@[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 was taking all the pills to stop me feeling ill again
Supermarket shelves collapsing at the till again
Doctor couldn't help patients running out again
Where's the next step up?
All went blank for a couple of pages
Hazy recollection of staring for ages, and ages
So I didn't know how, I didn't know when
An easy choice became the trend
Weakening the thrills, less money to spend
Someone had a car borrowed from a friend
Memory distortion ten years on and back again
Thrills a generation crash into the window pane
Another empty parking space
A friend of ours was here
We drank a lot of beer
Next day his Vauxhall Cavalier
Had gone and disappeared
Taking all the pills only went so far
Did tou get the thrills when you took the car?
Driving up the price of running out of anything
Caught in the distortion, distortion of escapism brutality
He's wasted - escapist - in his overdrawn reality
He's wasted - He's wasted - He's wasted - He's wasted
Supermarket shelves collapsing at the till again
Doctor couldn't help patients running out again
Where's the next step up?
All went blank for a couple of pages
Hazy recollection of staring for ages, and ages
So I didn't know how, I didn't know when
An easy choice became the trend
Weakening the thrills, less money to spend
Someone had a car borrowed from a friend
Memory distortion ten years on and back again
Thrills a generation crash into the window pane
Another empty parking space
A friend of ours was here
We drank a lot of beer
Next day his Vauxhall Cavalier
Had gone and disappeared
Taking all the pills only went so far
Did tou get the thrills when you took the car?
Driving up the price of running out of anything
Caught in the distortion, distortion of escapism brutality
He's wasted - escapist - in his overdrawn reality
He's wasted - He's wasted - He's wasted - He's wasted
Lyrics submitted by ThECr4cKFa1rY
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Great version of a great song,
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