red mosquito

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  • prodacake
    prodacake Posts: 319
    Hope to hear it live one day, great song from a mind blowing album
  • webberf1
    webberf1 Posts: 160
    we all know the album No Code is full of riddles and secrets. Red Mosquito contains yet another. At the start of the studio version Stone says "Giant on line one. Ninety-five." I am yet to crack this riddle. For the life of me i cant get what it is leading to...
  • Anon
    Anon Posts: 11,175
    Mookie1976 wrote:
    Thats what I heard also... It was a show in SF where he had to go off stage because he had a food poisoning. Neil Young jumped in to get the band through it. I think its written in 5 against 1.

    Ed had to stay in the hospital room for at least 12 hours (sun go down... and now its coming up). A red mosquito was in there as well and buged him all the time...
    So plenty of time to get to thinking...

    Please correct me if I'm wrong.

    Much love

    M

    that was my first show!

    awesome amazing song, but i always wondered about it, was it really about food poisoing? was it drugs maybe, an overdose, a visit from the devil, he's awaiting? if i had known then, what i know now......?

    am i reading too much into the lyrics?

    anyone?
  • Sian-of-the-dead
    Sian-of-the-dead Posts: 8,963
    A helluva song! :D

    I like it so much i'm getting a red mosquito tattooed on my left wrist :O
    Been to this many PJ shows: Reading 2006 London 2007 Manchester & London 2009 Dublin, Belfast, London, Nijmegen & Berlin 2010 Manchester 1 & Manchester 2 2012...

    ... and I still think Drive-By Truckers are better.
  • Androgynous Mind
    Androgynous Mind Posts: 520
    This was one of the highlights of my first show.

    Red Mosquito live is so phenomenal. I love the studio version, but live takes this song to another stratosphere!
    Oh he fills it up with the love of a girl...
  • Androgynous Mind
    Androgynous Mind Posts: 520
    prodacake wrote:
    Hope to hear it live one day, great song from a mind blowing album

    My favorite album to date!

    It will take something pretty damn impressive from PJ to change that.
    Oh he fills it up with the love of a girl...
  • upina2001
    upina2001 Indiana Posts: 764
    i fell in love with this song standing on the hill at Alpine Valley June 98.
    Never even realized what a great song it truely was until that moment.

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  • PJSEMPRE
    PJSEMPRE Posts: 687
    Great song!
    I love the sound of Mike's guitar.
    Let's say knowledge is a tree, yeah.
    It's growing up just like me.
  • olderman
    olderman Posts: 1,765
    play it again!!
    Down the street you can hear her scream youre a disgrace
    As she slams the door in his drunken face
    And now he stands outside
    And all the neighbours start to gossip and drool
    He cries oh, girl you must be mad,
    What happened to the sweet love you and me had?
    Against the door he leans and starts a scene,
    And his tears fall and burn the garden green
  • halszka123
    halszka123 Posts: 1,109
    U know? I like this song, but... i really don't understand the lyrics. If they are so simple as they seems... i really can't grasp it.
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  • PatrickBateman
    PatrickBateman Posts: 2,243
    awesome song
    If a man speaks in a forest and there is no woman around to hear him, is he still wrong?
  • NeverbeenLedbetter
    NeverbeenLedbetter Posts: 213
    like most from no code it is just a great song that sneaks up on you and you find yourself say my God that is awesome!
    Raleigh '03; Hartford '08; Mansfield II '08; Buffalo '10; Hartford '10;
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    Asbury Park '21; MSG '22; Camden '22
  • WaveCameCrashin
    WaveCameCrashin Posts: 2,929
    they played it in coumbia s.c. 6/16/08 and ed said it was about being stuck in a motel room.buy the boot leg and you can hear it for yourself.
  • Androgynous Mind
    Androgynous Mind Posts: 520
    gvn2fly74 wrote:
    they played it in coumbia s.c. 6/16/08 and ed said it was about being stuck in a motel room.buy the boot leg and you can hear it for yourself.

    Haha, I love the crazy Ed stories about where songs come from. :)
    Oh he fills it up with the love of a girl...
  • Sanquiii
    Sanquiii Posts: 34
    love it! the lyrics are spectacular!
    the music is awesome too!
    one of my favs!
    i wanna hear it aliveeeeeeeeeee
    " El concierto de anoche fue uno de los más memorables de nuestra vida, la gente de Argentina ha sido fantásica con nosotros, no nos queremos Ir "
    Eddie 11/26/05 Bs. As Argentina
  • pearljamgirl07
    pearljamgirl07 Posts: 792
    PatrickBateman wrote:
    awesome song
    :)agree
    "You're the eve of my destruction in the garden of fears"
  • scoob1057
    scoob1057 Posts: 94
    Great song,, i felt the same way when I got DEEP at Hershey.....Watta feeling
  • I Ride The Wave
    I Ride The Wave Posts: 21
    I was at the last show they played this (6-16-08) a first for me even though i have been rocking them for (as EDDIE would say) 16 fuckin years!!! Great song live glad I was there. "Alright this one goes back aways it's all about ah,.... being trapped in a motel room with an insect."
    "Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency"
    ~Natalie Goldberg
  • kenny olav
    kenny olav Posts: 3,319
    the rendition they did of RM in Boston on 5/24/06 is the best i've heard. i'm going to listen to it right now in fact.
  • JIT
    JIT Posts: 47
    I go that shit tattooed on my leg!!!

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