You Bowed Down

The odd part is the verse lyrics are from You Bowed Down but the chorus Lyrics aren't You Bowed Down. It doesn't sound anything like the song "The Bridge I Burned", so I will say it's "You Bowed Down".

Sometime late 1996 early 1997 (estimate)

Category:

Music

Tags:

• The Bridge I Burned
• Elvis Costello
• The Attractions

[suedehead3]

It's called 'You Bowed Down'.

Thanks for posting

[toytrio]

It's confusing... thanks I've changed the title appropriately

[super8king]

@hectorvadair Yeah totally agree

[keonewstuff]

What the hecll happened between Elvis and Bruce? Was it really his book?

[hectorvadair]

Don't know why Costello didn't sang the chorus of Roger Mc Guin's classic from "Rio" lp. The song lost something...

[karenhunter58]

One thing I've always loved about EC is his passion -- it comes through no matter which type of music he's doing (and he's done them all).

[karenhunter58]

@fr34kzi11a How interesting. Thank you for the info.

[fr34kzi11a]

Just to clear up confusion, the change of chorus was midway through the tour when EC and Bruce Thomas had a major falling out. "The bridge I burned" part was indeed about Bruce, and I think EC even told Jay Leno in the interview following this performance that the Attractions were more or less done. Amazing that Bruce could stand next to EC and know the alteration was about him and still not sabotage the performance.

[super8king]

Yeah, at the end of the song, it's looks like Costello is going to punch somebody.

[oghmadhamma]

Also (continuing on my comment below). After this tour ended, Elvis split from the Attractions again, and Bruce Thomas has never come back into the fold. I speculate that the changed chorus line of "You Bowed Down" to "I should have never walked back over the bridge that I burned" was a thinly veiled jab at Bruce. I think the change was spontaneous and the band probably did not know he was going to do that. And of course, the line became the song "The Bridge I Burned" on the Extreme Honey disc.

[oghmadhamma]

Wow, I am so glad you posted this. I used to have this on VHS before I threw all those away. I remember this performance vividly. It was from Tonight Show with Jay Leno in...like...September 1996. I had seen them in concert a few weeks earlier in Philadelphia, then when they did this performance, my friend and I said, "Elvis looks pissed, especially at the end." We reckon he and Bruce Thomas had gotten into a fight before the performance, which would explain the scathing change in the chorus....