@[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.
High register operational
In the land of the gauching skiving sun
Their bodies are in the room, lad
Never an honest day's work is done
They call it the Tomblands
They got to me
No, they're never gonna get me no
Never gonna get me no
Never gonna get me no
Fifteen holes in the dealer's chest
Yo ho ho he was a mini martial man
Serve the girls and shovel up the rest
Pieces of eight in the jukebox
Oh you know
Didn't want to be the one to tell you
She was only fourteen
Sussed out your dirty sordid little scene
No, never gonna get me no
Never gonna get me no
Never gonna get me no
Yeah, they're never gonna get me, no
In the land of the gauching skiving sun
Their bodies are in the room, lad
Never an honest day's work is done
They call it the Tomblands
They got to me
No, they're never gonna get me no
Never gonna get me no
Never gonna get me no
Fifteen holes in the dealer's chest
Yo ho ho he was a mini martial man
Serve the girls and shovel up the rest
Pieces of eight in the jukebox
Oh you know
Didn't want to be the one to tell you
She was only fourteen
Sussed out your dirty sordid little scene
No, never gonna get me no
Never gonna get me no
Never gonna get me no
Yeah, they're never gonna get me, no
Lyrics submitted by on_a_plain_11
Tomblands Lyrics as written by Peter Doherty Carl Barat
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mini martell bottles are used for smoking crack.
Fifteen holes in the dealer's chest Yo, ho, ho, he was a mini Martell man
Serve the Girls and shovel up the rest Pieces of eight in the dukebox
This is one of my fav song o the Libertines.. sounds like he trying to tell that the world is so Dirty and perverse, and he dont wanna go with them...
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"Fifteen holes in the dealer's chest" as in a box chest and or anatomical chest.
does anyone know what a Martell man is?
i thought 'fifteen holes in the dealers chest' was as in a drug dealer was shot dead?
Martell is brand of whisky so a mini martell would be a glass of whiskey in the pub 'pieces of eight in the jukebox' his drug money which he used to play a tune on the juke box in the pub
but i could be wrong thats just what i make of it
It sounds like a sea shanty in quite a few parts, goes well with the piraty lyrics (pieces of 8, yo ho ho)
Yeah, mini Martell bottles are often linked to crack use. I've always thought the line 'Pieces of Eight in the jukebox' was referring to the Styx album called Pieces of Eight. I suppose it could also just mean money in the jukebox because the spanish dollar is often referred to as a piece of eight and could be linked in with the yo ho ho pirate theme. I don't know to be honest.
This song reminds me of where I grew up, not because it was like the Tomblands, but it had a reputation as being rough... And I always thought the lyrics went: "Yo ho ho another mini-mart Taliban" meaning some kind of organisation/gang centred around a corner shop or something... Now it makes much more sense...