Carly Simon seemingly takes aim at ex James Taylor on new album as she sings 'Maybe I never loved you'

Carly Simon appears to take aim at her ex-husband James Taylor with a five-word bombshell: "Maybe I never loved you."

The Grammy-winning singer seems to turn the wreckage of their decade-long marriage into a song on her new album, "Comes in Waves."

"Maybe I never loved you / But anyway, I thought I did," Simon sings on the albums second track. "I married you, we had a kid / That counts for something."

She immediately undercuts her own certainty, wondering whether she did love her former husband — and whether he ever truly loved her.

"Maybe I never loved you / Yes, and maybe I did," she sings. "And maybe you never loved me / Although God knows, you said you did."

Taylor is never identified by name.

Simon was married to the "Fire and Rain" singer from 1972 to 1983. Their relationship was rocky and remained in the public eye for decades.

"You came for me those times I hid / Im so glad you did that," she sings. "And maybe its wrong to wonder how everything kind became forbidden."

The song eventually concludes with what sounds like a final attempt at closure.

"And maybe its best to bury whatever it was we had our fill of," she sings. "Maybe I never loved you / Maybe I always will."

Fox News Digital has reached out to both Simon and Taylor for comment.

In a 2015 interview with People, Simon said she and Taylor had not spoken in more than a decade.

"I still want to heal him, I still want to make him all right," she said. "And I love him so much."

Simon said Taylor's treatment of her had been deeply painful, but writing her memoir helped her understand something about herself and about unrequited love.

"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," she told the outlet. "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 doesnt have to be a two-way street."

The deeply personal album arrives as Simon has also been navigating significant health challenges away from the spotlight.

The "Youre So Vain" singer has Parkinsons disease and recently had surgery for basal cell carcinoma, a form of skin cancer.

Simon explained to People why she had largely stayed out of the public eye.

"It has taken me some time to understand the diagnosis, to adjust to it, and to decide how much I wanted to say about it publicly," the 83-year-old told the outlet in a statement published July 27.

"Parkinson's is different for everyone, and it can be unpredictable," she continued. "Some days I'm so tired I can't get the day moving at all. On others, it gives me a little more room to move, think, work and feel like myself."

Her comments offer a rare glimpse into what the legendary singer has been experiencing privately while continuing to create music.

Her latest project, "Comes in Waves," marks the end of an 18-year hiatus from releasing original music — and she's looking squarely at the past while confronting the realities of the present.

Simon and Taylor were one of of the 1970s.

Their romance moved fast. Simon said she went to Taylor's dressing room at New York's Carnegie Hall in 1971 after seeing him perform.

"I have a wonderful history with Carnegie Hall," she said previously in a

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