@[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.
It was the year of '91, Freddie Mercury was gone
And "Never Mind" was playing on our radios
We were only seventeen, I would park out on your street
Wait for dark to see you climbing out your window
Something's gone wrong with the weather
There's a storm out in the desert
But to us that all seemed very far away
Sometimes, when I think about those days
It makes me wonder what went by
Oh yeah, left me breathless
She was so damn wild
Sometimes I think those were the best days of our lives. (Ohh)
We were young and reckless
Too soon, out of time
Next time I'm seventeen
I won't be left behind
She would still be mine
She would still be mine
While the Iron Curtain fell, we were lying in a field
Shared the gin and cigarettes I'd stolen from my dad
We both knew what would happen next in my cherry red AX
Did she know she was the best I'd ever had?
Said we'd always be together, that we'd stay this way forever
The future seemed so very far away
Sometimes, when I think about those days
It makes me wonder what went by
Oh yeah, left me breathless
She was so damn wild
Sometimes I think those were the best days of our lives. (Ohh)
We were young and reckless
Too soon, out of time
Next time I'm seventeen
I won't be left behind
She would still be mine
You must be married now in some suburban house
Are you happy now?
Do you ever think back to those times?
It was so innocent
Do you ever meet me in your mind?
Oh yeah, she left me breathless
She was so damn wild
Sometimes I think those were the best days of our lives, oh
We were young and reckless
Too soon, out of time
Next time I'm seventeen
I won't be left behind
And she would still be mine
(Oh yeah, she was)
She'd still be mine
(Sometimes)
Still be mine
(Best days of our lives)
We were young and reckless
Too soon, out of time
Next time I'm seventeen
I won't be left behind
She would still be mine.
And "Never Mind" was playing on our radios
We were only seventeen, I would park out on your street
Wait for dark to see you climbing out your window
Something's gone wrong with the weather
There's a storm out in the desert
But to us that all seemed very far away
Sometimes, when I think about those days
It makes me wonder what went by
Oh yeah, left me breathless
She was so damn wild
Sometimes I think those were the best days of our lives. (Ohh)
We were young and reckless
Too soon, out of time
Next time I'm seventeen
I won't be left behind
She would still be mine
She would still be mine
While the Iron Curtain fell, we were lying in a field
Shared the gin and cigarettes I'd stolen from my dad
We both knew what would happen next in my cherry red AX
Did she know she was the best I'd ever had?
Said we'd always be together, that we'd stay this way forever
The future seemed so very far away
Sometimes, when I think about those days
It makes me wonder what went by
Oh yeah, left me breathless
She was so damn wild
Sometimes I think those were the best days of our lives. (Ohh)
We were young and reckless
Too soon, out of time
Next time I'm seventeen
I won't be left behind
She would still be mine
You must be married now in some suburban house
Are you happy now?
Do you ever think back to those times?
It was so innocent
Do you ever meet me in your mind?
Oh yeah, she left me breathless
She was so damn wild
Sometimes I think those were the best days of our lives, oh
We were young and reckless
Too soon, out of time
Next time I'm seventeen
I won't be left behind
And she would still be mine
(Oh yeah, she was)
She'd still be mine
(Sometimes)
Still be mine
(Best days of our lives)
We were young and reckless
Too soon, out of time
Next time I'm seventeen
I won't be left behind
She would still be mine.
Lyrics submitted by Abbie96
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