[00:01.25](Ken Kirsch / Ronald Miller)
[00:04.69]Hey lady, you, lady, cursing at your life
[00:12.24]You're a discontented mother and a regimented wife
[00:20.40]I've no doubt you dream about the things you'll never do
[00:27.60]But I wish someone had talked to me like I wanna talk to you
[00:36.11]I've been to Georgia and California, anywhere I could run
[00:44.14]Took the hand of a preachman and we made love in the sun
[00:50.32]But I ran out of places and friendly faces
[00:55.36]Because I had to be free
[00:59.27]I've been to paradise, but I've never been to me
[01:09.75]Please lady, please, lady, don't just walk away
[01:16.69]Cause I have this need to tell you why I'm all alone today
[01:25.65]I can see so much of me still living in your eyes
[01:32.40]Won't you share a part of a weary heart
[01:36.48]that has lived a million lies
[01:40.39]I've been to Nice and the isle of Greece
[01:44.49]While I sipped champagne on a yacht
[01:48.53]I moved like Harlow in Monte Carlo and showed 'em what I've got
[01:55.63]I've been undressed by kings
[01:58.68]And I've seen some things that a woman ain't supposed to see
[02:04.30]I've been to paradise
[02:07.38]But I've never been to me
[02:11.40](spoken)
[02:12.47]Hey, you know what paradise is? It's a lie
[02:16.68]A fantasy we create about people and places as we'd like them to be
[02:22.42]But you know what truth is?
[02:23.91]It's that little baby you're holding,
[02:25.43]And it's that man you fought with this morning,
[02:28.39]the same one you're going to make love with tonight
[02:31.16]That's truth, that's love
[02:33.43]Sometimes I've been to crying for unborn children
[02:38.31]that might have made me.plete
[02:42.19]But I, I took the sweet life
[02:44.51]And never knew I'd be bitter from the sweet
[02:48.32]I spent my life exploring the subtle whoring
[02:53.52]that cost too much to be free
[02:56.29]Hey lady, I've been to paradise
[03:05.47]But I've never been to me
[03:17.97]I've been to paradise
[03:22.33]But I've never been to me
[03:30.28]I've been to paradise
[03:34.48]But I've never been to me
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