@[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.
Call your boys, now that the table's set and shining
No one's seen any of them in many days
Call your boys they shot a buzzard off a Chrysler
And you still taste all that you swallowed before grace
And you'll forgive even the time they burned the hen house
And ran from you, ran to the hills with burning hands
Setting sun framed in the doorway right behind you
Several chores, surely some lessons left to tell
Setting sun was in the hills and now before you
Set your boys each with their shining silverware
They'll bury you under the wood beside the carport
Bury you some neon stop along the way
Radio fuzz on the fence post by the pasture
Long ago, Liza and you would dance all day
Now you lay buried, the stern and sacred father
And sacred earth under a billboard in the rain
For one last toast, here's to the brave who went before us
Who died in vain, died in a movie for a dream
No one's seen any of them in many days
Call your boys they shot a buzzard off a Chrysler
And you still taste all that you swallowed before grace
And you'll forgive even the time they burned the hen house
And ran from you, ran to the hills with burning hands
Setting sun framed in the doorway right behind you
Several chores, surely some lessons left to tell
Setting sun was in the hills and now before you
Set your boys each with their shining silverware
They'll bury you under the wood beside the carport
Bury you some neon stop along the way
Radio fuzz on the fence post by the pasture
Long ago, Liza and you would dance all day
Now you lay buried, the stern and sacred father
And sacred earth under a billboard in the rain
For one last toast, here's to the brave who went before us
Who died in vain, died in a movie for a dream
Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher
Call Your Boys Lyrics as written by Samuel Ervin Beam
Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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