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Have always like this song. The first time I heard it (so young I can't remember when), I was enchanted by this 1982 one-hit wonder. The lyrics, too, is mindbogglingly profound but yet so painfully simple; so much so that every so now and then, I would think back of this song to remind myself of what's truly important.

(parts of lyrics)

(quote)

'I've no doubt you dream about, the things you'd never do.

But I wish someone, had a talk to me, like I, wanna talk to you."

"Oh, I've been to Georgia, and California, and anywhere I could run."

"But I ran out of places and friendly faces because I had to be free."

"Please lady, please lady, don't just walk away.

'cause I have this need to tell you, why I'm all alone today.

I can see so much of me, still living in your eyes." 

"Oh, I've been to Nice, and the Isles of Greece,

while I sipped champagne on a yacht.

I moved like Harlow, in Monte Carlo,

and showed them what I've got."

"But I, took the sweet life and never knew that, I'd be bitter from the sweet."

"I'VE BEEN TO PARADISE, BUT I'VE, NEVER BEEN TO ME."

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Sad song of wistful and much-too-late regrets. And I think it's an awesomely beautiful song which holds such amazing truths.

Not letting go of what is important. Knowing what is important. Prioritizing.

No one lays on their deathbeds wishing that they had played more. Partied more. Earned more money. Traveled more. Or studied more.