@[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.
Stuck a pin in your backbone.
Spoke it down from there.
All I ever wanted was to be your spine.
Lost your friction and you slid for a mile.
Overdone, overdrive, overlive, override.
You're not the one who let me down,
But thanks for offering.
It's not a voice and I'm not around.
But thanks for picking it.
Up, on the radio.
Sampled your rust from a faucet, I know.
I've got a magnet in my head,
A magnet in my head.
Extra thick, extra long, the way it was wasted.
And there's a chance that things'll get weird.
Yeah, that's a possibility.
Although I didn't do anything,
No, I didn't do anything.
All I ever wanted,
All I ever wanted,
All I ever wanted was to be your spine.
[Repeat]
And a mouth kept shut and a tongue twist tie.
You're the web in front, you're the favorite lie.
You're a buck my lip, you're a lash my lie.
You're the web in front of a favorite lie.
Stuck a pin in your backbone.
Spoke it down from there.
All I ever wanted was to be your spine.
I've got a magnet in my head, a magnet in my head.
Extra thick, extra long, the way it was wasted wasted.
Spoke it down from there.
All I ever wanted was to be your spine.
Lost your friction and you slid for a mile.
Overdone, overdrive, overlive, override.
You're not the one who let me down,
But thanks for offering.
It's not a voice and I'm not around.
But thanks for picking it.
Up, on the radio.
Sampled your rust from a faucet, I know.
I've got a magnet in my head,
A magnet in my head.
Extra thick, extra long, the way it was wasted.
And there's a chance that things'll get weird.
Yeah, that's a possibility.
Although I didn't do anything,
No, I didn't do anything.
All I ever wanted,
All I ever wanted,
All I ever wanted was to be your spine.
[Repeat]
And a mouth kept shut and a tongue twist tie.
You're the web in front, you're the favorite lie.
You're a buck my lip, you're a lash my lie.
You're the web in front of a favorite lie.
Stuck a pin in your backbone.
Spoke it down from there.
All I ever wanted was to be your spine.
I've got a magnet in my head, a magnet in my head.
Extra thick, extra long, the way it was wasted wasted.
Lyrics submitted by knate15, edited by Manquework
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The more I read over it, the more I see it this way--especially in lines like "sampled your rust from a faucet, I know" which seems to me a figurative and beautiful way of talking about an old car that is left in rain and rusts over a long time.
Not sure what part corresponds to the "spine" of a car. Thought of maybe a car frame, or along with the radio reference, the dashed increments of the old analog radios that have dials.
Oh, and it just occurred to me that the "magnet in my head" lends some meaning to the narrators address of the radio, since a magnet will distort a radio, or isn't there a magnet in the parts of a radio?
Actually, its getting clearer to me now that a big part of the song is talking about a radio in a figurative way. "Stuck a pin in your backbone" would be again a really beautiful way of seeing the station indicator against the markings of the various radio stations; further, the "loss your friction and slid for a mile" would be about the inarticulate static of the radio, or possibly the wearing down of the markings on a radio display, and turning that dial a lot to find something that picks up.
Ok, so reading it once more, I'm convinced that both the narrator and the you are personified parts of a radio head unit. Hence the "magnet in my head". Now maybe the "web in front" might be seen as having something to do with a chewed up cassette tape.
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