@[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.
Hey little girl, is your daddy home
Did he go away and leave you all alone
I got a bad desire
Oh, oh, oh, I'm on fire
Tell me now baby, is he good to you
Can he do to you the things that I do
I can take you higher
Oh, oh, oh, I'm on fire
It's like someone took a knife
Edgy and dull and cut a six-inch valley
Through the middle of my skull
At night I wake up with the sheets soaking wet
And a freight train running through the middle of my head
Only you can cool my desire
Oh, oh, oh I'm on fire
Oh, oh, oh I'm on fire
Hey little girl, is your daddy home
Did he go away and leave you all alone
I got a bad desire
Oh, oh, oh I'm on fire
Tell me now baby, is he good to you
Can he do to you the things that I do
I can take you higher
Oh, oh, oh I'm on fire
I'm on fire
I'm on fire
I'm on fire
Did he go away and leave you all alone
I got a bad desire
Oh, oh, oh, I'm on fire
Tell me now baby, is he good to you
Can he do to you the things that I do
I can take you higher
Oh, oh, oh, I'm on fire
It's like someone took a knife
Edgy and dull and cut a six-inch valley
Through the middle of my skull
At night I wake up with the sheets soaking wet
And a freight train running through the middle of my head
Only you can cool my desire
Oh, oh, oh I'm on fire
Oh, oh, oh I'm on fire
Hey little girl, is your daddy home
Did he go away and leave you all alone
I got a bad desire
Oh, oh, oh I'm on fire
Tell me now baby, is he good to you
Can he do to you the things that I do
I can take you higher
Oh, oh, oh I'm on fire
I'm on fire
I'm on fire
I'm on fire
Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher
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I have listened to this son on repeat and looked up the lyrics because "little girl" and "daddy" threw me off as I fig this wasnt a pedophile song. I also saw its a cover to Bruce's music !
Brilliant lyrics and love John Mayers arrangement even more so.
It seems that this guy previously knew this girl or had seen her before and when asking if her daddy's home he was checking on her. He asks if her daddys good to her and knows that he could treat her better and be better to her.
He is tormented so much that he sweats on the sheets at night while sleeping and dreaming of having her. Obsessed.
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