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The name for the band Our Lady Peacecomes from a 1943 poem titled "Our Lady Peace" by American poet Mark Van Doren. Mark Van Doren is the father of the Charles Van Doren, who was involved in a game show scandal in the 1960's. This incident was the basis of the 1994 movie "Quiz Show".
The poem's message espouses the philosophy that life is about the pursuit of ultimate goals, and not the goal itself.
"We all read it and took something different from it, and that's the sense we want from the music,"
-Mike Turner
"The poem is about a fiddler who talks to
an angel who watches over a little town,"
-Raine Maida
How far it is to peace, the piper sighed,
The solitary, sweating as he paused.
Asphalt the noon; the ravens, terrified,
Fled carrion thunder that percussioin caused.
The envelope of earth was powder loud;
The taut wings shivered, driven at the sun.
The piper put his pipe away and bowed.
Not here, he said. I hunt the love-cool one,
The dancer with the clipped hair. Where is she?
We shook our heads, parting for him to pass.
Our lady was of no such trim degree,
And none of us had seen her face, alas.
She was the very ridges that we must scale,
Securing the rough top. And how she smiled
Was how our strength would issue. Not to fail
Was having her, gigantic, undefiled,
For homely goddess, big as the world that burned,
Grandmother and taskmistress, field and town.
We let the stranger go; but when we turned
Our lady lived, fierce in each other's frown.
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