@[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.
Breaking the signal
So it's totally unreadable
Drinking the dregs
Eating the utterly inedible
We do what we do
All for you
All dressed up
Black hat and white cane
Slowly circling the drain
Ready for the future
Ready for the world about to come
Shooting the sequel before the treatment's even finished
Sanding numbers off the monojects
As our slight returns diminish
We are what we are
Get in the goddamn car
Smiling faces flawlessly rehearsed
We are sleek and beautiful
We are cursed
Ready for the future
Ready for the world about to come
So it's totally unreadable
Drinking the dregs
Eating the utterly inedible
We do what we do
All for you
All dressed up
Black hat and white cane
Slowly circling the drain
Ready for the future
Ready for the world about to come
Shooting the sequel before the treatment's even finished
Sanding numbers off the monojects
As our slight returns diminish
We are what we are
Get in the goddamn car
Smiling faces flawlessly rehearsed
We are sleek and beautiful
We are cursed
Ready for the future
Ready for the world about to come
Lyrics submitted by I'm a Pirate, edited by unspecialfish
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This song needs more comments. It's one of their best songs ever. How could it have so few comments?
Anyway, "Breaking the signal so it's totally unreadable." I don't know what the signal is or how they're breaking it, but I believe they are saying that they don't want anyone to know what they are doing.
"Drinking the dregs Eating the utterly inedible." Dregs are stuff that settles to the bottom of liquids. They're doing whatever it takes to get high, even it it means drinking and eating disgusting stuff.
"We do what we do all for you." I think "you" is Cathy. Her "special secret sickness" (mentioned in "Dance Music" on the Sunset Tree) was an addiction to meth. Since Cathy was the last best thing JD had, he and his friends made and did meth all for her.
"All dressed up Black hat and white cane." This part I don't know. That's why this song needs more comments!
"Slowly circling the drain." When you drain a bath tub, water circles the drain before it goes down it. It takes a while for the water to drain. That's what's going on with the lives of meth users. The meth gets them high, so life seems fine, for a little while, then it takes people down and their lives go down the drain.
"Ready for the future Ready for the world about to come." The future for a meth-head is a bad one. But they know that and they're ready for it.
Some of the 2nd verse has already been explained in other comments so I will skip ahead to "We are what we are Get in the goddamn car." They are meth-heads and they know it and you can't change them. You will either join them or you will stay away from them.
"Smiling faces flawlessly rehearsed." The meth will eventually make them miserable, but they have to look happy in front of their loved ones and family so they rehearse their smiles.
"We are sleek and beautiful We are cursed." They have just started doing meth (this is the 1st song on the album) so they aren't monsters yet. But they know they will be.
This is my 2 cents. I love this song and I'm sorry if my interpretation is wrong.