Take the Wheel

Lyrics

 * 1 "“My love/beloved” in Italian."
 * 2 "Perhaps a reference to the “butterfly effect” in chaos theory?"
 * 3 "I think that this might be a reference to a kind of charm or talisman (縁起物, engimono) called hourai (宝来) that’s supposed to bring one riches over the course of the year. There’s also a type of hourai that’s made out of paper. This one has a picture of a treasure ship with the kanji takara (宝, “treasure”) on the sails. Perhaps this is why there’s a reference to gold (ougon) in an earlier stanza?"
 * 4 "“O sole mio” is the Neapolitan equivalent of standard Italian Il sole mio and translates literally as “my sun” (not “Oh, my sun”)."

Connections

 * The song's melody is extremely similar to that of Black Sabbath's "Supernaut". . Its highly likely that "Supernaut" was one of the five songs from Black Sabbath Vol. 4 that a recently-defined Mandrake covered in about a week in 1973.
 * The song's overall arrangement was reused for "Forces".