@[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.
There's a secret place I like to go
Everyone is there but their face don't show
If you get inside you can't get out
There's no coming back, I hear them shout
Welcome to my hide away, my secret place
How I arrived I can't explain
You're welcome to, if you want to stay
But everyone just runs away
Let me in, get me out
Can't do more than twist and shout
Lost my soul without a trace
Found it again in my secret place
In disgrace
I hide from those that try to find me
Scary things that's right behind me
I lost myself, I must confess
I can't explain how I got this mess
Everyone is there but their face don't show
If you get inside you can't get out
There's no coming back, I hear them shout
Welcome to my hide away, my secret place
How I arrived I can't explain
You're welcome to, if you want to stay
But everyone just runs away
Let me in, get me out
Can't do more than twist and shout
Lost my soul without a trace
Found it again in my secret place
In disgrace
I hide from those that try to find me
Scary things that's right behind me
I lost myself, I must confess
I can't explain how I got this mess
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to me, i think this song is about Dave's mind. It talks about how messed up his thoughts are and how when people try to "understand" him they get scared and worried. it also says how everyone has been "there", meaning that everyone has been in his shoes at some point in their lives and they just don't want to admit it.
Dave Mustaine says that his secret place is inside his head. I think may be he was talked about his heroine addiction.and he always wanted to escape from drus, but he couldnt! we can see that from lyric "There's a secret place I like to go Everyone is there but their face don't show If you get inside you can't get out There's no coming back, I hear them shout"
and in this line lines too
"Let me in, get me out Can't do more then twist and shout Lost my soul without a trace Found it again in my secret place In discrace"
He may also be talking about schizophrenia when he says "I hear them shout". He went inside his head to his secret place and he probably started hearing voices, maybe eventually becoming visual hallucinations. Now they won't go away.
The personalities created with schizophrenia are really just pieces of yourself. Dave must've found his lost soul by realizing that he'd broken himself.
That's what I got from the song, anyway.
Wow...! can't believe my eyes!!! only 3 comments??? i love this song so much. it's my 2nd favorite on Cryptic after "Trust". and yeah! it's about mustain himself.
This song can be understood so many different ways. One has secret place inside it's mind. Maybe some X-Files stuff (If I recall video suggested something like that). Personally I like to think this as story of secret hideout middle of nowhere, heaven on earth that is not polluted by neon signs and plastic stuff...
i aggree witha all of you uve all got valid points! but to me this song has always been the one song ill put on adter a really bad day and escape to my secret place its always helped me through the hard times and i thank mustain for telling us about his secret place!
i think you are all on the right track
This song is great. This along with Trust and Use the Man are the only ones I listen to from Cryptic.
I think the song is about escaping from the (hard) reality to your own 'secret place' using drugs (heroine) and the person finds himself addicted and confused.
It's Dave being confessional and putting it out there...I think A Secret Place is about dealing with the dark side of the Force - my inner Alice Cooper (two black eyes and a twisted smile) - I dig the song's simplicity and razor sharp honesty