@[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 feels like I only go backwards, baby
Every part of me says, "Go ahead"
I got my hopes up again, oh no, not again
It feels like we only go backwards, darling
I know that you think you sound silly when you call my name
But I hear it inside my head all day
When I realize I'm just holding on to the hope that maybe
Your feelings don't show
It feels like I only go backwards, baby
Every part of me says, "Go ahead"
I got my hopes up again, oh no, not again
It feels like we only go backwards, darling
The seed of all this indecision isn't me, oh no
'Cause I decided long ago
But that's the way it seems to go
When tryin' so hard to get to something real
It feels
It feels like I only go backwards, darling
Every part of me says, "Go ahead"
I got my hopes up again, oh no, not again
It feels like we only go backwards, darling
It feels like I only go backwards, baby
Every part of me says, "Go ahead"
I got my hopes up again, oh no, not again
Feels like we only go backwards, darling
Feels like I only go backwards, baby
Every part of me says, "Go ahead"
I got my hopes up again, oh no, not again
Feels like we only go backwards, darling
Every part of me says, "Go ahead"
I got my hopes up again, oh no, not again
It feels like we only go backwards, darling
I know that you think you sound silly when you call my name
But I hear it inside my head all day
When I realize I'm just holding on to the hope that maybe
Your feelings don't show
It feels like I only go backwards, baby
Every part of me says, "Go ahead"
I got my hopes up again, oh no, not again
It feels like we only go backwards, darling
The seed of all this indecision isn't me, oh no
'Cause I decided long ago
But that's the way it seems to go
When tryin' so hard to get to something real
It feels
It feels like I only go backwards, darling
Every part of me says, "Go ahead"
I got my hopes up again, oh no, not again
It feels like we only go backwards, darling
It feels like I only go backwards, baby
Every part of me says, "Go ahead"
I got my hopes up again, oh no, not again
Feels like we only go backwards, darling
Feels like I only go backwards, baby
Every part of me says, "Go ahead"
I got my hopes up again, oh no, not again
Feels like we only go backwards, darling
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@tiffanyayala99 <br /> I have always interpreted this the same way and this was kind of "our song" with some guy I personnaly was really in love with. He gave me the vinyl of that song and I really believed it was his way of telling me he loved me inspite of all this indecision. But well, now I think it didn't.<br /> <br /> Today I read this interpretation by someone called grandmaster-d on another site and I think he nailed it.<br /> "IMO this song is about unfulfilled love. But it is the singer himself who can not love his partner.<br /> The hook pretty much suggests, that he wants to “go ahead”. But he (for some reason) can’t and that’s why he feels like only going backwards.<br /> “Going ahead” in this context means breaking up with his girlfriend as suggested by verse 1:<br /> “But I hear it inside my head all day” means he hears her calling for him all day, which obviously annoys him, because that’s the moment when he realizes that he is “just holding up to the hope(!) that … her(!) feelings dont show”. He hopes, she doesn’t have to much feelings for him, because he doesn’t love her.<br /> In verse 2 the singer assures us, he isn’t the “seed of all this indecision”, because he “decided long ago”. This suggests the singer experienced some kind of trauma quite some time ago and he still barley is able to have any feelings whatsoever. So he “decided” to not love anyone again because he fears the pain again.<br /> And when he’s singing about his hopes, that he got “up again, oh no, not again” he is referring to his hope he will eventually fall in love again. But on the other side, that’s not what he wants (oh no, not again) or that’s what he even is afraid of."
@tiffanyayala99 i really think that it's not the singer who's indecisive. it's someone he sings for. he knows he has feelings for her, but he isnt sure what the girl feels bcs she does not show it well. thus he cannot take the relationship (or whatever it is they have) to the next level.