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** There is ''one'' guy, in the entire world, who knows for certain who the song is actually about -- TV executive Dick Ebersol. He won the answer in an auction in 2003, and Simon made him sign a non-disclosure agreement. It lasts at least until Simon dies.
** There is ''one'' guy, in the entire world, who knows for certain who the song is actually about -- TV executive Dick Ebersol. He won the answer in an auction in 2003, and Simon made him sign a non-disclosure agreement. It lasts at least until Simon dies.
** Technically speaking unless the above theory is correct, there are two guys in the world who know for certain; the one it's about is the other one.
** Technically speaking unless the above theory is correct, there are two guys in the world who know for certain; the one it's about is the other one.
** Hints and clues that Simon has given out or allowed to be given out since 1972 suggest that the song is actually about ''three different men'' -- one for each verse. Two of the best candidates -- supported by [[Backmasking|back-masked]] speech in a particular version of the song -- are actor [[Warren Beatty]] (confirmed by Simon in 2015 to be the subject of the second verse) and record executive David Geffen.
** Hints and clues that Simon has given out or allowed to be given out since 1972 suggest that the song is actually about ''three different men'' -- one for each verse. Two of the best candidates -- supported by [[Backmasking|back-masked]] speech in a particular version of the song -- are actor [[Warren Beatty]] (confirmed by Simon in 2015 to be the subject of the second verse) and record executive David Geffen (who she had not yet met when she wrote the song).
* The singer Seal intentionally does not put out official lyrics to his songs, feeling that if someone realized the lyrics were something other than what they thought it was, it would rob them of what they feel the song's meaning is to them.
* The singer Seal intentionally does not put out official lyrics to his songs, feeling that if someone realized the lyrics were something other than what they thought it was, it would rob them of what they feel the song's meaning is to them.
* Adriyel's "Natasha/Natalie" features lyrics such as "You're a person, and a concept / You're both and neither I suppose", insisting that "this audience will never know / what you mean and what you show" and referring to the narrator's fun times with the girl in question, despite the fact that the girl in question has never met him, doesn't know who he is, and apparently doesn't even speak English because she's from the Ukraine. The only definitely solved mystery is of the two names: in Russia and the Ukraine, the names Natasha and Natalie are interchangeable.
* Adriyel's "Natasha/Natalie" features lyrics such as "You're a person, and a concept / You're both and neither I suppose", insisting that "this audience will never know / what you mean and what you show" and referring to the narrator's fun times with the girl in question, despite the fact that the girl in question has never met him, doesn't know who he is, and apparently doesn't even speak English because she's from the Ukraine. The only definitely solved mystery is of the two names: in Russia and the Ukraine, the names Natasha and Natalie are interchangeable.
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