PJ Song of the Week Analysis: Red Mosquito

Flannel Shirt
Flannel Shirt Posts: 1,021
edited February 2006 in Words and Music...Communication
Red Mosquito

watched from the window, with a red mosquito
i was not allowed to leave the room
i saw the sun go down, and now it's coming up
somewhere in the time between
i was bitten, must have been the devil
he was just paying me...
a little visit, reminding me of his presence
letting me know, he's a-waiting... oh
red man's your neighbor, call it behavior
while you're climbing up slippery hills
two steps ahead of him, punctures in your neck
hovering just above your bed
hovering just above your bed
i was bitten, must have been the devil
he was just paying me...
a little visit, reminding me of his presence
and letting me know, he's a'waiting, he's a'waiting...
up there... yeah
if i had known then what i know now...
if i had known then what i know now...
if i had known then what i know now...
if i had known then what i know now...
All that's sacred, comes from youth....dedications, naive and true.
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  • thatgirl
    thatgirl Posts: 3,671
    my favorite song
    "I hear Fanch has a Pimp Cup and loves Kiss. I think that's all that really matters."
  • darthvedder88
    darthvedder88 Posts: 1,023
    That song gets me so pumped!!! OMG MIKE MCCREADY JUST PLAYS THE HELL OUTTA THIS SONG!!! It would've been interesting to have seen a video for this one...heard a rumor that it was written about a patient who was in a hospital and was there bc they were involved in something they regret...but with that in mind I think it's sort of symbolic about No Code as a "healing album" and that the title had something to do with a hospital...there, got my 2 cents worth...
    "Darth Vader would say 'Impressive'."

    -Eddie Vedder

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    6/14/08 Manchester, Tennessee
  • likepilateihaveadog
    likepilateihaveadog Posts: 1,083
    It's about some sort of guilt remorse thing and finally taking the responsilibty for what happened.
    Bitten by the devil - this whole idea seems to me like a shirking of responsibility, blaming it on something else, little, insignificant.
    If I had known then, what I know now. I think we all had thought that one before we heard it in the song (it's a sagacious little thing to say anyway) and this just kind of sums it up. I should've taken the fall...if I had known.


    But that's like your opinion, Dude
    Teamwork. Rawk. Pwnage. Infinite Possibilities. YIELD. Hells yeah.
  • BUFFALO
    BUFFALO Posts: 760
    i love this song ...i remember the first time i heard ....at the time i wasnt the biggest fan of no code until i heard this ...it sent chills down my back
    Buffalo 96,Barrie 98,Tampa 00,Orlando HOB 03,Buffalo 03,London 05,Hamilton 05 ,Toronto 06,
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  • GreyRedGirl
    GreyRedGirl Comber, Ontario Posts: 35
    After listening to it fer the first time I was informed from a fella that it was about vampires. I don't know if it really is or not but I've never been able to shake the vampire association from the tune.
  • likepilateihaveadog
    likepilateihaveadog Posts: 1,083
    GreyRedGirl wrote:
    After listening to it fer the first time I was informed from a fella that it was about vampires. I don't know if it really is or not but I've never been able to shake the vampire association from the tune.
    Neither am I.

    Thanks.
    Teamwork. Rawk. Pwnage. Infinite Possibilities. YIELD. Hells yeah.
  • res perv
    res perv Posts: 20
    underplayed, underappreciated, underrated
  • restlesssoul
    restlesssoul Posts: 6,952
    took me a while for that one to grow on me, only listened to studio for the longest time, then it popped on a live boot, and bam it hit me, .. great guitar live......was recorded in new orleans, it was played at the gorge or vancouver in 05 cant remember which one, they mention it cuz of the flood.
    Van '98, Sea I+II '00, Sea '01, Sea II '02, Van '03, Gorge, Van, Cal, Edm '05, Bos I+II, Phi I+II, DC, SF II+III, Port, Gorge I+II '06, DC, NY I+II '08, Sea I+II, Van, Ridge , LA III+IV' 09, Indy '10, Cal, Van '11, Lond, Van, Sea '13, Memphis '14, RRHOF '17, Sea I+II '18, Van I+II, Vegas I+II, Sea I+II '24
  • likepilateihaveadog
    likepilateihaveadog Posts: 1,083
    Yes, here's to the slide. Mike makes good use of it.

    Calgary '05.
    Teamwork. Rawk. Pwnage. Infinite Possibilities. YIELD. Hells yeah.
  • privatejoker22
    privatejoker22 Posts: 47
    This is definitely one of those tunes that grows on you...

    I always thought it was about a heroin addict that can't get off the junk. Finally o.d'ing... I don't know maybe that's a little morbid.

    Still, McCready really lets fly on this one live.
    "My road may be lonely
    just because it's not paved

    it's good for drifting away..."
    "What's the score?"
    "Nothing, nothing."
    "Who's winning?"
    "The Bears."

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