The WELL: deadsongs.vue.223: The Wheel

#26: Tom White (tomwhite56) Fri 10 Sep 10 13:31

Fri, 10 Sep 2010 13:31:00 PDT

Heck, it could even be the red red robin that came bob bob bobbin along. [Read entire topic]

#25: David Gans (tnf) Fri 3 Sep 10 09:29

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 09:29:00 PDT

Hunter being something of an Anglophile, I'd say we can't rule that out. And yet... [Read entire topic]

#24: Robin Russell (rrussell8) Fri 3 Sep 10 05:41

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 05:41:00 PDT

Might even be Robin, Duke of Bedford. [Read entire topic]

#23: David Dodd (ddodd) Thu 2 Sep 10 12:59

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 12:59:00 PDT

Hood? Sylvester? Roberts? [Read entire topic]

#22: Robin Russell (rrussell8) Thu 2 Sep 10 07:33

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 07:33:00 PDT

Robin could also be a specific person ... [Read entire topic]

#21: Tom White (tomwhite56) Tue 17 Aug 10 09:24

Tue, 17 Aug 2010 09:24:00 PDT

And BTW Mr. Gans, it's nice to meet you! [Read entire topic]

#20: Tom White (tomwhite56) Tue 17 Aug 10 09:18

Tue, 17 Aug 2010 09:18:00 PDT

Actually, Mr. Gans, same difference. You said more succinctly what I was trying to say. [Read entire topic]

#19: Tom White (tomwhite56) Tue 17 Aug 10 09:17

Tue, 17 Aug 2010 09:17:00 PDT

"Robin" is a reference to "round robin", the idea of beginning in one place, going around in a circle -- as in a round robin discussion -- and coming back to the beginning. Continuance of the idea that life is a cosmic circle, that the end of the journey is its beginning, perhaps even that no matter what the journey you are still the same.

Try looking at it this way:

Round, round, robin run around Round round robin run around Round...etc.

Also the robin reference may be tied to the circle of life, the robin (bird's) existence in the round of the seasons, raising the robin family, sending the kids off, surviving the winter, back into spring...

These things are only partially thought out in advance, I'm sure. The ideas pour out through the pen, when the writer is in the creative flow...which is in itself riding a wheel...you write a song, you finish the song, you write another (calling to mind another band's "Run, rabbit run..." [Read entire topic]

#18: David Gans (tnf) Tue 17 Aug 10 09:13

Tue, 17 Aug 2010 09:13:00 PDT

No, it's "small wheel turn by the fire and rod," as in an internal-combustion engine. [Read entire topic]

#17: Tom White (tomwhite56) Tue 17 Aug 10 09:04

Tue, 17 Aug 2010 09:04:00 PDT

The lyric is "Small wheel turning by the firing rod", in other words, the mechanical world, man's little works, being run by the creation of man, the engine, whereas the big stuff is being turned by the hand (grace) of God. [Read entire topic]