@[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.
Corporate or colonial
The movement is unstoppable
Like the body of a centerfold it spreads
To the counter-culture copyright
Get your revolution at a lower price
Or make believe and throw the fight, play dead
It's exploding bags, aerosol cans
Southbound buses, Peter Pan
They left it up to us again
I thought you knew the drill
It's kill or be killed
Future markets, Holy wars
Been tried ten thousand times before
If you think God is keeping score, hooray (victory, a defeat)
For the freedom-fighting simulcast (victory)
The imminent and the aftermath
Draw another bloody bath to drain (oh, Allah, oh Jesus, please)
Like the polar ice caps centrifuge
First snowman built at the end of June
He slicks his hair for the interview
His fifteen-minute fame
Can we agree times have changed?
The movement is unstoppable
Like the body of a centerfold it spreads
To the counter-culture copyright
Get your revolution at a lower price
Or make believe and throw the fight, play dead
It's exploding bags, aerosol cans
Southbound buses, Peter Pan
They left it up to us again
I thought you knew the drill
It's kill or be killed
Future markets, Holy wars
Been tried ten thousand times before
If you think God is keeping score, hooray (victory, a defeat)
For the freedom-fighting simulcast (victory)
The imminent and the aftermath
Draw another bloody bath to drain (oh, Allah, oh Jesus, please)
Like the polar ice caps centrifuge
First snowman built at the end of June
He slicks his hair for the interview
His fifteen-minute fame
Can we agree times have changed?
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