JoeMoma
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And he wrote here name on the 50 yard line and call for a good time. So he didn't deserve for her to give him the time of day -- because he was an asshole. Also, the song is from his point of view, with him somehow knowing things about her that he could not or should not have know unless he was stalking her (after high school). My thinking is that he didn't really know that she was in an unhappy marriage in which her husband worked all the time, but in his mind that was true. The persona of the song is an asshole. Is Toby Keith an asshole, I don't know.... but if he is like the persona narrating the lyrics of the song, he is.That is not what the song is about.
The song is about a girl who wouldn't give a boy the time of day, and when he becomes a star. he asks, "How do you like me now?"
When I was in high school, I couldn't get most girls to give me the time of day. Then at my 5-year class reunion I showed up sans glasses, wearing my Navy dress uniform (this was shortly after the movie "Officer and a Gentleman" came out), with a beautiful blonde wife on my arm. I was easily the most popular guy at the reunion. I couldn't help thinking, "How do you like me now?'