@[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.
You loved it when my heart dropped
You paused, stopped, and walked away
Full of content
That it went
Your way
These cuts
That I've caused
Are never to deep to heal
Peel back the bandage
See a scar
From countless careless things
Feel yourself drifting
Pulled away
Well nothing feels real anymore
I'm not taking my time anymore
To show you how I feel
To show you who I am
'Cause it's locked away
We all need to find our way
Cut the loss
Just walk away
Now head towards the light
The dark has no place here
Now head towards the light
The dark has no place here
I don't feel real
I don't feel real
This pain is beating
I don't feel real
I don't feel real
Well nothing feels real anymore
I'm not taking my time anymore
Now head towards the light
The dark has no place here
Now head towards the light
The dark has no place here
Well nothing feels real anymore
I'm not taking my time anymore
To show you how I feel
To show you who I am
'Cause it's locked away
The things we think about at night
Never lose taste
Now take the close to find something greater
This wall has finally reached its end
Its higher ground
Lets make a stand
Did you ever think we would get this high
Pull back the sheets
To find a ending
That you prayed for
Now head towards the light
The dark has no place here
Now head towards the light
You paused, stopped, and walked away
Full of content
That it went
Your way
These cuts
That I've caused
Are never to deep to heal
Peel back the bandage
See a scar
From countless careless things
Feel yourself drifting
Pulled away
Well nothing feels real anymore
I'm not taking my time anymore
To show you how I feel
To show you who I am
'Cause it's locked away
We all need to find our way
Cut the loss
Just walk away
Now head towards the light
The dark has no place here
Now head towards the light
The dark has no place here
I don't feel real
I don't feel real
This pain is beating
I don't feel real
I don't feel real
Well nothing feels real anymore
I'm not taking my time anymore
Now head towards the light
The dark has no place here
Now head towards the light
The dark has no place here
Well nothing feels real anymore
I'm not taking my time anymore
To show you how I feel
To show you who I am
'Cause it's locked away
The things we think about at night
Never lose taste
Now take the close to find something greater
This wall has finally reached its end
Its higher ground
Lets make a stand
Did you ever think we would get this high
Pull back the sheets
To find a ending
That you prayed for
Now head towards the light
The dark has no place here
Now head towards the light
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Heads or Tails? Real or Not Lyrics as written by Ernest White Brian Mcternan
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Bound by the satisfaction of having the upper hand in the relationship, his significant other left him thinking that the scars she gave him would stay with him for the rest of his life.
He tells himself that the scars, the impact she had on his life was his own careless doing, and that nothing could not be replaced or healed.
But then he sees that she was making no bluff, and she really started to leave his life, drift away. He spent so much time trying to show her who he was, and he never wanted to more than now.
Everything he fought for in life has become latent and tasteless. He gives up on trying to show her everything he cared about and encourages himself to move on.
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Still, he cuts his losses and moves on. He realizes his scares may or may not go away, and all he has left to do is move on.
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I think this is a great message, I really connect to it and I think it is a very mature perspective on dealing with lost love. Obviously, his words put everything much more in tune with the way things actually are. I don't think a lot of these things can be explained, only known, experienced, or felt.
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