@[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 will confess to you
Because you made me think about the times
You turn the picture on to me and I'll turn over
The vision was a masterpiece of comic timing
But you wouldn't laugh at all
And I wonder what the boy was thinking
The picture was an old collage of something classical
The model with a tragic air
Because without a doubt he'd given up the fight
The ghost of somebody at his side
I will confess to you
Because I didn't think about the message
As I walked down the alleyway it was a Sunday
And all my friends deserted me because you painted me
As the fraud I really was
And if you think you see with just your eyes you're mad
'Cause Lisa learned a lot from putting on a blindfold
When she knew she had been bad
She met another blind kid at a fancy dress
It was the best sex she ever had
I'll send a dress to you
Because it's needing badly taken in
But I was so embarrassed when I missed your party
It was me that paid for it eventually
Because you know how much I wanted
To meet your friend the star of stage and local press
The dream of all the bowlie boys that hang around here
And I'm no different from the rest
I'm not too proud to say that I'm okay with
The girl next door who's famous for showing her breasts
You're not impressed by me
But it's a funny way for you to tell me
A whisper in a choir stall
The man was talking about you simultaneously
Frankly, I let my heavy eyelids flutter
Because I have been sleeping badly lately
I know you were historical from all the books I've read
But I thought you could be bluffing
And with this chance I've missed I feel remiss
It's days and months before I see you again
Because you made me think about the times
You turn the picture on to me and I'll turn over
The vision was a masterpiece of comic timing
But you wouldn't laugh at all
And I wonder what the boy was thinking
The picture was an old collage of something classical
The model with a tragic air
Because without a doubt he'd given up the fight
The ghost of somebody at his side
I will confess to you
Because I didn't think about the message
As I walked down the alleyway it was a Sunday
And all my friends deserted me because you painted me
As the fraud I really was
And if you think you see with just your eyes you're mad
'Cause Lisa learned a lot from putting on a blindfold
When she knew she had been bad
She met another blind kid at a fancy dress
It was the best sex she ever had
I'll send a dress to you
Because it's needing badly taken in
But I was so embarrassed when I missed your party
It was me that paid for it eventually
Because you know how much I wanted
To meet your friend the star of stage and local press
The dream of all the bowlie boys that hang around here
And I'm no different from the rest
I'm not too proud to say that I'm okay with
The girl next door who's famous for showing her breasts
You're not impressed by me
But it's a funny way for you to tell me
A whisper in a choir stall
The man was talking about you simultaneously
Frankly, I let my heavy eyelids flutter
Because I have been sleeping badly lately
I know you were historical from all the books I've read
But I thought you could be bluffing
And with this chance I've missed I feel remiss
It's days and months before I see you again
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The Model Lyrics as written by Christopher Geddes Campbe
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I love how the sixth line of each verse is sung by a second voice. I read the second voice as being the unspoken confession that the first voice really wants to say, but doesn't, or can't:
A: The picture was a masterpiece of comic timing You wouldn't laugh at all B: And I wondered what the boy was thinking A: The picture was an old collage of something classical The model with a tragic air Because without a doubt he'd given up the fight The ghost of somebody at his side
---Here the analysis is interrupted by his true thought: I wondered what the boy was thinking?
B: And if you think you see with just your eyes you're mad
---Again, an unspoken thought--perhaps too cliched to risk voicing.
A: But I was so embarressed that I missed your party It was me that paid for it eventually Because you know how much I wanted B: To meet your friend the star of stage and local press
---The second voice reveals the real reason he wanted to go to the party.
A: Frankly, I let my heavy eyelids flutter B: Because I have been sleeping badly lately
---Again, the first voice doesn't want to admit a weakness.
In the end, the person being addressed isn't impressed by the narrator--maybe because he won't reveal his true self? The lines after hint at the presence of the second voice:
"A whisper in a choir stall The man was talking about you simultaneously"
stuart murdoch started playing in coffee shops under the name "lisa helps the blind" which is why lisa keeps reappearing in several song. this directly links back to the band's original name by putting lisa in a blindfold and meeting another blind kid. love this song far too much for words.
Guy is trying to fuck a model by dating her friend and hoping that he gets with her that way. The second voice is what\'s really happening in the narrator\'s head. For example in the line, "But I was so embarressed that I missed your party\nIt was me that paid for it eventually\nBecause you know how much I wanted\nSecond voice: To meet your friend the star of stage and local press
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And if you think you see with just your eyes you're mad 'Cause Lisa learned a lot from putting on a blindfold When she knew she had been bad She met another blind kid at a fancy dress It was the best sex she ever had
There's a reference to Lisa from Beautiful!
I wonder if it's also the same Lisa from "She's Losing It" or "Like Dylan in the Movies"...
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I think "you" is a model the narrator has a crush on but he thinks she's out of his league, and he knows he has no chance with her ("you're not impressed by me")
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