@[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.
Kashka from Baghdad lives in sin they say
With another man
But no one knows who
Old friends never call there
Some wonder if life's inside at all
If there's life inside at all
But we know the lady who rents the room
She catches them calling à la lune
At night they're seen
Laughing, loving
They know the way
To be happy
They never go for walks
Maybe it's because the moon's not bright enough
There's light in love you see
I watch their shadows
Tall and slim in the window opposite
I long to be with them
Because when all the alley-cats come out
You can hear music from Kashka's house
At night they're seen
Laughing, loving
They know the way
To be happy
With another man
But no one knows who
Old friends never call there
Some wonder if life's inside at all
If there's life inside at all
But we know the lady who rents the room
She catches them calling à la lune
At night they're seen
Laughing, loving
They know the way
To be happy
They never go for walks
Maybe it's because the moon's not bright enough
There's light in love you see
I watch their shadows
Tall and slim in the window opposite
I long to be with them
Because when all the alley-cats come out
You can hear music from Kashka's house
At night they're seen
Laughing, loving
They know the way
To be happy
Lyrics submitted by weezerific:cutlery, edited by Mellow_Harsher
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Kate is so cool...isn't this the first song about a gay male couple???
Indeed this song is about a gay male couple. Kate sings as Kashka's neighbor and she sees him happy with another man and she envies them because she can't have seem to have the happiness that they have. She wants to get to know them. What does "a la lune" mean?
And the neighbor feels a little guilty spying and feeling jealous.
I always found it funny and odd that poeple think it is about gay couple - Kashka is a female name.
Kashka is not just a female name it's more commonly used as a boys name in Muslim North African countries, it was also confirmed by Kate Bush that it was about a gay couple.
Also she says "with another man."
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i think there's an underlying theme of lonliness
the narrator is so lonely and sees them happy and wishes she could be happy with them
Definitely one of Kate Bush' finest song.