@[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.
I've got a friend
Who I've known since I was seven
We used to talk on that phone
If we have time, if it's the right time
Accompany me
By the kitchen sink
We talk about love
We talk about dishwater tablets, illness
And we dream about heaven
I know it
I think I know it from a hymn, ah
They said so
It doesn't need no explanation, oh
Or a box to open up with light and sound
Making you cold, very cold
I leave home at seven
Under a heavy sky
I ride my bike up
I ride my bike down
November smoke
And your toes cold now
A new color on the globe
It goes from white to red
A little voice in my head said so
I know it
I think I know it from a hymn, ah
They said so
It doesn't need no explanation, oh
Or a box to open up with light and sound
And if you don't, you're on your own
I know it
I think I know it from a hymn, ah
They said so
It doesn't need no explanation, oh
Or a box to open up with light and sound
Making you cold, very cold
Who I've known since I was seven
We used to talk on that phone
If we have time, if it's the right time
Accompany me
By the kitchen sink
We talk about love
We talk about dishwater tablets, illness
And we dream about heaven
I know it
I think I know it from a hymn, ah
They said so
It doesn't need no explanation, oh
Or a box to open up with light and sound
Making you cold, very cold
I leave home at seven
Under a heavy sky
I ride my bike up
I ride my bike down
November smoke
And your toes cold now
A new color on the globe
It goes from white to red
A little voice in my head said so
I know it
I think I know it from a hymn, ah
They said so
It doesn't need no explanation, oh
Or a box to open up with light and sound
And if you don't, you're on your own
I know it
I think I know it from a hymn, ah
They said so
It doesn't need no explanation, oh
Or a box to open up with light and sound
Making you cold, very cold
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(I've got a friend who i've known since i was seven we used to talk on that phone if we have time if it's the right time)
She talks about a friend from her childhood, who the best friend she ever had…that’s why she remembers him now that she is old.
(accompany me by the kitchen sink we talk about love we talk about dishwater tablets and we dream about heaven)
they used to talk about a wide range of everyday subjects, but also they discussed more complicated issues like love or life after death…they apparently communicated very well and they passed a lot of time together.
(i know it i think i know it from a heaven they said so it doesn't need no explanation or a box to open up with light and sound making you cold very cold)
she knows IT! She knows IT, because she simple feels it. It cannot be proved or seen, but she senses its presence, its existence. It’s something metaphysical. She doesn’t even need to open the music box which she had from the age of 7 and which brings her memories from the past…memories related to the friend who is now lost…who probably gave her the box. The box closed since her childhood…it stayed closed when her friend was lost...closed like his coffin.
(i leave home at seven under a heavy sky i ride my bike up i ride my bike down)
a day, when she was 7 she left home for a bike ride with her friend. Something happened and the day died that day,,, maybe an accident, who knows? It’s a secret…we’ ll never learn.
(november smoke and your toes cold now) It’s November now, the month when he died. His toes are cold…cause he’ snot alive. But the whole atmosphere…the smoke…the month…reminds him. The atmosphere is sooo metaphysical…Does he calls her? Is that a dream?
(it goes from white to red a little voice in my head said so)
Something from the past slightly tells her what she now admits…white turns to red…that’s it! It can happen!
(i know it i think i know it from a heaven they said so it doesn't need no explanation or a box to open up with light and sound and if you don't you'll run your own)
She knows he is not lost, she knows that in a mysterious way life doen’t ends. She knows it from a hymn, it doesn’t need no explanation…she just experiences it, she feels it. She doesn’t even need a thing to remind her what she now senses. If she rejects it, she will feel empty…and therefore alone!
(i know it i think i know it from a heaven they said so it doesn't need no explanation or a box to open up with light and sound making you cold very cold)
in a nutshell she experiences a communication with a ghost...it takes place now that she is old...and more wise...wise like a child!
Your interpretation is simply astounding.<br /> I was interpreting this, but couldn't understand some of the stuff. Was close to what you have here, but missed some things that would let me connect the dots.<br /> Thanks to you, I finally feel I understand this song.