@[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.
It's your sinking divide.
Clock went cold and the readouts die
Head ain't reading things right.
We malfunction blinking light.
Looking up at the waves.
Peaks and bones have you erased.
Surface gets farther away.
Settle and sediment sinks to clay.
And your bones start to weigh (wake?).
And your face picks you late.
And before you fade away.
Your sweeping for days.
There's a flicker in the cold.
Second chance to have and hold.
Out with the new in with the old.
The wavelength rests at its note.
Cause there's been a grief.
There's been washing and bleach.
There's no lessons to teach.
And the epoch is a leech.
And it all starts to creep.
The walls start to leak.
So they remember you weep.
It's more than a dream.
Clock went cold and the readouts die
Head ain't reading things right.
We malfunction blinking light.
Looking up at the waves.
Peaks and bones have you erased.
Surface gets farther away.
Settle and sediment sinks to clay.
And your bones start to weigh (wake?).
And your face picks you late.
And before you fade away.
Your sweeping for days.
There's a flicker in the cold.
Second chance to have and hold.
Out with the new in with the old.
The wavelength rests at its note.
Cause there's been a grief.
There's been washing and bleach.
There's no lessons to teach.
And the epoch is a leech.
And it all starts to creep.
The walls start to leak.
So they remember you weep.
It's more than a dream.
Lyrics submitted by agrarianhistory
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