@[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.
Summer 1988
Never though you'd graduate
Playin with your guns all day
If only they could see you now
And how you've learned to shoot so well
They wouldn't talk that way
[Chorus:]
Wayne, you know it's true
There's nothing you can do
So put those guns away
Who cares it's wrong or right
So please give up the fight
And put those guns away
All of your freinds are through
They've given up what they tried to do
See now how happy they are
Each with a new lease on life
A brand new car and a milage wife
Doo doo doo doooo doo doo...
Never though you'd graduate
Playin with your guns all day
If only they could see you now
And how you've learned to shoot so well
They wouldn't talk that way
[Chorus:]
Wayne, you know it's true
There's nothing you can do
So put those guns away
Who cares it's wrong or right
So please give up the fight
And put those guns away
All of your freinds are through
They've given up what they tried to do
See now how happy they are
Each with a new lease on life
A brand new car and a milage wife
Doo doo doo doooo doo doo...
Lyrics submitted by WeezerChic
Lullaby for Wayne Lyrics as written by Rivers Cuomo Patrick Wilson
Lyrics © E O Smith Music, FIE
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I don't think this song has anything to do with guns or shooting. I think the gun imagery is a metaphor for being a "straight shooter" and being a "cowboy" in the sense that Wayne isn't following the same path as the people around him - I imagine him as either an introverted, quirky guy that people obviously don't get or a guy that parties too much and has no prospects in life. In the end, though, this works out for him.
I think this is outlined by the verse "Put down them guns and fall into line," which, to me, means stop being a "cowboy" and start being like everyone else around you.
The lines "All of your friends are through; They’ve given up what they tried to do" show how the people around Wayne don't understand the path he has chosen and are giving up on trying to "save" him.
Finally, the lines "How you’ve learned to shoot so well; They wouldn’t laugh that way" outline that, in the end, the path Wayne took worked out for him. He's a "straight shooter" now.