@[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.
Invisible, Inviting Vision Linger.
This Swirl Of Smoke Looks LIke Her Slender Body.
I See Everything In Frames Now. Golden Gilded.
Rippled Edges Wave Goodnight.
Lightsleeper. What's Keeping You From Waking?
This Shallow Stare Has Said It All.
Your Cold Dark Face Reminds Me Of The Night We Learned To Smoke.
Fireflies At Our Lips.
Thirty Seven Years Until I Show My Face Again.
Steal This Moment. Make It Worth Saving.
Choke Down The Clouds That Cloud Your Head Now.
It Would Make My Gloomy Day.
Whoever You Are You've Stayed Far Away For Too Long.
The Clocks Are Flipping On Their Backs.
Don't Stay Too Late. I'll Fizzle And Fade.
A Statue Of Stoned Beliefs.
A Monument To Monumental Dying Thoughts.
Let The Currents Take Us Where They Will.
From This Hill I Can See The World Unfold Before Me.
I'm Brooding Over Broken Nights.
I Break Each Sentence Like A Limb.
This Is My Exit.
I Storm Out Stage Left.
It'll Feel Like I Left You So Long Ago.
These Arms Will Bleed. I'll Be Waiting.
I'll Be Waiting With Wishful Elation.
Lightsleeper, You Could Make My Gloomy Day.
Make This Moment Worth Saving.
This Swirl Of Smoke Looks LIke Her Slender Body.
I See Everything In Frames Now. Golden Gilded.
Rippled Edges Wave Goodnight.
Lightsleeper. What's Keeping You From Waking?
This Shallow Stare Has Said It All.
Your Cold Dark Face Reminds Me Of The Night We Learned To Smoke.
Fireflies At Our Lips.
Thirty Seven Years Until I Show My Face Again.
Steal This Moment. Make It Worth Saving.
Choke Down The Clouds That Cloud Your Head Now.
It Would Make My Gloomy Day.
Whoever You Are You've Stayed Far Away For Too Long.
The Clocks Are Flipping On Their Backs.
Don't Stay Too Late. I'll Fizzle And Fade.
A Statue Of Stoned Beliefs.
A Monument To Monumental Dying Thoughts.
Let The Currents Take Us Where They Will.
From This Hill I Can See The World Unfold Before Me.
I'm Brooding Over Broken Nights.
I Break Each Sentence Like A Limb.
This Is My Exit.
I Storm Out Stage Left.
It'll Feel Like I Left You So Long Ago.
These Arms Will Bleed. I'll Be Waiting.
I'll Be Waiting With Wishful Elation.
Lightsleeper, You Could Make My Gloomy Day.
Make This Moment Worth Saving.
Lyrics submitted by X405pastmidnight
Fireflies Lyrics as written by Daniel Parker Stephenie Steph Jones
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Walt Disney Music Company, Songtrust Ave, Hipgnosis Songs Group
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"Your cold dark face reminds me of the night we learned to smoke, fireflies at our lips" a very beautifully poetic line but is he reflecting over her dead body of the many memories they shared?
"Thirty-seven years until I show my face again, steal this moment, make it worth saving." Either a reference to a jail sentence or his going into hiding after the action. So he takes this opportunity, as it will be the last action he takes before he must leave and remembers every second of the last moments of his dying love.
"Light sleeper, what keeps you from waking?" as he hovers over her bed in the dark...
"The clocks are flipping on their backs" a metaphor for the death of time, the end of a life, her time is up.
"I'm brooding over broken nights, I break each sentence like a limb, like a limb" as he hacks apart the pieces to her body.
The song closes with him screaming in a violent fit, maybe the actual thrust of the knife into her body. This might be a really twisted interpretation of a beautiful song, like I said I've listened to this song for years and this only just occurred to me.