“Bridge To Nowhere” by Sam Roberts

"Bridge to Nowhere" was the second single the Canadian songwriter Sam Roberts pulled from his second album, Chemical City, in 2006, and it hurtles along at a clip in an unusual 6/4 meter, which gives the whole thing a restless, lopsided gallop. Acoustic and electric guitars, electric piano and tambourine push it toward folk rock, with Josh Trager on drums and percussion.

Roberts wrote it alone and co-produced it with Joseph Donovan and Mark Howard, who also engineered, before Stuart Sikes mixed it. The words follow a troubled man just trying to get through an ordinary day, and the black-and-white, computer-animated video plays that out: Roberts wakes up, heads past police cars to the train station, rides a futuristic locomotive into Chemical City and rides the elevator up its tallest tower to answer to a shadowy boss, then heads home to bed.

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