[Sohi]

the song is a bout a dead body...

when New Orleans' water levels rise, old corpses in cemetaries have been known to be washed away...

hence

"my memory is muddy, what's this river that I'm in, New Orleans is sinking man and I don't wanna swim"

Gord is singing from the point of view of a corpse...but the real proof is in the line:

"i had my hands in the river, my feet back up on the banks, I looked up to the lord above and said hey man thanks"...Gord's being sarcastic obviously, and really pissed that as fate would have it, he (a corpse) has washed up on a bank, more proof: "sometimes i feel so good i gotta scream, she said Gordie baby, i know exactly what you mean, she said "ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh" <--- woman screaming in horror after discovering a corpse...

now, what the corpse may or may not be a metaphor for, i don't know for certain, but I am 100% sure that the song (at least that part of it) is told from the vantage point of a corpse...



do i think they'll play it in NO...I don't think they will, i think INOIB might be more likely...but really, they have such a huge back catalogue of classics, they don't have to play either, and it won't matter if they don't...except to a few casual or newbie fans who haven't heard it live before, that REALLY REALLY want to...

*Clap* *Clap* well said