Still Crazy After All These Years by Paul Simon
They always left you. It's not that it didn't work out. Teenaged love isn't supposed to work out. No, it's the way they dumped you before you even had time to think maybe the end was coming.
The other big hit on this album was "Fifty Ways to Leave Your Lover" but this was the song that summed up the attitude a seventeen-or-eighteen-year-old smooth clean girl in Indian cotton had about leaving you. It's that anticipatory nostalgia again and you'd be watching her listening and realize with a terrified jolt that she was smiling through the saxophone solo at the thought of meeting you years from now because she's about to dump you soon and she is already savouring the bittersweet feeling of looking back on you.
They always left you. It's not that it didn't work out. Teenaged love isn't supposed to work out. No, it's the way they dumped you before you even had time to think maybe the end was coming.
The other big hit on this album was "Fifty Ways to Leave Your Lover" but this was the song that summed up the attitude a seventeen-or-eighteen-year-old smooth clean girl in Indian cotton had about leaving you. It's that anticipatory nostalgia again and you'd be watching her listening and realize with a terrified jolt that she was smiling through the saxophone solo at the thought of meeting you years from now because she's about to dump you soon and she is already savouring the bittersweet feeling of looking back on you.
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