Hair - My Conviction lyrics

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 s** 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