I'm no good at goodbyes

Author’s Note: For Language Arts class we are doing a point of view piece. I decide to do the song “50 Way to Say Goodbye” by Train. And I choose to write about what I thought the song was about. Down below is the lyrics to the song and below that is my response to the song. 

"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 say

She went down in an airplane
Fried getting sun tanned
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 likes 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 the hot tub
Danced to death at an East Side nightclub 
Help me, help me, I'm all out of lies
And ways to say you died

I want to live a thousand lives with you
I want to 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 sun tanned
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 the hot tub
Danced to death at an East Side nightclub 
Help me, help me, I'm all out of lies
And ways to say you died"

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"50 Ways to Say Goodbye" by the band Train is about a guy and a girl that broke up and he doesn't want to tell his friends about it because he is to embarrass. He also doesn't want to say that she broke up with him. So he comes up with lies on how she died to cover it up.  

"My pride still feels the sting

You were my everything

Someday I'll find a love likes yours

She'll think I'm Superman

Not Super Minivan

How could you leave on Yom Kippur?" 

The first verse of the song kind of tells me that if he finds a girl and they have the same love, then she’ll think he is a superhero instead of a minivan. So she is comparing him to a soccer mom. The last line in this verse says that she left on a Jewish holiday, which is a holy day on the tenth day of Tishri.

"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"

These verses tell me that his heart can’t beat since he misses her too much. And his head is over sized because he has all of these thoughts about her. So he will take the easier way out of it, and try to forget about it. And that she said that it was meant to be, but it wasn't my fault, it was yours. So now you left. 

"I want to live a thousand lives with you

I want to be the one you're dying to love

But you don't want to"

There are many impossible as to what all of these verses mean to each person, but this one tells me that he wants to live the rest of his life with her. But he wants her to be in love with him, yet she’s not.         

While the remaining verses just say all of these reasons of how she died and that he needs help because he is no good at saying goodbye, since he’s wishing that they were still together. In addition he needs more help because he can't come up with anymore lies.  

Where am I?

Author’s note: For language arts class we wrote an essay for the theme of a novel. In the book “Between Shades of Gray” the theme stuck out to me the most is bravery.  

Imagine being stuck in a pitch black train with nothing and no one you know, not knowing where you’re going or where you are. Each day you and everyone else struggle to get food and water. In the novel “Between Shades of Gray”, by Ruta Sepetys, the main character Lina Vilkas faces many challenges and has to have bravery for her and her family.  

To begin with the NKVD took a cluster of people from all over the US, and took everyone that was alive to Lithuanian. From the day they got there they started working, from fall to spring and didn’t have a lot of warm clothing throughout the winter. So Lina, her mom, and her brother Jonas along with everyone else had to deal with little food, water, shelter, and warmth as the arctic weeks turned into months. Therefore with everything they all had to go through with they must of had a lot of bravery.    

In addition Andrius and his mother have to do many things for and with the NKVD to help everyone else even if they don’t like it. Unlike everybody else these two get to stay and sleep in the building in which the NKVD people stay. Although since Andrius stayed with those people he would sneak the leftover food over to Lina, in which she would share with the rest of the people. Mrs. Arvydas and her son Andrius have bravery because of everything that they have done to help protect everyone else.        

While reading this book it reminded me of the book “Deadly Little Games”. In this book the main character Camelia got locked in a tiny room in the middle of the woods. This room was mysteriously black and had no windows, she didn’t know what was going on. So Camelia had to of had major bravery, since she was entirely unaware for where she was and what was going on.        

Throughout the book the main character had to have plenty of bravery with everything going on. In “Between Shades of Gray” Lina has to have bravery for herself along for her family. If something like this would happened to me I probably wouldn’t of been so brave.