@[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.
Come let us make bricks and burn them hard
We'll build a city with a tower for the world
And climb so we can reach anything we may propose
Anything at all
Build me up, tear me down like a skyscraper
Build me up, then tear down these joining walls
So they can't climb at all
I know why you tore it down that day
You thought, that if you got caught we'd all go away
Like a spoiled little baby who can't come out and play
You had your revenge
Build me up, tear me down like a skyscraper
Build me up, then tear down these joining walls
So they can't climb at all
Well, madness reigned, the paradise drowned
When Babel's walls came crashing down
Now the echoes roar for story read that was hardly understood
And never any good
Build me up, tear me down like a skyscraper
Build me up, then tear down these joining walls
So they can't climb at all
Build me up
Build me up
We'll build a city with a tower for the world
And climb so we can reach anything we may propose
Anything at all
Build me up, tear me down like a skyscraper
Build me up, then tear down these joining walls
So they can't climb at all
I know why you tore it down that day
You thought, that if you got caught we'd all go away
Like a spoiled little baby who can't come out and play
You had your revenge
Build me up, tear me down like a skyscraper
Build me up, then tear down these joining walls
So they can't climb at all
Well, madness reigned, the paradise drowned
When Babel's walls came crashing down
Now the echoes roar for story read that was hardly understood
And never any good
Build me up, tear me down like a skyscraper
Build me up, then tear down these joining walls
So they can't climb at all
Build me up
Build me up
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I think he's tlaking about the story of the tower of Babel. For those unfamiliar with the story, people came together and tried to build a tower that lead straight to heaven so that the people could be closer to God. God didnt want this, so while they were building he made everyone speak a different language so that they couldn't communicate with each other and finish the tower. What a great God, eh? That's what Greg is trying to say(in my opinion).