New Orleans is an emotionally charged duet between FREAK13's Todd Sonnier and Ravenica Rose.
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Story behind the song
This song is about a man walking the streets of New Orleans who meets a "gray lady", a type of ghost of a woman who was murdered. He falls in love with the ghost and has to decide between staying in this world and going to hers.
Lyrics
Her passion lingers in dark lucidity
The cold wind whispers signaling to me
To walk in shadows outside the city lights
Down by the river, where she lost her life
Gray lady crying, I can taste her tears
Her flesh inviting, me to exit here
To leave this world would be to have her love
A price worth paying that I am sure of
Come with me now and you will see, the beauty here in darkness with me. We'll become as one and give our souls. That's all we have in the deep unknown. We'll walk the streets as lovers do but no one can see the ghosts of me and you.
The lights are fading my eyes begin to close
Out in the distance I hear the sound of those
Who'll never love like my lady and I do
Down in New Orleans where the spirits sing the blues
CHORUS
New Orleans
By the River's Edge
New Orleans