You're Kind Lyrics

Lyric discussion by fanofoldies 

Cover art for You're Kind lyrics by Paul Simon

I'm wondering whether he left her because she's kind and he doesn't feel he deserves her kindness or that he left because they have nothing in common. Leaving because "I like to sleep with the window open and you keep the window closed" is an excuse.

@fanofoldies No. He leaves he because he gets terrified by the thought of her loving him no matter what. Of her clinging on to him without any kind of reservation, without any apparent motive, without leaving him any options.

It reeks of that opposite of the well-known separation anxiety - the fear of commitment.

But how Paul sketches the situation, it is rather understandable. If someone will keep on loving you out of 'kindness', no matter what you do, say, or want, you are really terribly out of touch with each other.

Then it does not matter how 'kind' she...