Fly These Wings' "Maybe I'm"

A couple days ago, I listened to Fly These Wings' "Maybe I'm."  Like I mentioned a couple months ago, Fly These Wings was a band my cousin was in a year or two ago, so this post is mostly just for my own reference (although there is a video for the song).

I'd previously noticed the phrase "daily bread," and I was pretty sure that this was a reference to the Lord's Prayer and the Sermon on the Mount: "Give us this day our daily bread" (Matthew 6:11).  Listening to it a couple days ago, I noticed the phrase, "for the least of these," which I also found in Ivan & Alyosha's "Drifting Away" a month ago (and wrote about for this project).  Matthew 25 talks about when the King will come again.  He will say to the blessed, "As you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me" (Matthew 25:40), but He will say to the cursed, "As you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to me" (Matthew 25:45).

When I first noticed the "daily bread" phrase, I was wondering if it was intended as a Biblical reference because it seems that "daily bread" has also just become a common phrase.  But since I found "the least of these," which is also from the Bible, I'm more confident that both are intentional Biblical references.

Fly These Wings' "Dark Eyes"

This morning I listened to Fly These Wings' "Dark Eyes."  [Fly These Wings is a band my cousin was in, so I'm not sure how wide an audience this post will have.]  I noticed that it seems to have been inspired by Robert Frost's "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening," which - fortuitously - I just happened to have read this morning (I doubt I would have noticed the similarities otherwise).

The last verse shows Frost's influence the most clearly:

The woods are lovely, oh, so scary, dark and deep
But we've got promises, yeah, I've got promises to keep
The woods are scary, oh, so lovely, dark and deep
But I've got promises, yeah, I've got promises to keep

The first two lines of the last stanza of Frost's poem are:

The woods are lovely, dark, and deep,
But I have promises to keep

Once I found that very obvious similarity, I found a few other phrases in the lyrics that betray Frost's influence.  In "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening," the narrator's horse "gives his harness bells a shake / To ask if there is some mistake."  "Mistake" is also a line-ending word (although not a rhyming one) in "Dark Eyes" - "Yeah, it makes me wonder, makes me wonder if there’s some mistake."

There are also a few lines in "Dark Eyes" that allude to the final repeated line in "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening."  "While we've got many folks we have to meet before you sleep" and "But we've got many miles before we win the human race" expand Frost's "And miles to go before I sleep, / And miles to go before I sleep."