@[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.
Lover mine
Get your coat and come outside
I wanna take you for a ride
On into town
Lover fair
We'll be looking sharp, I swear
I want them all to stop and stare
When we take 'em down
Go to town, burn it down, turn around
and get your stroll on, baby
I'll get the car
You get the match
And gasoline
And as we ride
Away into the countryside
I feel as though I must confide
There is a cost
When you say
Now we got Hell to pay
Don't worry, baby, that's okay
I know the boss
Get your coat and come outside
I wanna take you for a ride
On into town
Lover fair
We'll be looking sharp, I swear
I want them all to stop and stare
When we take 'em down
Go to town, burn it down, turn around
and get your stroll on, baby
I'll get the car
You get the match
And gasoline
And as we ride
Away into the countryside
I feel as though I must confide
There is a cost
When you say
Now we got Hell to pay
Don't worry, baby, that's okay
I know the boss
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Why no love? This is one of the coolest songs ever written. Go to town. Burn it down. Turn around. And get your stroll on baby.
Oh man here's some love. This is one of my favorite songs. Either way, I think it is basically about a guy and his woman going to town and "setting the night on fire." The lines about gasoline are probably merely symbolic, as he's singing about making "them stop and stare" etc.
Until the other day, I never realized how much the instrumental part of this track osunds like Candy O by the Cars. A phenomenal song (well, two [phenomenal songs) and a Dulli classic.
I think they literally burn the town down for some reason, why else would he say, "when you say, now we got hell to pay, don't worry that's ok, I know the boss."
This very well could be just a meaningless love song, but I give them the benefit of the doubt because they're usually so fucking dark... imagine this being sung by Charles Starkweather to Caril Ann Fugate... creepy, isnt it?
This very well could be just a meaningless love song, but I give them the benefit of the doubt because they're usually so fucking dark... imagine this being sung by Charles Starkweather to Caril Ann Fugate... creepy, isnt it?
I think the lyrics are about getting into a relationship you know you're going to regret later, but doing it anyway. Everyone loves that first flash of infatuation when you're in a new relationship. But they know from the get-go that they're no good for each other, so screw it, "let's go to town and burn it down", let's ride this doomed relationship for all its worth. They know they're headed for heartbreak, and there's going to be "hell to pay", but the protagonist has had his heart broken so many times, it's familiar (even comfortable) territory, as when he sings "that's ok, I know the boss".
Anyway, that's just my take on it.