Naming of The Album
The name of the album came from a romantic rhyme by Edward FitzGerald, translated from the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam:
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- Here with a Loaf of Bread beneath the Bough,
- A Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse - and Thou
- Beside me singing in the Wilderness -
- And Wilderness is Paradise now.
Ali Clewer, the band's drummer, read the poem and believed it corresponded well with the album: "The poem describes a place that is a wilderness becoming paradise because of the person who is keeping you company, " Clewer explained, "a kind of optimism that seemed to resonate with many of the ideas on the album.”
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