@[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.
The king and queen of many things
But not the cuckoo's colored wings
Had laughed at me and everything
Around the land that lay so barren
I still wonder if they're laughin'
In the dark with folded hands and
Swollen choreographed speeches
Read the cards and we will teach you
How to see through looking glass and
How to fight a thousand deaths and
Come out sober
And blame you for nothing
I headed for the mountains and I
Walked up to the great green trees but
They just stared right back at me
Said I could stay here through my pain
Could learn to make my tears the rain
For branches that would still remain
You must be tough to be a tree
To take the claws and winter breeze
You love him more than you will know
You'll fight a war and kill some men
You'll take the long way back to him
We could move out west and buy a piano
We can move out west and buy a piano
But not the cuckoo's colored wings
Had laughed at me and everything
Around the land that lay so barren
I still wonder if they're laughin'
In the dark with folded hands and
Swollen choreographed speeches
Read the cards and we will teach you
How to see through looking glass and
How to fight a thousand deaths and
Come out sober
And blame you for nothing
I headed for the mountains and I
Walked up to the great green trees but
They just stared right back at me
Said I could stay here through my pain
Could learn to make my tears the rain
For branches that would still remain
You must be tough to be a tree
To take the claws and winter breeze
You love him more than you will know
You'll fight a war and kill some men
You'll take the long way back to him
We could move out west and buy a piano
We can move out west and buy a piano
Lyrics submitted by T_D_Phoenix
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