The song uses religious references and imagery for sure. Part of the lyric directly references the African-American spiritual "Ezekiel Saw the Wheel", which has the line "And the big wheel run by Faith, good Lord/And the little wheel run by the Grace of God..". in describing Ezekiel's vision in the Old Testament. But wheel symbols turn up elsewhere, notably in Hinduism and Buddhism, and Hunter seems to be getting at the 'cyclic nature of existence' sort of metaphor from those traditions (e.g., samsara).
The song uses religious references and imagery for sure. Part of the lyric directly references the African-American spiritual "Ezekiel Saw the Wheel", which has the line "And the big wheel run by Faith, good Lord/And the little wheel run by the Grace of God..". in describing Ezekiel's vision in the Old Testament. But wheel symbols turn up elsewhere, notably in Hinduism and Buddhism, and Hunter seems to be getting at the 'cyclic nature of existence' sort of metaphor from those traditions (e.g., samsara).