Red Mosquito

With or Without You is a fantastic song and 7:00 is nothing like it.

cutuphalfdead wrote:With or Without You is a fantastic song and 7:00 is nothing like it.

There's a similar melody im hearing

cutuphalfdead wrote:With or Without You is a fantastic song and 7:00 is nothing like it.

at 1:30 of Seven O Clock,sing the chorus to WITH OR WITHOUT YOUUU

Vindicator wrote:

cutuphalfdead wrote:With or Without You is a fantastic song and 7:00 is nothing like it.

at 1:30 of Seven O Clock,sing the chorus to WITH OR WITHOUT YOUUU

I hear what you mean. Not the first thing I thought of, but I hear it.

7 o'clock in the morning,
got a message from afar;
down under an oasis
where there are dreams still being born
and summer spoke to winter,
relaying all-encouraging words
and I was fully grateful,
knew the messages were heard

moved on from my despondency,
and left it in the bed;
do I leave it there still sleeping?
or maybe kill it - better yet
for this is no time for depression
or self-indulgent hesitance,
this fucked up situation calls for all hands, all hands on deck

freedom is as freedom does and freedom is a verb;
take everything they take(th?) and you fight to keep that which you've earned;
saw the destination, got so close before it turned;
swim sideways from this undertow, and do not be deterred

floodlike dreams are drifting past,
all the lies we could've...


and then I lost it

Only song on first listen that gave me shivers. Not sure I love the outro but it's beautiful up to that point.

The outro kinda kills it for me.

This is PJ doing a Killers's song.

the verses are extremely cheesy. the chorus is pretty nice. mixture of good and really bad on this track

Strat wrote:This is so not springsteen in any sense of the word

Musically, I agree, but Eddie's definitely pulling from that pocket of his trick bag in the vocal delivery; I can hear elements of Springsteen's beatnik-y Greetings From Asbury Park style in places, though it's certainly filtered through Eddie's own lens and persona. In general there's a lyrical density to this album that nods more faithfully (and in a lot of ways more successfully) to that field of influence -- the Springsteens and Dylans -- than ever before. Not a bad thing at all in my book. I dig how this song toggles back and forth between that approach in the verses and the dreamier, more melancholic approach during the breaks.

I predict this song quickly becomes fertile "forgotten lyrics" territory.

I really love this, beautiful in its simplicity and one of the more convincing melodies Ed has written in sometime.

I don’t get the springsteen ref, it reminds me of issac brock from modest mouse. The phrasing, the inflections, the vocabulary and the feel.

Anyone else hearing that

sounds like the boys took an eddie vedder solo song and improved it. very pretty

it struck me this morning that lyrically and sonically this is an inversion of sleight of hand

Ed over-sings early, but the second half of this song is outstanding.

This feels like it lasts forever.

currently falling in love with this song

Bottom three song for me so far.

4 stars so far

tree_ wrote:I wish Tom Petty sang this one slowed down a bit I think.. Ed just doesn't fit for me

The Tom Petty-esque section in the middle almost takes me out of the song at times.