"50 Ways to Leave Your Lover"Paul Simon
Featured on Greatest Hits, Etc.
Columbia
Song originally released December 1975
Rock
Vinyl
B
I wouldn't swear to it that I heard this song when it was #1 and I was around eight, but it was one of those "adult" things, like Watergate, that filtered down to my Gen-X childhood through later '70s sitcoms. Listening to it now, I more than ever want to know who the "she" the singer is having the conversation with is supposed to be. A sympathetic friend who seduces him with a kiss and an offer to "both sleep on it"? A random stranger he's confided in but who can't count? The lover he's actually hoping to leave, with a "Piña Colada" twist? Maybe I'm still not old enough to know.
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