@[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.
Oh my mistletoe called me up on the phone,
tried her best to explain to the hearts that she had known
that though they'd misbehaved, she'd known it all along.
No need to feel ashamed, we didn't do nothing wrong.
And she said:
"I wanted you to know, I believe in the end out of love truth grows
and if I'm to be alone then I'll be alone but don't look at me
like another lost soul."
Covers her hands with rings, twenty little semi-precious things
each one for a heart she'd stole from her years out on the road.
She talks with the knowledge that she paved her own rocky path
and that the past is past, ain't nothing you can do about that.
And she said:
"I wanted you to know, I believe in the end out of love truth grows
and if I'm to be alone then I'll be alone but don't look at me
like another lost soul."
And if all our time
if it turns out to be lies
I'll go back home
to the people that knew me before I was old and grown.
Oh my mistletoe called me up on the phone,
tried her best to explain to the hearts that she had known
that though they'd misbehaved, she'd known it all along.
No need to feel ashamed, we didn't do nothing wrong.
And she said:
"I wanted you to know, I believe in the end out of love truth grows
and if I'm to be alone then I'll be alone but don't look at me
like another lost soul."
"Cause I believe in the end out of love truth grows
and if I'm to be alone then I'll be alone but don't look at me
like another lost soul."
"And if I'm to be alone then I'll be alone but don't look at me
like another lost soul."
tried her best to explain to the hearts that she had known
that though they'd misbehaved, she'd known it all along.
No need to feel ashamed, we didn't do nothing wrong.
And she said:
"I wanted you to know, I believe in the end out of love truth grows
and if I'm to be alone then I'll be alone but don't look at me
like another lost soul."
Covers her hands with rings, twenty little semi-precious things
each one for a heart she'd stole from her years out on the road.
She talks with the knowledge that she paved her own rocky path
and that the past is past, ain't nothing you can do about that.
And she said:
"I wanted you to know, I believe in the end out of love truth grows
and if I'm to be alone then I'll be alone but don't look at me
like another lost soul."
And if all our time
if it turns out to be lies
I'll go back home
to the people that knew me before I was old and grown.
Oh my mistletoe called me up on the phone,
tried her best to explain to the hearts that she had known
that though they'd misbehaved, she'd known it all along.
No need to feel ashamed, we didn't do nothing wrong.
And she said:
"I wanted you to know, I believe in the end out of love truth grows
and if I'm to be alone then I'll be alone but don't look at me
like another lost soul."
"Cause I believe in the end out of love truth grows
and if I'm to be alone then I'll be alone but don't look at me
like another lost soul."
"And if I'm to be alone then I'll be alone but don't look at me
like another lost soul."
Lyrics submitted by mmcglathery
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