@[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.
Here her head, she lay
Until she'd rise and say,
"I'm starved of mirth,
Let's go and trip a dwarf"
Oh, what to be done with her?
Oh, what to be done with her?
Ice water for blood
With neither heart or spine
And then just
To pass time; let us go and rob the blind
What to be done with her?
I ask myself,
What to be said of her?
But when she calls me, I do not walk, I run
Oh, when she calls, I do not walk, I run
Until she'd rise and say,
"I'm starved of mirth,
Let's go and trip a dwarf"
Oh, what to be done with her?
Oh, what to be done with her?
Ice water for blood
With neither heart or spine
And then just
To pass time; let us go and rob the blind
What to be done with her?
I ask myself,
What to be said of her?
But when she calls me, I do not walk, I run
Oh, when she calls, I do not walk, I run
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i will just use "maybe's" to my thoughts, obviously isn't the right interpretation, but it is what i thought.
Here her head, she lay Until she'd rise and say, "I'm starved of mirth, Let's go and trip a dwarf"
"Well the couple was lying, wherever was, and maybe she was boring, so she wanted to do something different/new. The verse about ""Trip a dwarf"" describe this hungry for ""mirth"". Also, for this ""dwarf"", i don't think it's about the dwarfism(medical condition) i think it's the mystical/mythology thought for being more surrealistic or unusual."
Oh, what to be done with her? Oh, what to be done with her?
"Alright, this can be so much deep about the lyrical, but thats the point. If you thought about the Morrissey sexuality in this verse, you might discovered some hyphoteses about bissexuality. ""That's because: what to be done with her"" it's an thought about: i need to dispense her, and stuff... You can say: oh but he can dispense her, but find another woman too. Yeah, maybe you right. But i think, from the other songs, this is about bissexuality.
Ice water for blood With neither heart or spine And then just To pass time "Let's go and rob the blind"
"Ice water for blood, with neither heart or spine, and then just to pass time. This shows how she was acting with him.This is an metaphor hard to understand, but probably its about the coldness in their relationship, "the boring zone". And then, again, the ""mirth"" strikes again in the verse:""Let's go and rob the blind"" ."
What to be done with her? I ask myself What to be said of her? Oh...
"He still with the same thought, and this: ""what to be said of her"" probably its an conformism about her way."
But when she calls me I do not walk, I run Oh, when she calls I do not walk, I run Oh...
"For finish, this antitheses comprove that he still love her. She maybe was cold and mistread him, but suddenly when she calls, he do not walk, he run. This can also be a point to first relationships.(These that you love so much that you lost your senses)."
Extra thought: For the instrumental parts, seems melancholic and perfectly works aswell with the lyrical.