The Rose of Rouen would northern lords over-run the south, but more, that "they would then live in it and take what they needed including wives and daughters." This is the fate, says the poem, that Edward of York saved England from. Like other political poetry of the period, it is careful to identify its protagonists by their cognizances rather than naming them: Edward, of course, is a white rose, his father Richard of York, Duke of York, is a falcon and fetterlock, Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick a ragged staff, his uncle William Neville, Lord Fauconberg a fish hook, and John Mowbray, Duke
Of the Blue Colour of the Sky in producer Dave Fridmann's Tarbox Road Studios, a converted Amish barn in Cassadaga, New York, through May the following year. Bassist Tim Nordwind described the process of the studio sessions as a midpoint between the slick production work done on "OK Go" and the emphasis on live takes with the recording of "Oh No". "Of the Blue Colour of the Sky"'s accompanying booklet presents the album as a concept based on an unnamed passage from "The Influence of the Blue Ray of the Sunlight and of the Blue Colour of the Sky" by General A.J. Pleasonton. The title of this