#50wasytosaygoodbye

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"50 Ways To Say Goodbye" By Train

Listen to the song here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpTWpXciCGQ

This song is a singing contradiction. Firstly, he says "My heart is paralysed, my head was over sized, I'll take the high-road like I should" He was in shock that it ended, he thought that it was butterfly's and daisy's and that he won't act like a baby about it, he will be fine with it. Then he says's "You said it's meant to be, that it's not you it's me, you're leaving now for my own good" She was trying to turn it around, like breaking up with him was a good thing, for both of them. Then this is the part I really love: "That's cool but id my friends ask where you are I'm gonna say" and you can tell by that single line, the chorus is going to be a lot of fun. 

"She went down in an aeroplane, fried getting suntanned, fell in a cement mixer full of quicksand, help me help me, I'm no good at good byes! She met a shark underwater, fell and no one caught her, I returned everything I ever bought her, help me help me I'm all out of lies, and ways to say you died." That is the contradiction. In the line before the chorus he says, yeah that's fine, I'm okay with it, but I'm going to say this when my friends ask where you are now. He's being very passive aggressive when it comes to this break-up and I love how he's totally okay listing all ways she can die, the ways she dies makes her sound superficial. 

Okay, I'm going to skip over the next verse, because it's basically the same as the first, except when he says "not super minivan" It's say that she thinks he's getting serious and wants to start a family. The next verse is also very passive aggressive of the guy: "She was caught in a mud-slide, eaten by lion, got ran over by a crappy purple Scion, help me help I'm not good at goodbyes!, she dried up in the desert, drowned in a hot tub, danced to death at an east side night club, help me help I'm all our of lies! and ways to say you died" This is continuing on with the superficial interpretation of her, and the deaths are getting more gruesome, I mean, she's getting eaten by a lion.

By the way, I counted how many ways to kill this girl there where in the song. There's 11. 

-A