@[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 chair's been kicked, a rope tied to the rafters, blue-faced and broken-necked I die. Relieving my vision from the sick fucking stare of that hated sun burning the sky. Slumped like a headless scarecrow, cold and limp against the wall. Blood paints a pattern of Rorschach design, thawing the winter that burdens this heart.
Shit-stained and shameful, an exit in disgrace. Not a splash but just a ripple left, I end this life in vain.
[Solo]
In the dead of the darkness I breach the still lake, toward the reflection of the moon. The night-colored liquids arresting my lungs, finally at peace in this watery tomb.
Destroy this fragile body to be gorged upon by worms. Not a splash but just a ripple is left in the wake of my merciless scorn.
Beyond those cursed stars above lies the answer that I seek. On the backs of bullets rides my name, longing to kiss my cheek. Resentfully decline, retire this hated life. Without guilt I break these veins, carved with salvation's knife.
[Solo]
Turn not away, avert not your face, this is how it was meant to be. In silence found hanging there 'bove a pool of waste, the beauteous workings of mortality. No one can truly touch another parallel never to cross. Pointless, fumbling, sad mistake only capable of pain.
Beyond those cursed stars above lies the answer that I seek. On the backs of bullets rides my name, longing to kiss my cheek. Resentfully decline, retire this hated life. Without guilt I break these veins, carved with salvation's knife
Shit-stained and shameful, an exit in disgrace. Not a splash but just a ripple left, I end this life in vain.
[Solo]
In the dead of the darkness I breach the still lake, toward the reflection of the moon. The night-colored liquids arresting my lungs, finally at peace in this watery tomb.
Destroy this fragile body to be gorged upon by worms. Not a splash but just a ripple is left in the wake of my merciless scorn.
Beyond those cursed stars above lies the answer that I seek. On the backs of bullets rides my name, longing to kiss my cheek. Resentfully decline, retire this hated life. Without guilt I break these veins, carved with salvation's knife.
[Solo]
Turn not away, avert not your face, this is how it was meant to be. In silence found hanging there 'bove a pool of waste, the beauteous workings of mortality. No one can truly touch another parallel never to cross. Pointless, fumbling, sad mistake only capable of pain.
Beyond those cursed stars above lies the answer that I seek. On the backs of bullets rides my name, longing to kiss my cheek. Resentfully decline, retire this hated life. Without guilt I break these veins, carved with salvation's knife
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It's obviously about suicide. The more important question is whether or not Trevor is trying to make a statement regarding this topic.
I happen to think that pretty much all of the lines represent an internal monologue of various persons either commiting suicide or those who intend to do so.
The protagonist is obviously the guy who hung himself because he is mentioned in the first and third verse. The interesting/weird thing is, that he describes it from a kind of "out of body" - third person - kind of view. As if he had already hung himself and now watches his own body and in the third verse he sees how someone finds his body.
However, there are those two lines that seem to be important and kind of stick out from the rest.
"No one can truly touch another parallel..." "Pointless - fumbling - sad mistake..."
Either Trevor breaks the monologue here and tries to make a statement of his own or this is still the monologue of the guy who hung himself. He seems to regret it in the end 'cos he wasn't able to reach the afterlife(or whatever he hoped for) and now seems to think of the suicide as a "pointless, fumbling and sad mistake".
The chorus of the song is a monologue too and supposedly stands for the thoughts of people thinking about the act of suicide. When you think about it that way, it makes it pretty awesome that Trevor endlessly repeats the chorus at the end of the song until both his voice and the song fades out, 'cos every single one of these chorus blocks could stand for a person who is commiting suicide right now, at this very moment.
This song could have easily been the last song on the album with the dramatic ending it has. I bet they thought about doing it that way, but maybe felt that it would have been too depressive. Instead we got "Warborn" depicting a war scene which was pretty awesome too.
If you take all what I said for granted, you could take this interpretation even further to why they ultimately picked a war scene to end this album....