The famous smirk sported by George Bush — usually at times when he shouldn’t be smiling — inspired a track off Our Lady Peace’s latest album, “Healthy In Paranoid Times.”

The song is appropriately titled, “Wipe that Smile off Your Face.”

“George Bush was definitely a launch pad for it. That’s for sure,” Our Lady Peace guitarist Steve Mazur told andPOP recently.

“It’s not just an anti-Bush song. That would be a big part of it. But you can also interpret it as anybody who lies to your face and does it with a smile or a smirk, which politicians have done to us a lot of times. A lot of different people in your life may do that to you. It’s more of that whole context.”

Mazur says that when it comes to political songs like this, the band is lucky because they all are usually on the same page.

“Being in a band is like a marriage, a friendship and a business partnership; it’s everything. You have to live together on a bus so if people have different views, it’s going to be really magnified.”

The album, the band’s sixth studio offering, was released at the end of August.






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