Yester-day, I listened to the first disc of Zombie Heaven. I rediscovered something I'd noticed before but hadn't written about, so I thought I might as well write about it.
In "Can't Nobody Love You," there's the phrase "apple of my eye," which has Biblical origins. I first thought of Psalm 17:8: "Keep me as the apple of your eye; hide me in the shadow of your wings." But I did some research, and apparently the first instance anywhere is Deuteronomy 32:10, where Moses says, "He found him in a desert land, and in the howling waste of the wilderness; he encircled him, he cared for him, he kept him as the apple of his eye."
The song was written by James Mitchell, so this is kind of a tangential note to the Zombies themselves, but I still felt it worth noting.
