Train - 50 Ways to Say Goodbye Meaning

Song Released: 2012

50 Ways to Say Goodbye Lyrics

My heart was paralyzed
My head was over-sized
I'll take the high road like I should
You said, "It's meant to be.
That it's not you it's me."
You're leaving now for my own good

That's cool but if my friends ask where you are I'm gonna...

1. anonymous

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   Mar 29th 2022 !⃝

   The superman/minivan line refers to the new gf he is anticipating/hoping he will have. He declares she will see him as 'superman', rather than 'super minivan' which is slang for a 'fat', drab, boring person. The whole song is him trying to pretend/self-deny that she left him; and put on a brave outer exterior. Deep inside, he is hurting. Her leaving was as if she died to him, because he lost her completely. In his excuses, he tries to sound like he had the upper-hand but the common refrain 'help me, help me' shows his desperation & the truth about his feelings. He is confused, shocked, heartbroken, but simply doesn't want to admit it to his friends or even himself. He speaks as if his prospects of new love were high or inevitable, but deep down he does not know if he will have another who he will love as much as he loved this gf. The 'Yom Kippur' line implies he is of religious background, further adding to this naive, fragile innocence he has in the song. One can almost imagine this is only his first love, and they probably met at a religious social gathering or introduced by parents, etc. Yep, I love this song. :)
2. anonymous

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   Sep 30th 2020 !⃝

   It's a song that explains how he feels after his girlfriend died, how he doesn't want his buddies to know, he covers it up just by saying, "She Died".
3. anonymous

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   Jun 14th 2018 !⃝

   I think that is a funny song
4. anonymous

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   Jun 6th 2015 !⃝

   His girlfriend cheated on him and the love he felt for her died.
5. anonymous

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   Jun 29th 2014 !⃝

   I think he was going to break up with his girlfriend (the line that goes "She'll think I'm Superman, not Super-Minivan") and he's embarrassed that his girlfriend got to it first. He obviously complained to his friends that she was a bad girlfriend and doesn't want them to know that he was such a bad boyfriend that he deserved a breakup ("I returned everything I ever bought her." How does that mean she died? It doesn't, it means he broke up with her). He's also saying she died, like all "Her? Break up with ME? Never! I broke up with HER! She died! etc."
6. anonymous

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   Apr 14th 2013 !⃝

   His girlfriend left him and he's embarrassed so he sad that she died.
7. anonymous

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   Nov 9th 2012 !⃝

   His girlfriend and him broke up and he doesn't want his friends to know, so he covers it up and says she died
8. anonymous

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   Nov 1st 2012 !⃝

   Since the song is called 50 ways to say goodbye, I guess that does mean that his girlfriend left him, but he doesn't want to be embarassed, so he covers it up by saying she died.
9. anonymous

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   Oct 28th 2012 !⃝

   that his girfreind left him but he gonna tell his friends something else because he doesnt want them to know