TRAIN - 50 Ways To Say Goodbye

My heart is paralyzed My head was oversized 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 say She went down in an airplane Fried getting suntanned Fell in a cement mixer full of quicksand Help me, help me, I'm no good at goodbyes! She met a shark under water 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 My pride still feels the sting You were my everything Some day I'll find a love like yours (a love like yours) She'll think I'm Superman Not super minivan How could you leave on Yom Kippur? That's cool, but if my friends ask where you are I'm gonna say

She was caught in a mudslide Eaten by a lion Got run over by a crappy purple Scion Help me, help me, I'm no 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 me, I'm all out of lies And ways to say you died I wanna live a thousand lives with you I wanna be the one you're dying to love... But you don't want to

NEW WORDS

suntanned - засмаглий

Synonyms: bronzed, burned, brown

Sentence examples:

"Sunburns and suntans are signs that your skin has been damaged."

"You can always tell you're in a football environment because all the women have very long, very straight blonde hair and impossible suntans while the men are all jowly and laugh too loudly."

quicksand- сипучий пісок

Synonyms: pit, cavity Sentence examples:

"Victims are sucked down by quicksands and drowned by the tides that can race in faster than a man can run."

"When an old coach route from Lancaster to Kendal used to take a shortcut across the bay, several coaches were either overtaken by the tide or sucked under in quicksand."

sting - жало, укус

Synonyms: bite, hurt, inspire

Sentence examples:

"What the books often don't tell you is that there are another set of spikes on the side of the gill plates, which can also inflict a painful sting."

"Although scorpion stings can be devastatingly painful, they are not usually lethal to humans."

minivan - авто

Synonyms: car, van, auto, automobile, machine, motorcar

Sentence examples:

"Thus, an 8-passenger minivan that gets 25 mpg must not be considered a gas-guzzler."

"He's sitting in the front seat of that Mercedes minivan for the quick drive back to the Vatican."

mudslide - зсув

Synonyms: landslide, landslip

Sentence examples:

"Sporadic systems are those that produce avalanches, earthquakes, mudslides, volcanic eruptions and such like."

"Most victims were crushed by falling buildings or buried by mudslides but four people died of heart attacks after the tremors on Wednesday, officials said."

tub - ванна

Synonyms: bathtub, bathing tub, bath, tub, vessel

Sentence examples:

"The ones previously planted out into a tub are really growing well; the ones in the cold frame are still little."

"Planted in a deep tub, within a couple of seasons it will reach for the sky and festoon your railings with its sweet scented flowers."

Yom Kippur - Четверта арабо-ізраїльська війна або Війна Судного дня (6-25 жовтня 1973)

Sentence examples:

"God can be served not only in the solemnity of a Yom Kippur, but also in the revelry of a Purim."

"If anyone sent us a Diwali card or a Yom Kippur cracker we would be delighted, not offended."

The song follows a similar theme to Paul Simon's "50 Ways To Leave Your Lover," though in this instance it's the narrator's pride that has been hurt as he looks for excuses to tell his friends why she's disappeared from his life.

Though the song's title claims there are 50 ways to say goodbye, we can only find 11 lies about his farewell the protagonist tells, all involving his former beau's demise. They are: 1. Went down in an airplane. 2. Fried getting suntan. 3. Fell in a cement mixer full of quicksand. 4. She met a shark under water. 5. Fell and no one caught her. 6. Caught in a mudslide. 7. Eaten by a lion. 8. Got run over by a crappy purple Scion. 9. Dried up in the desert. 10. Drowned in a hot tub. 11. Danced to death at an east side night club.