50 Ways To Leave Your Lover Lyrics

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Cover art for 50 Ways To Leave Your Lover lyrics by Paul Simon

A man is continuously lamenting his inability to leave his wife with his mistress.

The mistress, who is compassionate but at this point completely done with his cogitation and delay standing in the way of both of their happiness, pushes him one last time to make the change, but he just can’t figure it out. All his options seem unachievable.

So she shows him. They sleep on it — and in the morning, she’s gone.

My Interpretation
Negative
Subjective
Sadness
Relationship
Indecision
Departure
Unhappiness
Betrayal