Glad to see I've not been the only one puzzled by this song all these years. But
then on the other hand, I was reading this thread hoping some die-hard would have had
the definitive explanation of this classic.
It would probably be the one song I would like to question the man about, if I could. (That, and "Marie Christine"--still wanna know what that one was based on!)
The one alteration I'd offer, is the allusion
of the roulette wheel. My hunch is that he's referencing a 'wheel of fortune' (no, not the game show), the "great big wheel" that stands vertically (as opposed to a much smaller, horizontal table-top roulette wheel), the kind with the loud clacking steel pins all around, that when spinning might cause light from overhead to be "flickering down".
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