@[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 took the cannonball down to the ocean
Across the desert from sea to shining sea
I rode a latter that climbs across the nation
Fifty million feet of earth between the buried and me
"Hey how do you do?"
She said, "Hey how do you do?"
She buys a ticket 'cause it's cold where she comes from
She climbs aboard 'cause she's scared of getting older in the snow
Love is a ghost train rumbling through the darkness
Hold on to me darling I've got nowhere else to go
"How do you do?"
She said, "How do you do?"
I took the cannonball down to the ocean
Watched the diesel disappear beneath the tumbling waves
Love is a ghost train howling on the radio
"Remember everything." she said, "when only memory remains."
"How do you do?"
She said, "How do you do?"
Across the desert from sea to shining sea
I rode a latter that climbs across the nation
Fifty million feet of earth between the buried and me
"Hey how do you do?"
She said, "Hey how do you do?"
She buys a ticket 'cause it's cold where she comes from
She climbs aboard 'cause she's scared of getting older in the snow
Love is a ghost train rumbling through the darkness
Hold on to me darling I've got nowhere else to go
"How do you do?"
She said, "How do you do?"
I took the cannonball down to the ocean
Watched the diesel disappear beneath the tumbling waves
Love is a ghost train howling on the radio
"Remember everything." she said, "when only memory remains."
"How do you do?"
She said, "How do you do?"
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