@[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.
A change is coming I can sense it now
The weight is lifting and I'm sinking down
Birds are flying in the trees below
The tears are coming, I just let it go
If I could, I'd hold this moment
If I could, I'd make it last
Sometimes life just seems to shatter
Like we're made of glass
Breath on the water, dust in the sand
Make this moment last
Breath on the water, dust in the sand
We're all made of glass
I feel the wonder in my flesh and bones
I feel the hunger, will you take me home
Birds are flying in the trees below
The tears are coming, I just let it go
Sometimes life just seems to shatter
Like we're made of glass
If I could, I'd hold this moment
If I could, I'd make it last
Breath on the water, dust in the sand
Make this moment last
Breath on the water, dust in the sand
We're all made of glass
Made of glass
The weight is lifting and I'm sinking down
Birds are flying in the trees below
The tears are coming, I just let it go
If I could, I'd hold this moment
If I could, I'd make it last
Sometimes life just seems to shatter
Like we're made of glass
Breath on the water, dust in the sand
Make this moment last
Breath on the water, dust in the sand
We're all made of glass
I feel the wonder in my flesh and bones
I feel the hunger, will you take me home
Birds are flying in the trees below
The tears are coming, I just let it go
Sometimes life just seems to shatter
Like we're made of glass
If I could, I'd hold this moment
If I could, I'd make it last
Breath on the water, dust in the sand
Make this moment last
Breath on the water, dust in the sand
We're all made of glass
Made of glass
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Made of Glass Lyrics as written by Andre Tanneberger Heather Nova
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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In my opinion, the song's talking about the Fragility of our human condition, and the Fragility of our world. Birds, trees, ourself: "we're all made of glass", one day, we'll die and will disappear. The "glass", fragile and precious, don't only shows our precariousness, it is also an echo to the "dust in the sand" (glass's made of silica's sand). This sentence reminds me of the famous "dust you are and to dust you will return". In one word: we're mortal, and so vulnerable.
The "breath on the water" reminds me of our origins (first form of life in the water, or for the anti-evolution: the life in the mother's tummy). There's something very deep and somehow mystical in this sentence.
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I'm wondering, maybe it can be the story of a dying love relationship? So, what's your interpretation? (I'm so sorry for the English mistakes, I speak French in fact!)