff on the bridge? Wow.
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  • benlw86
    benlw86 Posts: 96
    Wanted to keep bumping Scared of Fear. The drums, Eds voice (amazing) and Mikes playing all overlapping. So. Good 
  • nicknyr15
    nicknyr15 Posts: 9,221
    Almost every song on DM has a fantastic bridge. 
  • We All Believe
    We All Believe Eastchester, NY - Proud South Canadian. Posts: 802
    Scared Of Fear. Every other bridge is tied for second.

    It's a perfect bridge from start to finish, but when it picks up (Is this what we've become) and I hear Mike's solo in my right headphone, I lose my shit.
    May your days be long, til kingdom come.
  • We All Believe
    We All Believe Eastchester, NY - Proud South Canadian. Posts: 802
    More recently "Scared Of Fear" has the breakup that I can't not get emotional about
    Same. 💔
    May your days be long, til kingdom come.
  • Stove
    Stove Posts: 370
    benlw86 said:
    Scared of Fear bridge (alongside Setting Sun second half) is the most exciting Pearl Jam in the last 19 years.

    In My Tree? More so with the riff coming out of it. Never had a sky seemed so great than when listening to that.

    Faithful riff on the bridge? Wow.
    Oh my god...how could I forget Faithful! 
  • HH140540
    HH140540 Atlanta Posts: 576
    benlw86 said:
    Scared of Fear bridge (alongside Setting Sun second half) is the most exciting Pearl Jam in the last 19 years.

    In My Tree? More so with the riff coming out of it. Never had a sky seemed so great than when listening to that.

    Faithful riff on the bridge? Wow.
    All my favorite PJ tunes 
  • lastexitlondon
    lastexitlondon Posts: 14,896
    Stove said:
    So of my fav parts of Pearl Jam songs are the bridges/breaks where ED and co go to a different place or Ed kinda gets to the heart of the biscuit about what the song is about. What are your favorite bridges/breaks? 

    Who Ever Said

    "Home is where,… the broken heart is
    Home is where,… every scar is

    Blinking stars, beneath you roam
    Room to tomb and cradle to grave
    All the answers will be found
    In the mistakes that we have made

    One bad ear and one eye blind
    It takes a village but don't take mine

    Living forward in a backwards town
    I feed em drinks just to watch em drown

    Swallow my pencil and bleed out my pen
    Surrender the wish we’ll be together again

    I won’t give up,… no, I won’t give up
    On satisfaction,… satisfaction

    Pull myself aside on a sleepless night
    Sadness blurs, I’m in need of a light
    Out of balance, balance, balance this time
    And I’m feeling fading, calling as I’m falling out of sight

    As the silence gets louder my heart gets pounding
    And ventricles pumping, working overtime

    Our freedoms fraught with danger being circumscribed
    A life cut short and circumcised

    A rubble of commandments from the road, step aside
    A rubble of commandments in the road, step aside"

     
    More recently "Scared Of Fear" has the bridge that I can't not get emotional about

    "Hear the voices calling
    Oh, again they’re calling
    All around my head
    Have I lost my friend?

    Is this what we’ve become?
    One last setting sun
    I’ll give, but i can’t give up
    I’ll live, not long enough

    To stop these voices calling
    Stop the voices calling
    All around my head
    As if you never left"

    Aaaand honorable mention to "Pilate" that bridge is transcendental

    "Stunned by my own reflection
    It's looking back, sees me too clearly
    And I swore I'd never go there again
    Not unlike a friend that politely drags you down
    You down...you down...you down"




    We speak the exact same language. These are exactly what I would choose


    this song is meant to be called i got shit,itshould be called i got shit tickets-hartford 06 -
  • Pap
    Pap Serres, Greece Posts: 29,947
    edited July 20
    Immortality

    I cannot stop the thought... I'm running in the dark...
    Coming up a which way sign... all good truants must decide...
    Oh, stripped and sold, mom... auctioned forearm...
    And whiskers in the sink...
    Truants move on... cannot stay long
    Some die just to live...
    Ohh...

    Education

    I'm questioning my education
    Rewind and what does it show?
    Could be, the truth it becomes you
    I'm a seed, wondering why it grows
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    Athens 2006 / Milton Keynes 2014 / London 1&2 2022 / Seattle 1&2 2024 / Dublin 2024 / Manchester 2024 / New Orleans 2025
  • demetrios
    demetrios Posts: 97,346
    benlw86 said:

    Faithful riff on the bridge? Wow.
    💔  it! 


  • colors blend
    colors blend Posts: 202
    Not a big fan of lighting bolt lyrically until ….

    Always something and never nothing 
    Isn't that the way we're taught to be?
    Flipping through the worn out pages 
    And stages when you knew not who to be 
    Til the lightning strike sets you free
    you're god and you've got big hands
  • VINNY GOOMBA
    VINNY GOOMBA Posts: 1,825
    I don't really care for Supersonic.  But the bridge in that one is one of Pearl Jam's filthiest riffs.  So good.  Definitely Stone Gossard doing his thing!  I wish it was a whole other song built around that riff

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