I was 12 when this came out and remember it climbing the US charts. I always liked this song. I am not so much a lyric man, but melody, production and instrumentation has always been so important to me as a musician myself. Yes, the lyrics are a bit much, but when I was 12, all I cared about how much I liked the song otherwise! Did make it to number 3 here in the US. As a chart geek and follower, I was always hoping it would make it to # 1! Oh well, to be 12 again, when music had melody.
What this song is saying :I've lived the good life but all I really wanted was to be sattled with kids,watching daytime tv and being a slave to a 9-5 husband.The whole tone of it ALL makes me want to stick forks in my eyeballs
Good God..wait, I shouldn't blame the Almighty for this drek..so..Crap, this is absolute bullshit. Basically the song is saying, "I pretty much lived a life banging guys in high places, and now I wish I hadn't. I wish I had married Joe the plumber and squeezed out his spawn. Because those are the only two options a woman has. Whore, or mother. Yeah...because no woman in the history of time has ever say...had a career, or ambition, or anything like that. What a load of bullshit.
@hollycbaby Hey bro sis, I think this song is written more for the "discontented mother" in the opening. It's speaking to the woman who did decide to chain herself down to a family life and maybe laments doing so at certain times. And the singer is just talking about a life full of recklessness and freedom, I don't think there's a heavy emphasis on whoredom just unrestricted sex.
Indeed, avdreader1. The "subtle whoring" line is one of the worst ever penned in a hit song. It's right up there with the chair not being able to hear Neil Diamond in "I Am, I Said" and the one in "Seasons in the Sun" where the dying guy bemoans the fact that the stars he and his girl could reach were only starfish on the beach!
This is the way to compose and write music and whomever is posting negative shit can go suck it choke and die. Go find your type of music if you call it music....J.B? cock sucker? what other shit sounds there is.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
you don't have to be a high class international whore or indeed a discontented mother to have never been to me! I am neither and have seen a lot of the world but still have never been there!! X
LOVE this song!! THANK YOU!! THANK YOU!! THANK YOU MrRenaissance!! OH!! And I just noticed, your upload date (November 11, 2006) was EXACTLY 5 YEARS ago today!! What a coincidence!! TODAY is 11/11/11!! You have a good one!!
Coul'd never get this dumb song out of my head. I just imagine some weird bag lady grabbing me and ranting this nonsense at me. You could drown in the schmalz. I've seen some things a woman 'aint s'posed to see, didn't turn my brain into mush. Truly awful.
this is the one song i could listen to for a life time and never get fed up of, its beautiful. reminds me of memories when there was no worries and my beautiful mother was dancing with me in the kitchen.
Estimated friend, if you want to listen again this song and an endless number of successes of the love I suggest you to visit Radio MUSICA PARA MIMOS - looks for his direction URL in Google ( search Musica para Mimos in Google)-. best romantic music of all the times in Internet, is great, is very good ...!!!
dpat sa mga babaeng walng kasiyahn ng totoo eh ipinapako sa krus,,,,nang patiwarik,,,,sayng ang kinabukasan ng mga bata na sinasayng lng ng mga ganyang walng kuwentangina,,,,
THIS SONG TO ME HAS ALWAYS MEANT THAT WHERE EVER I GO, I TAKE ME WITH ME AND I NEVER TAKE TIME TO REALLY GET TO KNOW THIS PERSON THAT IS IN ME. AND WHEN I FINALLY TOOK TIME AND WAS PATIENT WITH HER , I TRULLY LOVED HER AFTER ALOT OF FORGIVNESS AND I REALIZED THAT SHE WAS THE PERSON I HAD ALWAYS RAN FROM AND TRIED TO HIDE FROM. NOW WE ARE "ONE" AND I FEEL HAPPINESS.
THIS SONG TO ME HAS ALWAYS MEANT THAT WHERE EVER I GO, I TAKE ME WITH ME AND I NEVER TAKE TIME TO REALLY GET TO KNOW THIS PERSON THAT IS IN ME. AND WHEN I FINALLY TOOK TIME AND WAS PATIENT WITH HER , I TRULLY LOVED HER AFTER ALOT OF FORGIVNESS AND I REALIZED THAT SHE WAS THE PERSON I HAD ALWAYS RAN FROM AND TRIED TO HIDE FROM. NOW WE ARE "ONE" AND I FEEL HAPPINESS.
