I like SOLAT as an example of giving in to tempation and then regretting it.

I don't know what's wrong with you but you better go get your head checked immediately because Red Mosquito is a great song and one of my favorites that they have ever done. I like Satan's Bed alot and Stip summed it up perfectly but Red Mosquito just blows it away IMO. I would say it's about temptation and I've always thought it was about heroin and related it more to a vampire (two steps ahead of him punctures in your neck, hovering just above your bed) than a mosquito which parallel eachother to an extent. I don't know if Ed has ever had a problem with heroin himself but it could be related to any substance you abuse and for some when an addiction has become a problem even when it seems to have been kicked and pushed aside it's always waiting for you to regress and fall back into the same old trap. In hindsight the person in this song sees now that if he had somehow stayed away from whatever his vice is he would have never realized what kind of damage awaited him.

now that i can see.

I've always taken SOLAT to be about depression...I'm not seeing the temptation angle at all. Where do you see it, c_b or PD?

Love em both, but Satans bed. great subject to touch on btw.

well that can be your own little oppinion then.

key word little

Satan's Bed

definitely satan's bed

I thought SOLAT was about cheating on a girl.

Didn't we have this discussion when SOLAT was song of the moment?

RM. although it was pretty close for me

you mentioned it briefly--the smell that's on my hands and dick. I've never heard him sing that lyric, at least not that i can remember. What other boots was it on besides the singles preimer? It might have just been a pretty crass lyric change,

I as well always thought of SOLAT as a song about cheating on your partner and regretting it.

It makes sense. The problem I have is that i've never been quite sure of all the lyrics other than the parts that are clearly contemplating suicide.

But if that's the case, the meat of the song is about the regret, not the temptation.

i've always thought that one segment of lyrics in solat was a reference to commiting suicide and whether or not the man should do it.

in retrospect, i believe i could see how solat is more based in regret than temptation, then. i still don't see the temptation in red mosquito, though.

I think RM and SB are both about temptation in the fact that Satan/the devil is mentioned in both songs and has to do with Original Sin (the devil tempting Eve with the apple).

well i just think ed was comparing his sickness with the devil -- i'm not sure his sickness was a result of him eating/drinking something bad.

I love the 2003 RMs, since Boom is doing the solos, Mike is free to do weird cool noises, riffs,etc.