xleechy July 30th, 2005 07:42PM  
This song is about an actual creek that runs down by the Susquennha River, on the Mason-Dixon Line, me and my friends frequently visit it. It is really about how people have hurt themselves jumping in Otter Creek, because there are signs posted everywhere that warn no swimming.

anonymous April 6th, 2006 10:03PM  
I believe this song is about our grief about death and our attachment to the past. The opening lyrics show this 'when all that's left to do, is reflect on what's been done...this is where sadness breaths'. The reference to the dam at otter creek means we build our attachment to the past and we can become trapped in grief ('deep enough to dive'). The line 'we took the dead man in sheets to the river flanked by love, deep enough to dive' again refers to our grief about death.

The second verse refers to us leaving this grief and attachment 'leave the hearse behind...leave the curse behind'. leaving the hearse, or our attachment to the past frees us from the grief of death.

the final line refers to the more bhuddist ideal of living now instead of living in the past

anonymous December 31st, 2009 01:58AM  
The real story......ed and friends used to dam up otter creek and dive into it. They were asked repeatedly not to do this by park management. A friend of theirs fell and got very very hurt. It was all over the news in York. This was before they were famous