It's about not knowing the real person inside, as we all tend to be someone we are not just to please other people we live in a fantasty world most of the time when the real paradise is within ourselves all we have to do is look for it once u find it ...... IT REALLY is BEAUTIFUL
If you want to know the details behind this song, and what Charlene thinks about it, she now has an official site, CharleneSongs (d-t c-m - can't post URLs here). She has new songs on the site and her books too.
Is it about a high price postitute? Maybe...But, this son was written in the 70's and perhaps only those women from the 70's can relate to it. Women were screaming for equality in high-paying positions, choosing careers over marriages, yes, there was a lot of promiscuity because it came with the territory of not wanting to be 'tied down like mommy was' attitude. It is a song that I bet many women who are now in their 60's can relate to and possibly apply to their own experience.
I totally relate to this song because I've also done my share of subtle whoring, making love to random people on yachts, and being undressed by kings. I mean, who hasn't, right? This song's message really speaks to the every man. And as a man, who has been to both Georgia and California, and made love to a preacher man in the sun, I can echo wholeheartedly Charlene's regretful message.
All the song means is that she made life choices to be free and travel the world seeking happiness because she thought she needed that to be happy, and then realized when looking at her married friends with children that maybe she made some wrong choices for herself because she never found happiness..."there is no way to happiness, happiness IS the way." Just talk to anyone who has been a celebrity and they will tell you - they are seeking something that when they get there, doesn't exist.
what a gay song and so true for my life i have been all over the world on my looks but never been to meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
SHUT UP! i totally know Charlene! omigosh i knew she wrote songs but i didnt know she was like FAMOUS! hha people shes an awesome person in real life my famz rly good friends with her and she loves her fans, you guys should read her auto-biography or however you say that (:
i was a kid when i first heard this song. didn't know it's lyrics was about the trials and tribulations of women in hardship. brings me back to my youth
I've been to ME. It's about 45 minutes southwest of Bakersfield California...
Charlene, you haven't missed much. It's cold in the winter, hot in the summer. Everything is overpriced, the place is overrun by gang members and there's no place to eat.
I know this mean, I've been to top of my world at 40 or some years old, but I feel I never been to myself yet... I've got some happiness in exchange for gave some good times up, break some vows up...
I think that Charlene is trying to express many feelings that she has about her life. She seems to have regrets about her life and wishes that her life had turned out differently for her. She has wished for a fantasy life of having wonderful things. It sounds like she regrets that her relationship didn't work out and she never had the baby that she always wanted. I really believe she is singing about her disappointment that she never found the happiness that she always wanted for herself.
THIS IS HORRIBLE! 1970's pretentious schlock at its worst!!! I had almost forgotten about it until Rebecca Black's "Friday" got people talking about what is the "worst song ever" and this one was a popular choice for that title. And, yeah, I looked it up on youtube just to hate on it!
@mkeogh76 ...It's right up there, I agree. The arrangement reminds me of a mattell child's toy commercial, nursery room aero toy soundtrack or something equally as bathetic. Her singing is so faint it makes Olivia Newton John sound soulful. But as bad as all of this is, the worst part by far is that mid-break bit where she talks about fucking her husband with whom she fought with earlier in the day. I burst out laughing every time, it never fails.
extraordinary to think charlene went on to become a ruthless somalian pirate..who would have thought it. she sang this song for the other pirates on boring days - 'Ive robbed in zambia and northern gambia. I stole every boat in the sea. ive robbed in paradise but ive never been to greece'.
My dad used to play this song a lot and I thought it was kind of weird, but now I really like it and I'm barely 18. I think it's lovely. Her voice is so sweet. :]
these are the songs that makes you think and at the same time touches your soul..
and the message is truly truthful and clear: "Whats more precious for a woman? than to have a husband and children who love her and care for her? "
I doubt you can see this in most American Families today, since Divorce, Adultery and all kinds of corruption have sneaked into American Families and its to the point that there is no going back...Marriage is a JOKE nowadays...
these are the songs that makes you think and at the same time touches your soul..
and the message is truly truthful and clear: "Whats more precious for a woman? than to have a husband and children who love her and care for her? "
I doubt you can see this in most American Families today, since Divorce, Adultery and all kinds of corruption have sneaked into American Families and its to the point that there is no going back...Marriage is a JOKE nowadays...
