"Veteran Cosmic Rocker"

Last week I listened to Long Distance Voyager and noticed a small thing about "Veteran Cosmic Rocker."  Near the end of the song, there's the line "He's the apple of their eye," which borrows a phrase from the Bible.  Apparently the first instance 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," but Psalm 17:8 is probably more well-known:  "Keep me as the apple of your eye; hide me in the shadow of your wings."