@[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 could be a soldier
Go out there and fight to save this land
Be a people's soldier
Paramilitary gun in hand
I won't be a soldier
I won't take no orders from no-one
Stuff their fucking armies
Killing isn't my idea of fun
And they want to waste my life
They want to waste my time
They want to waste my life
And they've stolen it away
I could be a hero
Live and die for their important cause
A united nation
Or an independent state with laws
And rules and regulations
That merely cause disturbances and wars
And that's what I have got now
All thanks to the freedom-seeking hordes
And they want to waste my life
They want to waste my time
They want to waste my life
And they've stolen it away
I'm not gonna be taken in
They said if I don't join, I just can't win
I've heard that story many times before
And every time I threw it out the door
Still they come up to me
With a different name but the same old face
I can see the connection
With another time and a different place
Now, they ain't blonde-haired or blue-eyed
But they think that they're a master race
They're nothing but blind fascists
Brought up to hate and given lives to waste
And they want to waste my life
They want to waste my time
They want to waste my life
And they've stolen it away
What they wanna do, they want to waste my life
They want to waste my time
They want to waste my life
And they've stolen it away
Go out there and fight to save this land
Be a people's soldier
Paramilitary gun in hand
I won't be a soldier
I won't take no orders from no-one
Stuff their fucking armies
Killing isn't my idea of fun
And they want to waste my life
They want to waste my time
They want to waste my life
And they've stolen it away
I could be a hero
Live and die for their important cause
A united nation
Or an independent state with laws
And rules and regulations
That merely cause disturbances and wars
And that's what I have got now
All thanks to the freedom-seeking hordes
And they want to waste my life
They want to waste my time
They want to waste my life
And they've stolen it away
I'm not gonna be taken in
They said if I don't join, I just can't win
I've heard that story many times before
And every time I threw it out the door
Still they come up to me
With a different name but the same old face
I can see the connection
With another time and a different place
Now, they ain't blonde-haired or blue-eyed
But they think that they're a master race
They're nothing but blind fascists
Brought up to hate and given lives to waste
And they want to waste my life
They want to waste my time
They want to waste my life
And they've stolen it away
What they wanna do, they want to waste my life
They want to waste my time
They want to waste my life
And they've stolen it away
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Wasted Life Lyrics as written by Jake Burns
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cant belive im the first to comment on this song, one of slf's best and just as relevent now as it was when written.
I'm sorry to disappoint you my friend, but the 'armies' they are speaking out against is the IRA and other paramilitary organizations that were active in Northern Ireland at that time.
I'm sorry to disappoint you my friend, but the 'armies' they are speaking out against is the IRA and other paramilitary organizations that were active in Northern Ireland at that time.
'feelin da rithim' - yeah wikid m8. Hopefully, when you get older you’ll eventually learn not to talk like a spasticated mong.
I didn't know what this song was about until I joined the Army.
this song is about spitting in tha face of th ira, uff,uvf, etc...
I always thought this was just an anti-war song like Tin Soldier, but now that I think about it it's more like not wanting to be caught up in the whole uvf ira thing. I feel that, I get really pissed off when kids in my class write UVF or IRA all over their books... I mean come on, they're kids, they barely remeber the troubles. I wish they'd get the fuck over it.
i think its kinda obvious da meanin of this song but woa ma mum dad preti much evri one of aunti n uncles wer in da armi n ma grandad tryin to convince me to join da navi but thers chance of dat hapnin n dis song just completi baks it al up n its wot i sai to dem peace out
iv had anutha thought i think it meens dat thru da violence and wars theiv realised dat it dont mata whos in charge or who wins da war they al hav tha same efect on you n its the same wid religion