@[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.
Maybe you're right
those steps behind
start and stop as you do
Hiding out of light
irises
reset as you move
Maybe in the
bank they're watching
At your job they're watching
Television's watching
what your clone is watching
It's a blunt set up
under Caesar's lens
and the beast is watching Everything
Maybe you weren't off
when you said
We're just slaving for the man
Bred in martial law,
veiled in plastic thought
of a secret means to ends
Maybe big
brother is watching
big brother is watching
big brother is watching
big brother is watching
big brother is watching
big brother is watching
big brother is watching
Let 'em watch!!
What are you gonna
sit around and worry?
Chewing your life to its tomb
What have you
given up on freedom
before they've taken it from you?
You're un
happy and losing your mind
You're naked
weeping in the mall
Shiveringly asking, "Why is
Everyone looking at me?!"
Arriving just in time
Here's the men in white
blurried through your tears then you
Roll off to rubber rooms
With doctors watching
and the cameras watching
and he watched all watching!
Even if the eye
on pyramids
Is keeping track of
Your every move
You can't contain your thoughts,
they're all you've got
Just go and do what you do!
So what if big brother is watching
big brother is watching
big brother is watching
big brother is watching
big brother is watching
big brother is watching
big brother is watching
Let 'em watch!
those steps behind
start and stop as you do
Hiding out of light
irises
reset as you move
Maybe in the
bank they're watching
At your job they're watching
Television's watching
what your clone is watching
It's a blunt set up
under Caesar's lens
and the beast is watching Everything
Maybe you weren't off
when you said
We're just slaving for the man
Bred in martial law,
veiled in plastic thought
of a secret means to ends
Maybe big
brother is watching
big brother is watching
big brother is watching
big brother is watching
big brother is watching
big brother is watching
big brother is watching
Let 'em watch!!
What are you gonna
sit around and worry?
Chewing your life to its tomb
What have you
given up on freedom
before they've taken it from you?
You're un
happy and losing your mind
You're naked
weeping in the mall
Shiveringly asking, "Why is
Everyone looking at me?!"
Arriving just in time
Here's the men in white
blurried through your tears then you
Roll off to rubber rooms
With doctors watching
and the cameras watching
and he watched all watching!
Even if the eye
on pyramids
Is keeping track of
Your every move
You can't contain your thoughts,
they're all you've got
Just go and do what you do!
So what if big brother is watching
big brother is watching
big brother is watching
big brother is watching
big brother is watching
big brother is watching
big brother is watching
Let 'em watch!
Lyrics submitted by Tokabi
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