I hate this song with all my being. It's probably the only song that actually makes me feel nauseous. I've always detested violence against women, but listening to this shit just makes me want to punch this bitch.
@reichman73 So, clearly, everything you are "against" is actually lurking beneath your pathetic surface. If you stopped for a second and LISTENED...she's sending a message of those behind her that are going to do the same shit...and probably with a pathetic fucker like you. You missed the whole point of the song you miserable cromangon dipstick.
Any theories as to what she saw that "a woman ain't 'sposed to see"? I was thinking it was guys braiding their armpit hair...but it could be something else.
It's no wonder this song hit the top of the charts around the world but bombed here in the USA(it only reached #3 here on the charts). I prefer Mary McGregor's version!
i love this song. i love what its about. how realising that, instead of living off golden ideals of paradise and freedom, all she wanted was the humbling reality of family and truth. how love is at its best when its shared between people. how sometimes, your fantasies of an impossibly unattached and free life, should stay fantasies. ill say it again; i love this song.
@grizzlychris1 I always figured that ACTUAL housewives, hearing this song, would turn on Charlene and say "listen...at least you HAD the Greek Isles and actually WERE undressed by kings. For me, it's just been that cruddy public beach once a month and Ed Bob falling asleep as soon as he's finished. And if you really feel THAT bad about having all that fun, Charlene, you could change the twins and mop the freakin' floor for me while your here, BITCH!"
I think she's saying all the rich things she did doesn't equal to being in a family. obviously an abusive relationship isn't any better but if you have a loving family with kids(whether father is there or not) better than whoring out your body and not having any thing. beauty only last so long. and you feel like shit for selling out.
@sutherknight Get over yourself. It's a comment about a silly pop song from thirty years ago. Charlene herself is probably SICK of the damn thing by now.
You clearly have no clue to what this song means!! I have been a "housewife" and a professional women at the same time. Sorry that ur good time is at a cruddy beach...that is real life ...we don't get to go Greek Isles!! Listen to song and the meaning.."Hey you know what paradise is, it's a lie a fantasy we create about people and places as we'd like them to be..but you know what truth is ..it's that little baby your holding and that man you fought with this morning be grateful for what u have
@ChaosGirl888 Obviously, most people never get to go to Greek Isles...or get undressed by any member of a royal family...and that, basically is my point(btw, the scenario in my post was a joke, and not MY experience).
Charlene is singing this from a vantage point of a privileged person envying a non-privileged person her LACK of privilege. She ends up sounding like an aristocrat saying to a pauper "oh, I SO envy how simple your little life is". Actual working moms would tell her to shove it.
And yes, people shouldn't want what they're never going to have, perhaps, but at the same time people who have what most people will never have shouldn't talk to those who have nothing the way this song does.
@KennBurch That's hilarious, grizzly. very funny. Just did this song at Karaoke in Local pub, near Manchester, and I didn't get stabbed. I'm pretty sure I'm not gay but this is one song I would love to cover but my band wont let me.
I suppose in a way it could be a nice wedding song, as one who has finally realized that she needed to be herself for once? maybe from then on she could say that she had been to herself?
my mum is no longer with us, but she is when we listen to this song.... so many memories of drunken nights finding out who we both were!! Love you and miss you mum xxx
my mum is no longer with us, but she is when we listen to this song.... so many memories of drunken nights finding out who we both were!! Love you and miss you mum xxx
This is my BF's song. He loves this song to bits and he said this is his song when he was younger and this song made him stronger and be a better man. He used to cry to this song everytime he heard this song
If he is down and upset he just turn this song on and just cry.
Best worst song EVER.
oneleggeddonkey 8 hours ago
love this tune
123mrwilletts 3 days ago
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I was 12 when this came out and remember it climbing the US charts. I always liked this song. I am not so much a lyric man, but melody, production and instrumentation has always been so important to me as a musician myself. Yes, the lyrics are a bit much, but when I was 12, all I cared about how much I liked the song otherwise! Did make it to number 3 here in the US. As a chart geek and follower, I was always hoping it would make it to # 1! Oh well, to be 12 again, when music had melody.
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amaririi 1 week ago
i love the song.,.
lovelyamor57399 2 weeks ago
What an over the top song.
wildflower434 2 weeks ago
I've never been to Maine either.
matleyz 3 weeks ago 2
@matleyz Seen enough of this war?
