@[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.
Burnt trees on a snowy pass
All my friends are far behind
I'm stuck with you tonight
But I'd be better alone
So come on wheels take me far away
Where I don't have debts to pay
I can't count on yesterday to find the way home
I know it happens all the time
But they don't have my back
So I'm never looking back
Plumes of smoke rise high above
Burned bridges lost in luck
I guess it's all because
They're found on the fault
On sandy ground
Foundations can't be found
And all the stones of change were thrown in my face
I know it happens all the time
I heard them talk behind my back
So I'm never looking back
All my friends are far behind
I'm stuck with you tonight
But I'd be better alone
So come on wheels take me far away
Where I don't have debts to pay
I can't count on yesterday to find the way home
I know it happens all the time
But they don't have my back
So I'm never looking back
Plumes of smoke rise high above
Burned bridges lost in luck
I guess it's all because
They're found on the fault
On sandy ground
Foundations can't be found
And all the stones of change were thrown in my face
I know it happens all the time
I heard them talk behind my back
So I'm never looking back
Lyrics submitted by islandgirl
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This song was originally written by a guy called Peter Gutteridge. He was one of the founders of the "Dunedin Sound" a musical scene in the south of New Zealand in the early 80s. From there it was covered by "The Clean" one of the early bands of that scene (he had originally been a member of in it's early days, writing a couple of their best early songs). The Dunedin sound, and the Clean became popular on american college radio in the mid to late 80s. I guess Yo La Tengo heard that version.
Great version of a great song,
No Surprises
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Same ideas expressed in Fitter, Happier are expressed in this song. We're told to strive for some sort of ideal life, which includes getting a good job, being kind to everyone, finding a partner, getting married, having a couple kids, living in a quiet neighborhood in a nice big house, etc. But in Fitter, Happier the narrator(?) realizes that it's incredibly robotic to live this life. People are being used by those in power "like a pig in a cage on antibiotics"--being pacified with things like new phones and cool gadgets and houses while being sucked dry. On No Surprises, the narrator is realizing how this life is killing him slowly. In the video, his helmet is slowly filling up with water, drowning him. But he's so complacent with it. This is a good summary of the song. This boring, "perfect" life foisted upon us by some higher powers (not spiritual, but political, economic, etc. politicians and businessmen, perhaps) is not the way to live. But there is seemingly no way out but death. He'd rather die peacefully right now than live in this cage. While our lives are often shielded, we're in our own protective bubbles, or protective helmets like the one Thom wears, if we look a little harder we can see all the corruption, lies, manipulation, etc. that is going on in the world, often run by huge yet nearly invisible organizations, corporations, and 'leaders'. It's a very hopeless song because it reflects real life.
Blue
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Ed Sheeran shares a short story of reconnecting with an old flame on “American Town.” The track is about a holiday Ed Sheeran spends with his countrywoman who resides in America. The two are back together after a long period apart, and get around to enjoying a bunch of fun activities while rekindling the flames of their romance.
I think this is about pushing the past behind and starting life over anew and trying to find a new place with new people.
"So come on wheels take me far away Where I don't have debts to pay I can't count on yesterday to find the way home"
This song is pretty simply saying that one can't look back on the past. They instead must look to the future for everything; happiness, love, friendship, etc.
I think this song is about feeling forced to try to be cooperative and patient with what you have become sick of dealing with to where it's almost impossible to be subordinate. And at an incremental point in your life that your feeling wounded and betrayed.
(Burnt trees on a snowy pass All my friends are far behind I'm stuck with you tonight But I'd be better alone)
This verse he is creating that image driving and using the burnt trees on the snowy pass to represent like a double hit of negativity. Just saying, "this is done for". And left with a situation that is rying to keep him around for a selfish reason that he's dealt with for too long to even want to mess with anymore
So come on wheels take me far away Where I don't have debts to pay I can't count on yesterday to find the way home
(Here I feel he's getting more internal to speak with a different voice than in the first verse, like the dreamer inside saying "oh what a day it would be to find something else", saying he would be fine with losing a past he once used as a crutch to get away from what is keeping him around)
I know it happens all the time But they don't have my back So I'm never looking back
(Realizing its not an ucommon situation, and I think the guy feels a bit stupid for not seeing it was a bad choice in the first place)
Plumes of smoke rise high above Burned bridges lost in luck I guess it's all because They're found on the fault
(Here, I think he is saying he has burnt bridges, but they are found on a pre-existing fault, like faults in the earths crust, that break on their own. The grounds he walked on were broken to begin with, so burning the bridges to those grounds is not a loss to him. I think the luck he talks about here is saying the fact that hes burnt the bridges is a lucky way out for him)
On sandy ground Foundations can't be found And all the stones of change were thrown in my face
(Here I feel he's saying that when your in a difficult place, and also in a difficult situation, and all at the same time you are expected to change in so many ways, it 's impossible to recreate yourself)
I know it happens all the time I heard them talk behind my back So I'm never looking back
(Saying the same as the first verse, and then he hits that sick ass harp solo)
A song written by someone who has been let down by people he trusted. He's trying to work through feelings of betrayal and abandonment.
He's sorting through what he's learned from the experience. Talking about the idea that it's just impossible to build foundations on sandy ground gives him some perspective. People just are what they are.
There are some unresolved feelings of bitterness that are coming through, but he's moving on. Somewhere is a future where he can start over with new horizons to explore.