My Conviction Lyrics - Hair

I wish every mother and father in this theater 

Would go home tonight and make a speech to their teenagers 

And say kids be free, no guilt 

Be whoever you are, do whatever you want to do 

Just as long as you don't hurt anybody, right? Right 

I would just like to say that it is my conviction 

That longer hair and other flamboyant affectations 

Of appearance are nothing more than the male's emergence 

From his drab camouflage into the gaudy plumage 

Which is the birth right of his sex 

There is a peculiar notion that elegant plumage 

And fine feathers are not proper for the man 

When actually that is the way things are in most species