Paul Simon, 50 Ways To Leave Your Lover (live), Symphony Hall, San Francisco, July 21, 2025 (4K)

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Paul Simon performs his song "50 Ways To Leave Your Lover" live in concert before a sold-out crowd at Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco, California on July 21, 2025. 50 Ways To Leave Your Lover originally appeared on Simon's fourth studio album, Still Crazy After All These Years (1975). This was one of the final nights of the A Quiet Celebration Tour. Joining Simon onstage were Mark Stewart (guitar), Gyan Riley (guitar), Caleb Burhans (viola), Mick Rossi (piano, keys), Andy Snitzer (saxophone), Nancy Stagnita (flute), Eugene Friesen (Cello), Jamey Haddad (percussion), and Steve Gadd (drums).

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50 Ways To Leave Your Lover lyrics:

“The problem is all inside your head”
She said to me
“The answer is easy if you
Take it logically
I’d like to help you in your struggle
To be free
There must be fifty ways
To leave your lover”

She said, “It’s really not my habit to intrude
Furthermore, I hope my meaning
Won’t be lost or misconstrued
But I’ll repeat myself
At the risk of being crude
There must be fifty ways
To leave your lover
Fifty ways to leave your lover”

You just slip out the back, Jack
Make a new plan, Stan
You don’t need to be coy, Roy
Just get yourself free
Hop on the bus, Gus
You don’t need to discuss much
Just drop off the key, Lee
And get yourself free

Ooh, slip out the back, Jack
Make a new plan, Stan
You don’t need to be coy, Roy
Just listen to me
Hop on the bus, Gus
You don’t need to discuss much
Just drop off the key, Lee
And get yourself free

She said, “It grieves me so
To see you in such pain
I wish there was something I could do
To make you smile again”
I said, “I appreciate that
And would you please explain
About the fifty ways?”

She said, “Why don’t we both
Just sleep on it tonight
And I believe in the morning
You’ll begin to see the light”
And then she kissed me
And I realized she probably was right
There must be fifty ways
To leave your lover
Fifty ways to leave your lover

You just slip out the back, Jack
Make a new plan, Stan
You don’t need to be coy, Roy
Just get yourself free
Hop on the bus, Gus
You don’t need to discuss much
Just drop off the key, Lee
And get yourself free

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Paul Simon official bio:

During his distinguished career spanning seven decades, Paul Simon has produced an unparalleled body of work including timeless masterpieces, such as Bridge Over Troubled Water, Sounds of Silence, and Graceland. Venerated as one of the greatest songwriters of all time and “popular music’s premier poet of the human condition,” Simon has received 16 Grammy Awards and has been twice inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. He is a member of the Songwriters Hall of Fame, a recipient of the Kennedy Center Honors, and was presented the Library of Congress’ inaugural Gershwin Prize for Popular Song, which recognizes the profound and positive effect of popular music on the world’s culture.

Simon was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2011, and in 2012 named laureate of the prestigious Polar Music Prize along with Yo-Yo Ma. In 2019, Paul Simon was the first musician to be presented the Great Americans Medal by the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. His song “Mrs. Robinson” was named in the top ten of the AFI’s 100 Years, 100 Songs.

In 2023, Simon released his ambitious and widely acclaimed 33-minute, seven-movement masterwork, Seven Psalms, which earned him his 36th Grammy nomination and topped critics’ Album of the Year lists – lauded as “A masterpiece” by MOJO’s David Fricke, and “Profound” by The Times of London.

It was during the recording of Seven Psalms that Simon began to steadily lose the hearing in his left ear which initially made extended live performances impossible. Together with the Stanford Initiative to Cure Hearing Loss, and his own production team, Simon redesigned his entire stage set up to make performing viable.

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A Quiet Celebration live tour dates:

April 4-5 – New Orleans, LA @ Saenger Theatre
April 8, 10, 11 – Austin, TX @ Bass Concert Hall
April 14, 16, 17 – Denver, CO @ Paramount Theatre
April 20, 22, 23 – Minneapolis, MN @ Orpheum Theatre
April 26 – Kansas City, MO @ Midland Theatre
April 28-29 – St. Louis, MO @ Stifel Theatre
May 7-8 – Dallas, TX @ AT&T Winspear Opera House
May 11, 13, 14 – Nashville, TN @ The Ryman
May 17-18 – Milwaukee, WI @ Riverside Theatre
May 21, 23, 24 – Chicago, IL @ Symphony Center
May 27, 29, 30 – Toronto, ON @ Massey Hall
June 4, 6, 7 – Vienna, VA @ Wolf Trap
June 10, 12, 13 – Boston, MA @ Boch Center-Wang Theatre
June 16, 18, 20, 21, 23 – New York, NY @ Beacon Theatre
June 26, 28, 29 – Philadelphia, PA @ Academy of Music
July 7 – Long Beach, CA @ Terrace Theater
July 9, 11, 12, 14, 16 – Los Angeles, CA @ Disney Hall
July 19, 21, 22 – San Francisco, CA @ Davies Symphony Hall
July 25, 26, 28 – Vancouver, BC @ The Orpheum
July 31, August 2, 3 – Seattle, WA @ Benaroya Hall
August 5, 6 – Seattle, WA @ McCaw Hall

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