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The Way She Says Goodbye

from Songs From The Second Floor by Rob Paravonian

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This is a song about that thing that people do when they want to break up but don't want to be the one to who does the breaking up, so they just become unbearable by starting fights, complaining, criticizing—basically making the other person's life hell until they've had enough and they initiate the breakup, thus absolving the person who originally wanted to break up of any guilt for the failure of the relationship.

I use the emotionally and politically-charged word “bitch” a lot in this song (25x) but would like it noted for the record that it’s used 24 times as a verb meaning “to complain, etc.” and the one time it’s used as a noun is when I say someone is “going to be a bitch.”

So it's not like the narrator is calling someone a bitch just because she's breaking up with him, he's saying she has embarked on a calculated campaign of emotional warfare in order to control a situation she doesn't have the assertiveness to deal with directly. I understand that some people hate the word and hopefully I've explained my rationale for using it here.

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from Songs From The Second Floor, released August 18, 2009

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Known the world over for his viral "Pachelbel Rant" video, Rob Paravonian is a musician and comedian who has performed on Comedy Central, opened for comedy legends George Carlin and Lily Tomlin, and was once called a "deranged bastard child of Tom Lehrer and Joan Baez." ... more

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