DaBlazesUSay 2 weeks ago
What this song is saying :I've lived the good life but all I really wanted was to be sattled with kids,watching daytime tv and being a slave to a 9-5 husband.The whole tone of it ALL makes me want to stick forks in my eyeballs
12CeeSee 3 weeks ago
Good God..wait, I shouldn't blame the Almighty for this drek..so..Crap, this is absolute bullshit. Basically the song is saying, "I pretty much lived a life banging guys in high places, and now I wish I hadn't. I wish I had married Joe the plumber and squeezed out his spawn. Because those are the only two options a woman has. Whore, or mother. Yeah...because no woman in the history of time has ever say...had a career, or ambition, or anything like that. What a load of bullshit.
hollycbaby 3 weeks ago
@hollycbaby Hey bro sis, I think this song is written more for the "discontented mother" in the opening. It's speaking to the woman who did decide to chain herself down to a family life and maybe laments doing so at certain times. And the singer is just talking about a life full of recklessness and freedom, I don't think there's a heavy emphasis on whoredom just unrestricted sex.
CrStrifey 3 weeks ago
i love this song!
lcl122 3 weeks ago
HM.LOVE IT SO MUCH XOXOXOXOXOXOXO.
gmgr1988 3 weeks ago
hey gay
michellealea1 1 month ago
affected peeps keeps following here...sad
michellealea1 1 month ago
Indeed, avdreader1. The "subtle whoring" line is one of the worst ever penned in a hit song. It's right up there with the chair not being able to hear Neil Diamond in "I Am, I Said" and the one in "Seasons in the Sun" where the dying guy bemoans the fact that the stars he and his girl could reach were only starfish on the beach!
danning1 1 month ago
from the lyrics, A LOT of people, including a preacher and a king have been to charlene...I'm pretty sure charlene has been to charlene...
noyzizi 1 month ago 3
唱歌代替了持咒的体会~
ipoh1911 1 month ago
Subtle whoring???
avdreader1 1 month ago
Hey Lady! Shoot the woman singing this...PLEASE! It's even worse than I remember. Hearing it on the way to school wishing the bus would blow up.
avdreader1 1 month ago
Ha love this song played it every day while out in Afganistan.
TomBean21 1 month ago in playlist Favorite videos
Oh i'm crying bcoz this song
MegaChanapai 1 month ago
Thank You Dear Art Hueng~~ <3
JESSWANG86 1 month ago
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This is the way to compose and write music and whomever is posting negative shit can go suck it choke and die. Go find your type of music if you call it music....J.B? cock sucker? what other shit sounds there is.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
MrMetoyou94 1 month ago
you don't have to be a high class international whore or indeed a discontented mother to have never been to me! I am neither and have seen a lot of the world but still have never been there!! X
Mumsieish 2 months ago
I love this song, makes me cry...I didnt even know the title...but now I finally found you
orignaobet 2 months ago
LOVE this song!! THANK YOU!! THANK YOU!! THANK YOU MrRenaissance!! OH!! And I just noticed, your upload date (November 11, 2006) was EXACTLY 5 YEARS ago today!! What a coincidence!! TODAY is 11/11/11!! You have a good one!!
Vidiot760 2 months ago
Takes me back to 1982 when i girl i copped off with was trying to learn the lyrics, she kept playing it until she knew the words, good days!
Loverboy19691 2 months ago
Hahaha I woke up with this song in my head hahahahaa...I have no idea why. Ive only heard it once or twice.
noellejoi 2 months ago
Made love in the sand to a preacher man,
Though he didn't make me come.
randyatlantis 3 months ago 3
I've been to Paradise, but I've never been to Leeds
randyatlantis 3 months ago
someone bring me to monte carlo!!!to some kind of bilat live in monte carlo,, thts very nice@@@
donspeak329 3 months ago
I moved like Harlow in Monte Carlo
And showed 'em my bilat....
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great!!!!!!!!!!!!!
razazo12 3 months ago
Coul'd never get this dumb song out of my head. I just imagine some weird bag lady grabbing me and ranting this nonsense at me. You could drown in the schmalz. I've seen some things a woman 'aint s'posed to see, didn't turn my brain into mush. Truly awful.
