@[Diderik:33655] "Your a holiday!" Was a popular term used in the 50s/60s to compliment someone on their all around. For example, not only are they beautiful, but they are fun and kind too ... just an all around "holiday".
I think your first comment is closer to being accurate. The singer/song writers state "Millions of eyes can see, yet why am i so blind!? When the someone else is me, its unkind its unkind". I believe hes referring to the girl toying with him and using him. He wants something deeper with her, thats why he allows himself to be as a puppet (even though for her fun and games) as long as it makes her happy. But he knows deep down that she doesnt really want to be serious with him and thats what makes him.
"Behold a jocund morn indeed! -
Sun on high - birds in sky.
Yonder the whist firth eathing,
Fro where a gale erranteth."
"Ye beholdest but the shadow.
Mayhap a tithe of trothplight -
I deem - e'er and anon!"
"To and fro, save hither,
Is thy love."
"Not a loth! -
But vying for my kinsmen!"
"Beautiful tyrant!
Fiend Angelica!
Dove-feathered raven!
Woluish-ravening lamb!
A hamlet for a slothful vassal -
Soothing ale for a parched sot.
Hie to tell me
What ye judgest as naught
I behold the shadow!"
"E'er thou sayest aye!
Thief of a plot!
Now go to thy tryst!
Go, leave, totter! -
Until ye dwindlest.
A morsel, nay more,
For thy journey
Hither and thither!"
"That is a lie!
Lief I am not!
My words are but a twist
Fare well! - with jiy I came,
With rue I leave.
Even the orb cannot.
Help me melt the ice?"
"That is a lie!
Lief I am not!
My words are but a twist
Tis a feigned lie through loathing,
I say!"
"A dotard gaffer, I daresay..."
"...a sapling not!"
"Wherefore call me such names;
Nay imp am I!
Thou art my aghast hart -
Gazing in the glade."
Sun on high - birds in sky.
Yonder the whist firth eathing,
Fro where a gale erranteth."
"Ye beholdest but the shadow.
Mayhap a tithe of trothplight -
I deem - e'er and anon!"
"To and fro, save hither,
Is thy love."
"Not a loth! -
But vying for my kinsmen!"
"Beautiful tyrant!
Fiend Angelica!
Dove-feathered raven!
Woluish-ravening lamb!
A hamlet for a slothful vassal -
Soothing ale for a parched sot.
Hie to tell me
What ye judgest as naught
I behold the shadow!"
"E'er thou sayest aye!
Thief of a plot!
Now go to thy tryst!
Go, leave, totter! -
Until ye dwindlest.
A morsel, nay more,
For thy journey
Hither and thither!"
"That is a lie!
Lief I am not!
My words are but a twist
Fare well! - with jiy I came,
With rue I leave.
Even the orb cannot.
Help me melt the ice?"
"That is a lie!
Lief I am not!
My words are but a twist
Tis a feigned lie through loathing,
I say!"
"A dotard gaffer, I daresay..."
"...a sapling not!"
"Wherefore call me such names;
Nay imp am I!
Thou art my aghast hart -
Gazing in the glade."
Lyrics submitted by TheUnholyMaster, edited by 2megatherion
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