@[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.
The best years of his life is what he gave to you
Never late a day, he's been faithful and so true
Putting out the tombstones and digging down the graves
For over thirty years now and I can't believe that you have the nerve to say
That now you're gonna have to cut his pay
'Cause one of your priests did such an awful thing
Lightning bolt, oh lightning bolt, why won't you strike them down?
For what they did they deserve to be a black spot on the ground
And if there is a god living up there in the clouds
I can't imagine a better time to show his wrath than now
Somehow these monsters all seem higher than the law
They're not gonna see any punishment at all
He didn't give a damn about your god or your church
He was just an honest man looking for some honest work
And in his little finger he's got more purity
Than a whole church load full of your child molesting priests
It seems that you're making him pay for the guilty sins
Thirty years and that's the thanks he gets
Well it's hard to imagine there could be a greater sin
Than using your trust for abusing a kid
As hard as it may seem, well I think that there is
And you're committing it by protecting these old evil men
And if there really is a Judgement Day
You'll have a whole lot to explain
Never late a day, he's been faithful and so true
Putting out the tombstones and digging down the graves
For over thirty years now and I can't believe that you have the nerve to say
That now you're gonna have to cut his pay
'Cause one of your priests did such an awful thing
Lightning bolt, oh lightning bolt, why won't you strike them down?
For what they did they deserve to be a black spot on the ground
And if there is a god living up there in the clouds
I can't imagine a better time to show his wrath than now
Somehow these monsters all seem higher than the law
They're not gonna see any punishment at all
He didn't give a damn about your god or your church
He was just an honest man looking for some honest work
And in his little finger he's got more purity
Than a whole church load full of your child molesting priests
It seems that you're making him pay for the guilty sins
Thirty years and that's the thanks he gets
Well it's hard to imagine there could be a greater sin
Than using your trust for abusing a kid
As hard as it may seem, well I think that there is
And you're committing it by protecting these old evil men
And if there really is a Judgement Day
You'll have a whole lot to explain
Lyrics submitted by xxxmatt, edited by communism12
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this isn't ghost mice... this is Andrew Jackson Jihad from a ghost mice, jihad split
awww an avid ghost mice/andrew band liker
na, it is ghost mice, ajj just covered it. so really not that avid...
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