Released as a single from Simon's 1974 album Hotcakes, "Haven't Got Time for the Pain" peaked at #14 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #2 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart, and has remained a beloved soft rock anthem in the years since.
While Simon and Taylor would famously end up getting divorced, the lyrics of "Haven't Got Time for the Pain" suggest their relationship was in a very good place when Simon wrote the tune:
You showed me how, how to leave myself behindHow to turn down the noise in my mindNow I haven't got time for the painI haven't got room for the pain
Carly Simon opened up about her marriage to James Taylor in a memoir
In a 2015 interview with People about her then-new memoir, Boys in the Trees, Simon said she still loved Taylor "so much," even though the two hadn't spoken in years.
"My incredible loyalty to him, in spite of the fact that he has treated me without any regard, has been so painful to me for so long," Simon continued. "But, through the course of writing the book, I really started to understand that I could love and not be loved. And that was the big realization for me, that it doesn't have to be a two-way street."
"I saw his picture on the cover of TIME magazine when I was walking home with my sister and I said, 'I'm gonna marry that man.' And that really happened," she said. "And I thought, 'How did I know?' Probably every other girl in the world was hoping for the same thing. Why did it happen to me? Was it predestined? Why did it happen that I'm still living in this house which was his?"
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