Authors Note: This is my point of view piece. I used that song " 50 Ways To Say Goodbye," by the band Train. This piece is about how point of view effects how we see or interpret the song. If it was in a different point of view we would think different of the song. I have put the lyrics of the song below so you can see the whole song.
"50 Ways To Say Goodbye"
Train
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
Someday 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
That's cool, but if my friends ask where you are I'm gonna say
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
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
50 Ways To Say Goodbye was a song written by Train. It's about his girlfriend broke up with him and he is ashamed to tell his friends so he says that she died and that he isn't devastated. The whole song is basically him thinking of as many ways to tell his friends how his ex "died". In the first stanza it says that she broke up with him because this head was over sized and that it was because he had her. It also says that she left him for his own good. The song was written in the boys point of view, he was heartbroken and didn't want to look like a loser or weak in front of his friends because his heart was broken.
If the song was written in the girls point of view I think that the song would say how he was too cocky and braggy about what he had. So, she left him and she thought that leaving him would make him change to the way he was before. Instead of changing he tells everyone that she died and that he doesn’t really care for her anymore even though on the inside he is heartbroken and devastated. The girl is probably astonished that he would tell her that he loves her but then go off and tell his friends that he has no more feelings for her and isn’t upset at all.
I think the girl would also be hurt because he lied to all of his friends and said that she died, instead of telling the truth by just saying that they broke up. In my mind he betrays her by making up useless lies about how she died. The ways that he says she dies aren’t even reasonable lies. “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” This is part of one stanza from the song, all of these are very unusual ways to die.
50 Ways To Say Goodbye was written in the point of view of the heart broken or the boy. If it was written in the girls point of view the song would be totally different. The song could change so much just from changing the point of view it comes from,( or the person). Point of view matters, you may not realized it but it is in every piece of writing. Even in the sentences that come out of our very own mouths. The point of view of the song is that he is heartbroken yet.
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