@[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 feel frustration sometimes
When the words don't come out right.
Footprints in the Sand reveals
To me a past scene of my life.
Please stand by me through
The thick and thin,
Though the trials of my life.
He's dealing with me now
I turn around you're doing it again
You're doing it again.
I'm not trying to bring you down.
I just want you to see
What is happening to me.
I'm not trying to bring you down.
Just understand that I
Was blind but I am learning to see.
I've ran long enough from
What I know is right.
The sands of yesterday are
Sliding through the clutched fingers of life.
I'm not saying that the fun is gone,
Or the times we had are in vain.
There's a break in the wilderness.
My narrow path is clearing again
It's clearing once again.
I'm not trying to bring you down.
I just want you to see
What is happening to me.
I'm not trying to bring you down.
Just understand that I
Was blind but I am learning to see.
I'm not trying to bring you down.
I just want you to see
What is happening to me.
I'm not trying to bring you down.
Just understand that I
Was blind but I am learning to see.
When the words don't come out right.
Footprints in the Sand reveals
To me a past scene of my life.
Please stand by me through
The thick and thin,
Though the trials of my life.
He's dealing with me now
I turn around you're doing it again
You're doing it again.
I'm not trying to bring you down.
I just want you to see
What is happening to me.
I'm not trying to bring you down.
Just understand that I
Was blind but I am learning to see.
I've ran long enough from
What I know is right.
The sands of yesterday are
Sliding through the clutched fingers of life.
I'm not saying that the fun is gone,
Or the times we had are in vain.
There's a break in the wilderness.
My narrow path is clearing again
It's clearing once again.
I'm not trying to bring you down.
I just want you to see
What is happening to me.
I'm not trying to bring you down.
Just understand that I
Was blind but I am learning to see.
I'm not trying to bring you down.
I just want you to see
What is happening to me.
I'm not trying to bring you down.
Just understand that I
Was blind but I am learning to see.
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