00ProblemChild 3 months ago
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I've been to paradise but it never been to me ;'(
iAmRuperth 3 months ago
I've been to paradise but it never been to me ;'(
iAmRuperth 3 months ago
this is the one song i could listen to for a life time and never get fed up of, its beautiful. reminds me of memories when there was no worries and my beautiful mother was dancing with me in the kitchen.
carter77710 3 months ago 2
Hey, you know what paradise is?
It's a lie
A fantasy we created about people and places
As we like them to be
But you know what truth is?
It's that little baby you're holding
And it's that man you fought with this morning
The same one you are gonna make love to tonight
That's truth
That's love <3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3
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mgclv 4 months ago
beautiful song thnx poster
smithywick 4 months ago
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Estimated friend, if you want to listen again this song and an endless number of successes of the love I suggest you to visit Radio MUSICA PARA MIMOS - looks for his direction URL in Google ( search Musica para Mimos in Google)-. best romantic music of all the times in Internet, is great, is very good ...!!!
robertoamor2011 4 months ago
Randy Crawford does this song so much better this one sucks
devore504 4 months ago
This lady sure does get around.
Robster543210 4 months ago
Great now I want to do what she did and I'm a guy.
freddesite 4 months ago 3
i love this song,,facts lyrics
liebchen26 4 months ago
bro dis bitch full shreds
Turbonutics 4 months ago
dpat sa mga babaeng walng kasiyahn ng totoo eh ipinapako sa krus,,,,nang patiwarik,,,,sayng ang kinabukasan ng mga bata na sinasayng lng ng mga ganyang walng kuwentangina,,,,
mybestjhenny 4 months ago
i" been to paradise but never been to me
frozenblock2 4 months ago in playlist frozenblock2's Favorited Videos
Took the hand of a preacher man and we Made love in the sun
did she fuck the vicar
ismcb4sc 5 months ago
dd
ebonylade123 5 months ago
Priscella the queen of the desert
TheShazlol 5 months ago
Her voice gives me the chills....
justacondom 5 months ago
I find the lyrics of this song quite deceiving, as they show a world which simply does not exist.
And I wonder how many actual divorces it created , out of idiot housewives who thought they actually had a go at all this bullshit.
Worse, drug head kids who did not receive a proper education since the wife was daydreaming about fucking kings in greek shores and all.
Nonetheless, a very pretty melody indeed.
rtdnlcastro 5 months ago
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THIS SONG TO ME HAS ALWAYS MEANT THAT WHERE EVER I GO, I TAKE ME WITH ME AND I NEVER TAKE TIME TO REALLY GET TO KNOW THIS PERSON THAT IS IN ME. AND WHEN I FINALLY TOOK TIME AND WAS PATIENT WITH HER , I TRULLY LOVED HER AFTER ALOT OF FORGIVNESS AND I REALIZED THAT SHE WAS THE PERSON I HAD ALWAYS RAN FROM AND TRIED TO HIDE FROM. NOW WE ARE "ONE" AND I FEEL HAPPINESS.
suziq100100 5 months ago
THIS SONG TO ME HAS ALWAYS MEANT THAT WHERE EVER I GO, I TAKE ME WITH ME AND I NEVER TAKE TIME TO REALLY GET TO KNOW THIS PERSON THAT IS IN ME. AND WHEN I FINALLY TOOK TIME AND WAS PATIENT WITH HER , I TRULLY LOVED HER AFTER ALOT OF FORGIVNESS AND I REALIZED THAT SHE WAS THE PERSON I HAD ALWAYS RAN FROM AND TRIED TO HIDE FROM. NOW WE ARE "ONE" AND I FEEL HAPPINESS.
suziq100100 5 months ago 2
This song is the one that my mother's favorite
nbjm11 6 months ago 2
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Shortsandsweets 6 months ago
It's about not knowing the real person inside, as we all tend to be someone we are not just to please other people we live in a fantasty world most of the time when the real paradise is within ourselves all we have to do is look for it once u find it ...... IT REALLY is BEAUTIFUL
Shortsandsweets 6 months ago 2
If you want to know the details behind this song, and what Charlene thinks about it, she now has an official site, CharleneSongs (d-t c-m - can't post URLs here). She has new songs on the site and her books too.
ReAnimusPress 6 months ago
My sister had this played at her funeral 2 years ago, she wanted it purley for the line "sublte whoring" in a religous place. RIP sis
scottomt 6 months ago 71
@scottomt I'm truly sorry, RIP
thegoldenpeacedude99 4 months ago
@scottomt I love your sister :-)
Ellie8969 4 months ago
@scottomt very nice story, thanks for sharing, blees her.
