Sunday Sermon: "Holiday"

{Welcome to 1967! This early song from the Bee Gees raises many questions--for instance, who was the mysterious ‘puppet’? What was the point of throwing stones or of the narrator asking for a pillow to be put on his head? The chorus ‘De de de de de de de, de de de de’ perfectly sums up the song's significance.}

Holiday (by the Bee Gees)

Ooh you're a holiday
Such a holiday
Ooh you're a holiday
Such a holiday

It's something I thinks worthwhile
If the puppet makes you smile
If not then you're throwing stones
Throwing stones, throwing stones

Ooh it's a funny game
Don't believe that it's all the same
Can't think what I've just said
Put the soft pillow on my head

Millions of eyes can see
Yet why am I so blind
When the someone else is me
It's unkind, it's unkind

De de de de de de de de, de de de
De de de de de de de de de de de

Yet millions of eyes can see
Yet why am I so blind
When the someone else is me
It's unkind, it's unkind

Ooh you're a holiday
Every day, such a holiday
Now it's my turn to say
And I say you're a holiday

It's something I think's worthwhile
If the puppet makes you smile
If not then you're throwing stones
Throwing stones, throwing stones

De de de de de de de de, de de de
De de de de de de de de, de

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Source: Musixmatch

Songwriters: Robin Hugh Gibb / Barry Alan Gibb

Holiday lyrics © Crompton Songs, Redbreast Publishing Ltd.

The pathos of this video speaks for itself: Bee Gees Holiday 1967) [High Quality Stereo Sound, Subtitled] (youtube.com)