Content
The song is best known as lyrically formatted for a female vocalist and as such is addressed to a desperate wife and mother who would likely trade her prosaic existence for the jet setting lifestyle the song's narrator has led. The narrator alludes to various hedonistic episodes in her life, concluding that while she's "been to paradise", she's ultimately failed to find self-fulfillment expressing this with the line: "I've never been to me". There is also an alternate set of lyrics for the song formatted for a male singer, in which the narrator is an elderly man begging for a dime for a cup of coffee, addressing a younger man who is "raising hell" the way the old man used to do.
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