@[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.
Sleep long, sleep well
Only to awake in Hell
Sleep long, sleep well, sleep well
Only to awaken in Hell
One day I saw a man asleep
In a doorway on the street
Walls of sheltered inhibition
I perceived his condition
Dying of hunger and exposure
Food and shelter two blocks over
Within this place we breed and dwell
We've created living Hell
Sleep long, sleep well
Only to awaken in Hell
Let's go!
Sleep long, sleep well
Only to awaken in Hell
City sleeps and pigeons flutter
Vagrant dies in the gutter
Prideless death somehow befitting
Life spent working on forgetting
Riding on the bus, I looked outside and thought about death
Passing cars the only tribute to his gasping, final breath
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Sleep, sleep long, sleep well, sleep well
Only to awaken in Hell
Sleep long, sleep well, sleep well
Only to awaken in Hell
Let's go
Yeah
Then I went home
To get my mind off things, I decided to watch television
Constant subliminal brain immersion
Subconscious death wish coercion
Buy and consume and want and need
Never fall from the trap of greed
Listen up
Sleep long
Sleep long, sleep well
Thought about the bitter pain
Of jail cells and falling rain
Thought ahead and looked away
What can you do, anyway?
Sheltered youth and our pretension
Avert our eyes to divert attention
Only to see the advertisement
Always there to remind us
Sleep long, sleep well
Only to awaken in Hell
Sleep long, sleep well
Only to awaken in Hell
Only to awaken in Hell
Only to awake in Hell
Sleep long, sleep well, sleep well
Only to awaken in Hell
One day I saw a man asleep
In a doorway on the street
Walls of sheltered inhibition
I perceived his condition
Dying of hunger and exposure
Food and shelter two blocks over
Within this place we breed and dwell
We've created living Hell
Sleep long, sleep well
Only to awaken in Hell
Let's go!
Sleep long, sleep well
Only to awaken in Hell
City sleeps and pigeons flutter
Vagrant dies in the gutter
Prideless death somehow befitting
Life spent working on forgetting
Riding on the bus, I looked outside and thought about death
Passing cars the only tribute to his gasping, final breath
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Operation Ivy
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Sleep, sleep long, sleep well, sleep well
Only to awaken in Hell
Sleep long, sleep well, sleep well
Only to awaken in Hell
Let's go
Yeah
Then I went home
To get my mind off things, I decided to watch television
Constant subliminal brain immersion
Subconscious death wish coercion
Buy and consume and want and need
Never fall from the trap of greed
Listen up
Sleep long
Sleep long, sleep well
Thought about the bitter pain
Of jail cells and falling rain
Thought ahead and looked away
What can you do, anyway?
Sheltered youth and our pretension
Avert our eyes to divert attention
Only to see the advertisement
Always there to remind us
Sleep long, sleep well
Only to awaken in Hell
Sleep long, sleep well
Only to awaken in Hell
Only to awaken in Hell
Lyrics submitted by emoJustin, edited by mlg1006347
Sleep Long Lyrics as written by Jesse Michaels David M Mello
Lyrics © Wixen Music Publishing
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