@[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.
A self-fulfilling prophecy of endless possibilty
You're born and raised across the street
In algebra, in algebra
The fences that you cannot climb
The sentences that do not rhyme
In all that you can ever change
The one you're looking for
It gets you down
It gets you down
There's no spark
No light in the dark
It gets you down
It gets you down
You travel far
What have you found
That there's no time
There's no time
To analyze
To think things through
To make sense
Like cows in the city
They never looked so pretty
Bad power cuts and blackouts
Sleeping like babies
It gets you down
It gets you down
You're just playing a part
You're just playing a part
You're playing a part
Playing a part
That there's no time
There's no time
To analyze
Analyze
Analyze
You're born and raised across the street
In algebra, in algebra
The fences that you cannot climb
The sentences that do not rhyme
In all that you can ever change
The one you're looking for
It gets you down
It gets you down
There's no spark
No light in the dark
It gets you down
It gets you down
You travel far
What have you found
That there's no time
There's no time
To analyze
To think things through
To make sense
Like cows in the city
They never looked so pretty
Bad power cuts and blackouts
Sleeping like babies
It gets you down
It gets you down
You're just playing a part
You're just playing a part
You're playing a part
Playing a part
That there's no time
There's no time
To analyze
Analyze
Analyze
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Analyse Lyrics as written by Thomas Edward Yorke
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I like your interpretation slunkmonky. But for some reason the line 'in rolling reams across the screen' reminds me of Thom's lyrics for "Videotape", and the idea of watching ones' life flash before ones' eyes... the imagery I get is of something going by very fast. It makes me think of how fast time seems to go by once we get older and we realize what little time we have left to live, and although we'd like to be able to grasp what our purpose in life is, and get rid of the obstacles in our way, we are only human... we have certain characteristics in our personality that have enabled us but also limit what we can do.
The part where he sings 'we're just playing a part' makes me think of two things: one, that we get so involved in the roles we've chosen to play in life that we forget who we really are. All of a sudden we realize certain things are not that important if they take away time from the things that do matter to us. Two, I think of the idea that each one of us is just a part of a greater whole..