@[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'm leaving tonight
Down the same dirt road
A million times
I've driven just to get home
And I ain't ever looking back
For nothing
Headed for the coast
Looking for the high life
Everybody knows
It's nothing but a good time
And I sold everything I had
For something
I can't seem to find
So this is the life they talk about
This is the I can't live without
When the real world crashes down
Oh if they could see me now
When all the dreams are all your own
Turn to nightmares all alone
It hits you right between the eyes
This is the life
This is the life
These four walls feel more like a prison
Instead of pure highs
I couldn't wait to live in
So I just drink myself to sleep
Again
Can't escape my mind
This ain't like a movie
It's getting hard to hide
The more it's doin' to me
Don't know how long I can keep
I'm going
Crazy all the time
So this is the life they talk about
This is the life I can't live without
When the real world crashes down
Oh if they could see me now
When all the dreams are all your own
Turn to nightmares all alone
It hits you right between the eyes
This is the life
This is the life
Nothings ever what it seems
Maybe that grass ain't so green
Nothings ever out of reach
When you're seventeen
So this is the life they talked about
This is the I can't live without
When the real world crashes down
Oh if they could see me now
When all the dreams are all your own
Turn to nightmares all alone
It hits you right between the eyes
And this is the life
This is the life
Yeah
Down the same dirt road
A million times
I've driven just to get home
And I ain't ever looking back
For nothing
Headed for the coast
Looking for the high life
Everybody knows
It's nothing but a good time
And I sold everything I had
For something
I can't seem to find
So this is the life they talk about
This is the I can't live without
When the real world crashes down
Oh if they could see me now
When all the dreams are all your own
Turn to nightmares all alone
It hits you right between the eyes
This is the life
This is the life
These four walls feel more like a prison
Instead of pure highs
I couldn't wait to live in
So I just drink myself to sleep
Again
Can't escape my mind
This ain't like a movie
It's getting hard to hide
The more it's doin' to me
Don't know how long I can keep
I'm going
Crazy all the time
So this is the life they talk about
This is the life I can't live without
When the real world crashes down
Oh if they could see me now
When all the dreams are all your own
Turn to nightmares all alone
It hits you right between the eyes
This is the life
This is the life
Nothings ever what it seems
Maybe that grass ain't so green
Nothings ever out of reach
When you're seventeen
So this is the life they talked about
This is the I can't live without
When the real world crashes down
Oh if they could see me now
When all the dreams are all your own
Turn to nightmares all alone
It hits you right between the eyes
And this is the life
This is the life
Yeah
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He says "Headed for the coast Looking for the high life Everybody knows It's nothing but a good time And I sold everything I had For something I can't seem to find" That's saying he went to look for what everyone has been talking about and he can't seem to find it.
Then it says "this is the life they talk about? this is the I can't live without"...I think that's said sarcastically, like "this is it?". This song hits hard for me, to get to where you've been going and being disappointed. Idk, just my take on it.
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Okay so I've been thinking about this for a while now and I could be totally wrong here but I think that the song is about someone who is trying to find something good in life. He/she gave up everything they had for that "freedom" in their life and maybe they got it or maybe they didn't. But I think it's just an up and down life mainly about just wanting that so called freedom to be able to life "The Life"
I love this song so much. This song hits close to home for me, because I'm just starting out on my own. "The Life" seems to be about growing up, and realizing that being an adult isn't all it's cracked up to be. You just can't wait to leave home and get away from your family, then you realize that having no support sucks. I understand totally.
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I think all the previous comments are all very good interpretations. Mine is pretty much the same. I believe it's about having that dream as a teenager of becoming a rock star. You pack up everything and head to California "the coast". You make it, you are touring the world but it's everything you always dreamt it would be bit you don't realize the toll it takes. Just my opinion. Gr8 song
I thought about it as I related it to my life. I thought I wanted to join a fraternity. I didn't at all. I realized how it wasn't just a group of people that you could call your brothers and they had your back. The politics with it and stuff wasn't something that I would enjoy. I'd rather remain friends with people in one, it's the next best thing to that.