50 Ways to Say Goodbye

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

Train frontman Pat Monahan penned this song with Espionage, the Norwegian production duo that helped pen "Hey Soul Sister." Espionage is made up of Espen Lind and Amund Bjørklund and amongst their other credits are Beyoncé's "Irreplaceable" and Chris Brown's "With You."

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. Met a shark under water 5. Fell and no one caught her 6. Caught in a mudslide 7. Eaten by a lion 8. 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