Oh you're a holiday, such a holiday
Oh you're a holiday, such a holiday

It's something I thinks worthwhile
If the puppet makes you smile
If not then you're throwing stones
Throwing stones, throwing stones

Ooh it's a funny game
Don't believe that it's all the same
Can't think what I've just said
Put the soft pillow on my head

Millions of eyes can see
Yet why am I so blind
When the someone else is me
It's unkind, it's unkind

Yet millions of eyes can see
Yet why am I so blind
When the someone else is me
It's unkind, it's unkind

Ooh you're a holiday, every day , such a holiday
Now it's my turn to say, and I say you're a holiday
It's something I thinks worthwhile
If the puppet makes you smile
If not then you're throwing stones
Throwing stones, throwing stones


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Holiday Lyrics as written by Robin Hugh Gibb Barry Gibb

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    I definitely believe this is one of the Bee Gee's best songs. He's just singing about a girl who is so special she's a "holiday" - a rare occurance, a special thing. He'll do anything to make her happy, and if she's not, he's hurt. Some other parts of the song is hard to decipher for me, but that's what I think the gist of it is.

    webmasterdeeon October 29, 2006   Link

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