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Who knows if the fire and rain adequately prepared him for this one. Carly Simon, whose recent Parkinson\u2019s diagnosis didn\u2019t impede her from releasing her first album in 18 years<\/a>, Comes in Waves, has seemingly dedicated a song to her ex-husband, James Taylor. It\u2019s \u2026 not positive. \u201cMaybe I Never Loved You,\u201d a short, confessional track that clocks in at under three minutes, gets straight to the point: \u201cMaybe I never loved you, but anyway, I thought I did \/ I married you, we had a kid \/ That counts for something \/ Maybe I never loved you \/ Yes, and maybe I did \/ And maybe you never loved me \/ Although God knows, you said you did \/ And maybe it\u2019s best to bury whatever it was we had our fill of.\u201d The couple, who were married from 1972 to 1983, share two children. Simon revealed<\/a> in her 2015 memoir that they hadn\u2019t talked in decades despite her best efforts, and she expressed hope at the time \u201cto heal\u201d Taylor. People notes<\/a> that another song from Comes in Waves, \u201cMother of Pearl,\u201d addresses the impact of their separation on their daughter. (\u201cI can see you at seven, a child of divorce \/ How can it be that we gave you no choice?\u201d) Still, given that Simon has the nuclear codes for every possible diss track<\/a>, it could be a lot worse?<\/p>\n Related<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Who knows if the fire and rain adequately prepared him for this one. Carly Simon, whose recent Parkinson\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":574344,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[136041,430,156,283060,122060,157,111,139,69,283061],"class_list":["post-574343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-carly-simon","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-famous-exes","tag-james-taylor","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-youre-so"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=574343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/574344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}