"New Orleans is Sinking", The Tragically Hip's Tragic Prophecy

Who would have thought when Gordon Downie, of the Canadian super-band The Tragically Hip, bellowed "New Orleans is Sinking" on the 1989 album "Up To Here" how right he would be. As New Orleans now sinks, experts around the world are pouring over Tragically Hip lyrics looking for other prophetic musings. Not since the works of Nostradamus were discovered have the writings of a single person been held in such light. A preliminary finding has shed light on a possible maritime accident in French coastal waters in the coming weeks or months. As the lyrics of "Nautical Disaster" on the 1994 album "Day For Night" seem to indicate. The French coast guard has been put on high alert. Other predictions are certain to come to light in the coming weeks as the lyrics are studied. Gordon Downie, the main song writer for the Tragically Hip, was unavailable for comment and hasn't been seen in public since the Live 8 concert. His band mates, who were contacted at a pub playing pool in Kingston, Ontario, trying to convince a group of American high school teenagers that they were in fact famous, seemed unworried. In fact, as Tragically Hip guitarist Bobby Baker said, "Gord? Shit, we haven't seen him for months." When asked if the band were worried that Gordon Downie may be in danger for possessing the ability to see into the future they seemed unconcerned. Drummer Johhny Fay said, "Gordon's probably on some spiritual journey to the Arctic, or carving totem poles with the Haida on the Queen Charlotte Islands. He'll be back when the money runs out." When the band was asked if they had any idea that Godon's lyrics are a window into the future they seemed unconvinced. Bassist Gord Sinclair stated, "Gordon can't see into the future. He wrote "New Orleans is Sinking" after drinking two and half bottles of bourbon after a show we did down there during Mardi Gras. If anything, the line, 'and I don't want to swim' comes from the fact we found him passed out in a pool of his own piss behind a dumpster on bourbon street." Others, however, are convinced that the lyrics of the Tragically do have a greater meaning. This belief is evidenced in the Canadian prairie province of Manitoba, around the city of Winnipeg, where people by the hundreds are searching for treasure that a group of "Wheat Kings" are said to have buried there. As written in a Tragically Hip song of the same name from 1992's "Fully Completely". Since it is now clear that the Tragically Hip's lyrics hold such a vast amount of meaning their next album has become the most awaited album by a Canadian artist since William Shatner's "Has Been".