@[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 met your mama when I was sixteen
You couldn't have been anymore than three
She caught me stealing y'all's color TV
She called the cops and they arrested me
She was the wildest thing I'd ever seen
The way she pointed that shotgun at me
The police hauled my ass off to jail
Your mama signed the trailer to help make the bail
She picked me up and drove me home
Said I'll learn you not to roam?
Green green grass under my feet
But all I can think about's the dirt underneath
Bulldozers and dirt Bulldozers and dirt
Behind the trailer, my desert
Them red clay piles are heaven on earth
I get my rocks off, bulldozers and dirt
I got a pickup that's up on blocks
And I'm up to my ass in debt and hock
And I can't get the red stains off of my socks
And I can't get you off of my mind
I've lived with your mama for eleven years
Through good times, and bad times, fist fights and tears
But something comes over me when you come near
So won't you come over and sip on this beer
Bulldozers and dirt bulldozers and dirt
Behind the trailer, my desert
I don't mean no harm, I just like to flirt
But most of all I like bulldozers and dirt
Most of all I like bulldozers and dirt
You couldn't have been anymore than three
She caught me stealing y'all's color TV
She called the cops and they arrested me
She was the wildest thing I'd ever seen
The way she pointed that shotgun at me
The police hauled my ass off to jail
Your mama signed the trailer to help make the bail
She picked me up and drove me home
Said I'll learn you not to roam?
Green green grass under my feet
But all I can think about's the dirt underneath
Bulldozers and dirt Bulldozers and dirt
Behind the trailer, my desert
Them red clay piles are heaven on earth
I get my rocks off, bulldozers and dirt
I got a pickup that's up on blocks
And I'm up to my ass in debt and hock
And I can't get the red stains off of my socks
And I can't get you off of my mind
I've lived with your mama for eleven years
Through good times, and bad times, fist fights and tears
But something comes over me when you come near
So won't you come over and sip on this beer
Bulldozers and dirt bulldozers and dirt
Behind the trailer, my desert
I don't mean no harm, I just like to flirt
But most of all I like bulldozers and dirt
Most of all I like bulldozers and dirt
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@spokenthoughts Dude, you're going way out of your way to avoid actually reading the song that's clearly about a guy trying to take his 14 year old stepdaughter out behind the trailer to fuck her. It's not even a particularly complicated metaphor, and as a hillbilly with fucked up relatives, I can say this is awful, but it happens. You're just not comfortable admitting it, which is why shit like it keeps happening while people are too embarrassed to rat these dirty motherfuckers out. You take your weird, flowery interpretation back to church, pretend none of this ever happens.
A 31 year old man reminiscing a life of destruction makes a final run at his youth and hits on his ex girlfriend's 13 year old daughter.
Mr. Bulldozer should be 27 and the daughter 13 or 14. Sorry.
Anyone have any thoughts on the "can't get the red stains off of my socks line"? The obvious thought is the red clay referenced earlier in the song has stained his socks but I feel that there is more to it than that. Also "behind the trailer my dessert"... is that the red clay or the 14 yr old girl?