@[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've looked under chairs
I've looked under tables
I've tried to find the key
To fifty million fables
[Chorus]
They call me The Seeker
I've been searching low and high
I won't get to get what I'm after
Till the day I die
I asked Bobby Dylan
I asked The Beatles
I asked Timothy Leary
But he couldn't help me either
[Chorus]
People tend to hate me
Cause I never smile
As I ransack their homes
They want to shake my hand
Focusing on nowhere
Investigating miles
I'm a seeker
I'm a really desperate man
I won't get to get what I'm after
Till the day I die
I learned how to raise my voice in anger
Yeah, but look at my face, ain't this a smile?
I'm happy when life's good
And when it's bad I cry
I've got values but I don't know how or why
I'm looking for me
You're looking for you
We're looking at each other
And we don't know what to do
[Chorus]
I've looked under tables
I've tried to find the key
To fifty million fables
[Chorus]
They call me The Seeker
I've been searching low and high
I won't get to get what I'm after
Till the day I die
I asked Bobby Dylan
I asked The Beatles
I asked Timothy Leary
But he couldn't help me either
[Chorus]
People tend to hate me
Cause I never smile
As I ransack their homes
They want to shake my hand
Focusing on nowhere
Investigating miles
I'm a seeker
I'm a really desperate man
I won't get to get what I'm after
Till the day I die
I learned how to raise my voice in anger
Yeah, but look at my face, ain't this a smile?
I'm happy when life's good
And when it's bad I cry
I've got values but I don't know how or why
I'm looking for me
You're looking for you
We're looking at each other
And we don't know what to do
[Chorus]
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I think this song is about a person who is still searching for their place in life. When he says he has asked Bobby Dylan, The Beatles, Timothy Leary.. has is talking about how he has looked around in his environment for role models on how to live his life. So far no where he has looked has provided him with answers. The fact that he says he won't get to get what he is after until the day he dies is basically him saying he doesn't believe he'll know how to live his life.. (or find the secret to life, that is) until he has lived it and dies. (Whether that means he thinks there is a god who will tell him.. or he will be able to look back and figure out what worked.. he doesn't say). He is a "really desperate man" to figure out where to go from here, though.
this is the one song that is my entire philosphy on life this is exsclly what i think about every thing me and a 1000 others we are "the seekers"
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Dude. I love this song. I call myself the seeker all the time. I am the seeker whether it be for truth, love, or life.
Dude I'm one of those people. I love this song becuase i call myself "the seeker". It doesn't matter if it's for truth, love, or life.
An ode for the youth of the nation and it still has meaning for all time. I first heard this song while I was watching American Beauty. It was the scene introducing the final act of the film. Great, great song for a great, great movie!
ROCKING SONG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Love this song, it's pretty self explanatory. Came about after Tommy, when the Who were facing the dilemma of how they would oversome the success of Tommy.
I think this song may be about psychadelic drugs...Not a big leap for the Who, and there is generally a feeling of needing to accomplish something, but you can't figure out what it is. You need to be somewhere, but you have no idea where. The reference to Timothy Leary also adds to this, as he was one of the biggest proponets of the benefits of LSD use.
"I won't get to get what I'm after Till the day I die"
existentialism, perchance?