@[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.
I've seen you in my face as I've aged.
You beautiful fuck up, so casually brave.
It made me less lonely, it helped me.
The conventions that broke your nose
I find quaint. I look for you in crowds now that I don't know where you are,
as I'm pilled to the gills,
prowling through bars.
You are missed, missed,
missed as the men of The Bismarck.
I hope you know that you are.
Let us now speak of brave men
who lived their lives just as they would have it.
I would give my last dollar away
just to hang out with you one more day.
We've got a country between us and our age.
We've got a different set of vices but all
the rage. It made me less lonely, and it
helped me when conventions that broke your nose hit me. Can't pretend to know
how you had it, the past's prejudices are just that.
I want you to know that it mattered
that you walked the walk and talked the talk. You talked the talk and fought the...
Let us now speak of brave men who lived their lives just as they would have it.
As you like it.
You beautiful fuck up, so casually brave.
It made me less lonely, it helped me.
The conventions that broke your nose
I find quaint. I look for you in crowds now that I don't know where you are,
as I'm pilled to the gills,
prowling through bars.
You are missed, missed,
missed as the men of The Bismarck.
I hope you know that you are.
Let us now speak of brave men
who lived their lives just as they would have it.
I would give my last dollar away
just to hang out with you one more day.
We've got a country between us and our age.
We've got a different set of vices but all
the rage. It made me less lonely, and it
helped me when conventions that broke your nose hit me. Can't pretend to know
how you had it, the past's prejudices are just that.
I want you to know that it mattered
that you walked the walk and talked the talk. You talked the talk and fought the...
Let us now speak of brave men who lived their lives just as they would have it.
As you like it.
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