“Missing Hippie John, salad days are gone / Remembering things just to tell ’em so long”. The hook consists of DeMarco singing in a scat style, which is taken from rock band The Kinks track “Picture Book”. DeMarco opens the song discussing how as he grows older, he gets more jaded and pessimistic, and how you just end up dying in the end after working hard all your life. “As I’m getting older, chip on my shoulder / Rolling through life, to roll over and die”. In today’s terms or in terms of the track, Mac DeMarco could be referring to his “salad days” being the peak and most successful point in his career. It’s from Cleopatra’s line from when she reminisces of her youth with Julius Caesar: “…My salad days / When I was green in judgment, cold in blood…”. The title “Salad Days” comes from the 16th century Shakespeare play “Antony and Cleopatra”.
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