@[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.
Our band could be your life
Real names'd be proof
Me and Mike Watt, we played for years
Punk rock changed our lives
We learned punk rock in Hollywood
Drove up from Pedro
We were fucking corn dogs
We'd go drink and pogo
Mr. Narrator
This is Bob Dylan to me
My story could be his songs
I'm his soldier child
Our band is scientist rock
But I was E. Bloom and Richard Hell
Joe Strummer, and John Doe
Me and Mike Watt, playing the guitar
Real names'd be proof
Me and Mike Watt, we played for years
Punk rock changed our lives
We learned punk rock in Hollywood
Drove up from Pedro
We were fucking corn dogs
We'd go drink and pogo
Mr. Narrator
This is Bob Dylan to me
My story could be his songs
I'm his soldier child
Our band is scientist rock
But I was E. Bloom and Richard Hell
Joe Strummer, and John Doe
Me and Mike Watt, playing the guitar
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The first time I heard this, I could not possibly have heard the line "We were fucking corn dogs" any more clearly.
And yet, I immediately asked myself "Did I really hear that correctly?"
So I looked the lyrics up, and indeed my senses and brain were not misleadingly they way they did when I thought Jimi sang " 'Scuze me while I kiss this guy".
Not that there's anything wrong with it.
I'm almost afraid to find out but I have to ask, what does that line mean?
@Spongeworthy from dictionary.com:<br /> corndog, noun<br /> <br /> An eccentric and socially inept person; dweeb, geek (1980s+ Students)<br /> <br /> i think the "fucking" is just there for emphasis, basically he's saying that back then they were losers. fair to say anybody who's not au fait with 80s slang could be misled by that line, lol !