<P> The lyrics are included in the song "Final Breath" by the post rock band Pelican on their album What We All Come to Need . </P> <P> Moscow - based art - rock band "Red Red Rose" derives its name from the poem and has a song called "RRR" inspired by the poem . </P> <P> When asked for the source of his greatest creative inspiration, American singer songwriter Bob Dylan selected Burns' 1794 song A Red, Red Rose, as the lyrics that have had the biggest effect on his life . </P> <P> The song is highly evocative, including lines describing rocks melting with the sun, and the seas running dry . Burns may have been inspired by the concept of deep time put forward a few years earlier by geologist James Hutton in his Theory of the Earth in 1789 . Hutton and Burns were contemporaries, and would have mixed in similar circles in Edinburgh . </P>

Robbie burns love is like a red red rose