City And Colour's first single is "Save Your Scissors", a song that addresses an on-again off-again relationship that Dallas had for many years, in which a girl wanted him to be somebody that he essentially wasn't. "It's sort of a metaphor for girls who have tried to change me from who I am and what I want to be, into what they want. And it's like, no, save your scissors for somebody else. Don't try to change me cause it's not gonna work." In one lyric he asks: "Why does it always seem that every time I turn around, somebody else falls in love with me?" Dallas explains: "I think that a lot of girls tend to think I'm somebody who I'm not, or I'm something different from what I am. I don't say that in a conceited way. I think when you put yourself out in the public eye people think they have a relationship with you that they really don't."
From an interview he did.
Either way, it's a beautiful song, and amazing to hear live.
City And Colour's first single is "Save Your Scissors", a song that addresses an on-again off-again relationship that Dallas had for many years, in which a girl wanted him to be somebody that he essentially wasn't. "It's sort of a metaphor for girls who have tried to change me from who I am and what I want to be, into what they want. And it's like, no, save your scissors for somebody else. Don't try to change me cause it's not gonna work." In one lyric he asks: "Why does it always seem that every time I turn around, somebody else falls in love with me?" Dallas explains: "I think that a lot of girls tend to think I'm somebody who I'm not, or I'm something different from what I am. I don't say that in a conceited way. I think when you put yourself out in the public eye people think they have a relationship with you that they really don't."
From an interview he did.
Either way, it's a beautiful song, and amazing to hear live.