Fifty Ways to Leave Your Lover

Paul Simon / Paul Simon: Still Crazy After all Those Years (1975)

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	"The problem is	all inside your	head," she said to	me:

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	"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;

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there must be	fifty	ways to leave your	lover."

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	She said, "It's	really not my	habit to intrude;

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Furthermore	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."

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	Fifty	ways to leave your	lover."

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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	fifty ways?"

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She said, "Why	don't we both just	sleep on it to	night;

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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; there must be

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	fifty	ways to leave your	lover, fifty	ways to leave your	lover."