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Fifty Ways to Leave Your Lover
Paul Simon / Paul Simon: Still Crazy After all Those Years (1975)
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| "The problem's | all inside your | head," she said to | me: | "The answer is | easy if you | take it logic' | lly. |
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| I'd like to | help you in your | struggle to be | free; there must be | fifty | ways to leave your | lover." |
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| She said, "It's | really not my | habit to in | trude; Further | more I hope my | meaning won't be | lost or miscon | strued. |
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| But I re | peat myself at the | risk of being | crude: |
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| "There must be | fifty | ways to leave your | lover. | Fifty | ways to leave your | lover." |
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| |: Just slip out the | back, Jack.- Make a new | plan, Stan; |
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| You don't need to be | coy, Roy, just | | get yourself | free. | | listen to | me. | | |
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| Hop on the | bus, Gus; - You don't need to dis | cuss much; Just drop off the | key, Lee. - and get yourself | free. | :| |
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| She said, "It | grieves me now to | see you in such | pain; |
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| I wish there | was somethin' I | could do to | make you smile a | gain." |
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| I said, "I ap | preciate that, | and | would you please ex | plain about the Emfifty ways?" |
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| She said, "Why | don't we both just | sleep on it to | night; I be | lieve in the | morning you'll be | gin to see the | light." |
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| And then she | kissed me and I | realized she | probably was | right; |
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| there must be | fifty | ways to leave your | lover, fifty | ways to leave your | lover." |
| Just slip out back, Jack.... |