A song about water, ships, brotherhood and poet-musicians? Are Gord and Craig related? Mr. Northey wrote: "band life is full of its co-dependent compromises and internal power plays but in the end the brothers are all in it together. We set this metaphor of castaways adrift at sea to music."

"...Troubadours cut loose to float"

Troubadours are described as: "aristocratic poet-musicians of Southern France (Provence) who flourished from the end of the 11th cent. through the 13th cent. Many troubadours were noblemen and crusader knights; some were kings, e.g., Richard I, Coeur de Lion; Thibaut IV, king of Navarre; and Alfonso X, king of Castile and León.

Troubadour lyrics were sung and accompanied by instruments that probably duplicated the melody (all the music preserved is monophonic). The poems were written in the southern dialect called langue d'oc. The most common forms were sirventes (political poems), plancs (dirges), albas (morning songs), pastorals, and Jeux-partis (disputes); the favorite subjects were courtly love, war, and nature."

"...See the Portuguese Man-O-War"

A deadly poisonous sea creature, the Portuguese Man-O-War is not to be messed with: "The man-of-war's body consists of a gas-filled (mostly nitrogen), bladder-like float (a polyp, the pneumatophore) - a translucent structure tinted pink, blue, or violet - which may be 3 to 12 inches (9 to 30 centimeters) long and may extend as much as 6 inches (15 centimeters) above the water.  Beneath the float are clusters of polyps, from which hang tentacles of up to 165 feet (about 50 meters) in length." If you happen to be stung by one of these jelly fish; seek help.

A sting from a Man-O-War can cause cardiac arrest within minutes, "The nematocystic sting toxin secreted from the tentacles of the dactylozooids, a mixture of enzymes, is a neurotoxin about seventy-five percent as powerful as cobra venom." With words like that, you know they mean business.