@[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.
Murphy, Murphy darling dear, I long for you now night and day
Your pain was my pleasure your sorrow my joy I fear now I've lost you to health and good cheer
Darcy when I met you I was 5 years too young, a boy beyond his age or so I'd tell someone
Anyone who'd listen and a few who couldn't care still I welcomed you with open arms my love I did share
Darcy, Darcy darlin' dear you me left dying, crying there in whiskey,
Gin and pints of beer I fell for you my darling dear
You shut me off then you showed me the door
But you always came crawlin' back beggin' me for more
I showed you kindness a stool and a tab
Then you poured me my pain in a dirty glass
Yeah you left him bloody battered penniless and poor
You know I often stopped to wonder how he made through my door
With my brothers new non-duplicate registry I.D.
Well you bit off more than you could chew the first day you met me
Darcy Darcy darlin' dear, you left me dying, crying there in whiskey
Gin and pints of beer, I fell for you my darling dear
You weren't the first to court me mister you won't be the last
Oh I'm sure I wasn't honey, I know all about your past
Listen to the big shot with his pager on call you spent most of those nights in my bathroom stall
Yeah, you got him high but you left him low
Mind your own business boy how was I to know that he was just a fiend and a no good cheat
Well that's all in the past bitch cause now I got it beat
Darcy Darcy darlin' dear, you left me dying, crying there in whiskey
Gin and pints of beer, I fell for you my darling dear
Darcy Darcy darlin' dear, you left me dying, crying there in whiskey
Gin and pints of beer, I fell for you my darling dear
Darcy Darcy darlin' dear, you left me dying, crying there in whiskey
Gin and pints of beer, I fell for you my darling dear
Darcy Darcy darlin' dear, you left me dying, crying there in whiskey
Gin and pints of beer, I fell for you my darling dear
My dear, my dear
Darcy Darcy darlin' dear,
Your pain was my pleasure your sorrow my joy I fear now I've lost you to health and good cheer
Darcy when I met you I was 5 years too young, a boy beyond his age or so I'd tell someone
Anyone who'd listen and a few who couldn't care still I welcomed you with open arms my love I did share
Darcy, Darcy darlin' dear you me left dying, crying there in whiskey,
Gin and pints of beer I fell for you my darling dear
You shut me off then you showed me the door
But you always came crawlin' back beggin' me for more
I showed you kindness a stool and a tab
Then you poured me my pain in a dirty glass
Yeah you left him bloody battered penniless and poor
You know I often stopped to wonder how he made through my door
With my brothers new non-duplicate registry I.D.
Well you bit off more than you could chew the first day you met me
Darcy Darcy darlin' dear, you left me dying, crying there in whiskey
Gin and pints of beer, I fell for you my darling dear
You weren't the first to court me mister you won't be the last
Oh I'm sure I wasn't honey, I know all about your past
Listen to the big shot with his pager on call you spent most of those nights in my bathroom stall
Yeah, you got him high but you left him low
Mind your own business boy how was I to know that he was just a fiend and a no good cheat
Well that's all in the past bitch cause now I got it beat
Darcy Darcy darlin' dear, you left me dying, crying there in whiskey
Gin and pints of beer, I fell for you my darling dear
Darcy Darcy darlin' dear, you left me dying, crying there in whiskey
Gin and pints of beer, I fell for you my darling dear
Darcy Darcy darlin' dear, you left me dying, crying there in whiskey
Gin and pints of beer, I fell for you my darling dear
Darcy Darcy darlin' dear, you left me dying, crying there in whiskey
Gin and pints of beer, I fell for you my darling dear
My dear, my dear
Darcy Darcy darlin' dear,
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The Dirty Glass Lyrics as written by James P. Lynch Alexander Barr
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