<P> Variations of the phrase also appear in pop music . The Mission recorded a track entitled "Butterfly on a Wheel" for their album Carved in Sand changing the quote slightly to "Love breaks the wings of a butterfly on a wheel ." The hard rock song "Soul Asylum" from The Cult's Sonic Temple album opens with the line "Who would break a butterfly on a wheel?". Coldplay rephrased the quote as "The wheel breaks the butterfly" in their 2011 single "Paradise". Oasis also made a reference to the line with the lyric "Catch the wheel that breaks the butterfly", in their song "Falling Down". In 2013 the Scottish band Biffy Clyro released a B - side entitled "Break A Butterfly On A Wheel" on their single "Victory Over The Sun". </P> <P> A film titled Butterfly on a Wheel was released in 2007 . In the USA the title of the movie was changed to Shattered . </P>

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