@[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 remembered you older and taller
But you're younger and smaller
So who's gonna call her and say
That you're back again?
And all the lies, they were wiser
And wise were the lies
And the lies were on fire
And the fires were put out just to be lit again
You're alone 'til you're not alone
And that's all you need to know
Every time you decide to stay
Then the world will make you go
And that's all you need to know
All the debts, they got settled
And the settlers got cattle
But the cattle was rattled by the snakes
That were guarding the garden gates
And you retired just in time
You were about to be fired
For being so tired from hiring the ones
Who will take your place
All the lies on your resume
Have become the truth by now
And the things that you never did
Have become your youth, somehow
You know everything by now
Enjoy your youth
Sounds like a threat
Enjoy your youth
Sounds like a threat
But I will anyway
I remembered you older and taller
But you're younger and smaller
So who's gonna call her and say
That you're here at last?
And all the days, they were longer
And the drinks, they were stronger
The words, we sang wrong
But the songs were remembered
And time just passed
You're around 'til you're not around
And that's all I need to know
Every time you decide to stay
Then the world will make you go
And that's all you need to know
Enjoy your youth
Sounds like a threat
Enjoy your youth
Sounds like a threat
But I will anyway
But you're younger and smaller
So who's gonna call her and say
That you're back again?
And all the lies, they were wiser
And wise were the lies
And the lies were on fire
And the fires were put out just to be lit again
You're alone 'til you're not alone
And that's all you need to know
Every time you decide to stay
Then the world will make you go
And that's all you need to know
All the debts, they got settled
And the settlers got cattle
But the cattle was rattled by the snakes
That were guarding the garden gates
And you retired just in time
You were about to be fired
For being so tired from hiring the ones
Who will take your place
All the lies on your resume
Have become the truth by now
And the things that you never did
Have become your youth, somehow
You know everything by now
Enjoy your youth
Sounds like a threat
Enjoy your youth
Sounds like a threat
But I will anyway
I remembered you older and taller
But you're younger and smaller
So who's gonna call her and say
That you're here at last?
And all the days, they were longer
And the drinks, they were stronger
The words, we sang wrong
But the songs were remembered
And time just passed
You're around 'til you're not around
And that's all I need to know
Every time you decide to stay
Then the world will make you go
And that's all you need to know
Enjoy your youth
Sounds like a threat
Enjoy your youth
Sounds like a threat
But I will anyway
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Seems to be about getting old. Life passing you by.
Not sure if it has an element of also a lost opportunity of love.
I see it as a loving pat on the cheek of a loved one who has grown old. Like if when she was 5 her 30 yr old uncle seemed so much more older and taller, but now she's 40 he is 65, which is younger, relatively speaking, and shorter.
This is probably nuts but to me it reads like a father who was never around, who abandoned her mum, and she remembered him as being this lovely amazing man and now he seems smaller (more pathetic) and younger (more childish) and all the things he told her are obviously lies now but it doesn\'t matter any more they may as well be true. Who\'s going to call her means that her mum has either moved on or is dead now.\n\n(I don\'t know anything about Spektor\'s life, I literally just heard the song in A Castle For Christmas an hour ago and found it enchanting and then found out it was written by the writer of my favourite Christmas song, My Dear Acquaintance.)\n\nYou retired just when you were about to be fired is like he left but he was about to become unnecessary anyway because he caused this distance between him and her or him and her mum.