This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
To pay or not to pay that is the question
It refused to stay as it all turned grey
Or William Shakespeare's receding hair
Please excuse the pun, it's hair today, gone tomorrow
So be thankful for what precious locks you have
Toupee, or not toupee, that is the question
And by the way, I just gotta say,
Thank the Lord I'm not going bald
And if I may quip, my curls and I
Are just like heaven
And rest assured, there'll be no parting there
But should my head get bare like Frier Tuck
Hard taste to swallow
It makes me smile, 'cause I know just what I'd do
Yeah if I had more wigs, than I knew what to do with
I'd open a second hand store
And if you ever went bald, you'd recall it
'Cause I'd cleverly call it 'Rugs from me to you'
It refused to stay as it all turned grey
Or William Shakespeare's receding hair
Please excuse the pun, it's hair today, gone tomorrow
So be thankful for what precious locks you have
Toupee, or not toupee, that is the question
And by the way, I just gotta say,
Thank the Lord I'm not going bald
And if I may quip, my curls and I
Are just like heaven
And rest assured, there'll be no parting there
But should my head get bare like Frier Tuck
Hard taste to swallow
It makes me smile, 'cause I know just what I'd do
Yeah if I had more wigs, than I knew what to do with
I'd open a second hand store
And if you ever went bald, you'd recall it
'Cause I'd cleverly call it 'Rugs from me to you'
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I love this song! It's so cute, and I love how there are so many puns in it.
Only thing is, I think that it should be "toupee" not "to pay" - a toupee is a hairpiece, and another word for that is a "rug", which explains the title, and the name of his store.
Anyway, I think that this song is definitely about appreciating what you have:
"It's hair today, gone tomorrow" "So be thankful for what precious locks you have"
I think that those two parts especially convey the messagae that Adam is trying to get across. Love this song!
The whole song is a pun...about hair so it's both 'to pay' and 'toupee'
Adam Young is such a genius
So cute and pure, can't stop smiling!
This song is about appreciating what u have, and really enjoying it. To emphasize the enjoyment thing, he made the song fun and catchy and very "punny" hehehehe also he loves his hair
Adam is talking about being old and finally saying goodbye to the things that once made us feel we're young. So he used the hair as a pun. (When we get old, our hair turns white and eventually fall.) But at the same time, he says that it shouldn't end there if we don't want it after all. That is why he used the word "toupee" in the following verse. Toupee is a wig. As the person in the song is getting bald due to old age, toupee could mean a second chance/continuation of the story. So what the song advocates is to appreciate whatever we have and enjoy when we still have time; AND if God allows us, let us face our mistakes in the past and make things right now. The closing part says that if we have something to share, let others learn from us - from our mistakes.
I just gotta add: "To pay or not to pay" and "toupee or not toupee" because it gives space for a chance to change or not to change. It's like "what? are you fucking making things right or not?" It's all about enjoying what we have, making wrong things right, and be willing to do it.
OH MY GOSH.
He is so awesome it's indescribable.
He can write an awesome song about the dentist, appropriate, sweet love songs, AND a song about hair. He is so amazing. :)
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Great song! =) So funny!
a song all about hair!!and apreciating what you have!!!!
This song is so obviously about appreciating what you have, but that aside, FUNNIEST REAL SONG I HAVE EVER HEAR!!!!I CRACK UP EVERY TIME I HEAR IT!!!! Only Adam Young would make a song about hair. He sure does love his hair. LOL JUST THINKING ABOUT THIS SONG IS FUNNY XD