@[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.
The way you move
Has got me yearning
The way you move
Has left me burning
I know you know what you're doing to me
I know my hands will never be free
I know what it's like to be in chains
The way you move
Is meant to haunt me
The way you move
To tempt and taunt me
I know you knew on the day you were born
I know somehow I should've been warned
I know I walk every midnight to dawn
In chains
You've got me dying for you
It's you that I'm living through
You've got me reaching for you
You've got me singing to you
Anything you ask me to
Oh
The way you move
Is mesmerizing
The way you move
It's hypnotizing
I know I crumble when you are around
Start to mumble a bit of a false sound
Stagger, stumble, shackled and bound
In chains
In chains
In chains
I'm in chains
In chains, I'm in chains
In chains, I'm in chains
In chains, I'm in chains
In chains, I'm in chains
Has got me yearning
The way you move
Has left me burning
I know you know what you're doing to me
I know my hands will never be free
I know what it's like to be in chains
The way you move
Is meant to haunt me
The way you move
To tempt and taunt me
I know you knew on the day you were born
I know somehow I should've been warned
I know I walk every midnight to dawn
In chains
You've got me dying for you
It's you that I'm living through
You've got me reaching for you
You've got me singing to you
Anything you ask me to
Oh
The way you move
Is mesmerizing
The way you move
It's hypnotizing
I know I crumble when you are around
Start to mumble a bit of a false sound
Stagger, stumble, shackled and bound
In chains
In chains
In chains
I'm in chains
In chains, I'm in chains
In chains, I'm in chains
In chains, I'm in chains
In chains, I'm in chains
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