4444coldstream 4 months ago
@scottomt sorry about your sis, she had a great sense of humor
popofo66 3 months ago 11
@scottomt She must have been a real Cracker Jack! God bless her!
MrZip61 2 months ago
Maybe it is just a pretty girl who wants the freedom to act like a man. I have a soft spot for a sexy broad who likes to have a jolly good shag.
rickjones53 6 months ago
Is it about a high price postitute? Maybe...But, this son was written in the 70's and perhaps only those women from the 70's can relate to it. Women were screaming for equality in high-paying positions, choosing careers over marriages, yes, there was a lot of promiscuity because it came with the territory of not wanting to be 'tied down like mommy was' attitude. It is a song that I bet many women who are now in their 60's can relate to and possibly apply to their own experience.
hapycat1 6 months ago
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Good tune, stupid concept. I've had it all, travels, baby, men - no complaints. If you got stuck, too bad you didn't have the guts to fix it.
mopalia 6 months ago
Good tune, stupid concept. I've had it all, travels, baby, men - no complaints. If you got stuck, too bad you didn' have the guts to fix it.
mopalia 6 months ago
@ThePriscillification me to love this tune
123mrwilletts 7 months ago
Charlene's been to Monte Carlo indeed.
SilvanK 7 months ago
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I totally relate to this song because I've also done my share of subtle whoring, making love to random people on yachts, and being undressed by kings. I mean, who hasn't, right? This song's message really speaks to the every man. And as a man, who has been to both Georgia and California, and made love to a preacher man in the sun, I can echo wholeheartedly Charlene's regretful message.
flyboym535i 7 months ago
those who dont like this song because they are just not there. and pls dont criticize on things you dont know or hvt experiened.
stacialau 7 months ago
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TomBean21 7 months ago
All the song means is that she made life choices to be free and travel the world seeking happiness because she thought she needed that to be happy, and then realized when looking at her married friends with children that maybe she made some wrong choices for herself because she never found happiness..."there is no way to happiness, happiness IS the way." Just talk to anyone who has been a celebrity and they will tell you - they are seeking something that when they get there, doesn't exist.
dogrescuergirl 7 months ago
@dogrescuergirl you moron its about a prostitute hahahaha are you a kid?
deathgaze05 6 months ago
i love this song, but it always makes me think of drag queens hehe..
thisisbonkers 7 months ago
@thisisbonkers me but love it and i think drag queen love to do this tune
123mrwilletts 7 months ago
is this about high class international prostitute giving advice to a housewife?
xfraudbuster 7 months ago 57
@xfraudbuster Very funny, best comment i've seen on this song.
wsdmn 5 months ago
@xfraudbuster if it's the only thing you see in this song, I pity you
syntpowder 5 months ago 2
@xfraudbuster hahahaahahahahaha! GOLD!
courtjaye 5 months ago
ambot ninyo basta ako ganahan ko aning kantaha..
juvelynyacunas 7 months ago
what a gay song and so true for my life i have been all over the world on my looks but never been to meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
xcitin121 7 months ago
i used to sing along to this song on the radio in the car
feltinale95 7 months ago
SHUT UP! i totally know Charlene! omigosh i knew she wrote songs but i didnt know she was like FAMOUS! hha people shes an awesome person in real life my famz rly good friends with her and she loves her fans, you guys should read her auto-biography or however you say that (:
232stargazer 8 months ago
walay klaro nga song... don't really appreciate this song much.
youragod 8 months ago
i was a kid when i first heard this song. didn't know it's lyrics was about the trials and tribulations of women in hardship. brings me back to my youth
alexaadap 8 months ago
is this song about the life of "prostitutes"?
jaycorral12 8 months ago
it really is a pretty song.......and 2:33 to 2:41 is the very reason it's not popular today.....sing it louder Char', sing it louder!!!!!
MrChicago891 8 months ago
One of the most beautiful songs in my opinion.
mrsbelcher1987 8 months ago
@shitAintRight OF course...what would really suck would be if Charlene was undressed by a king...and then the king put on HER clothes.
KennBurch 8 months ago
give me subtle whoring to mopping floors any time lol!
nightnurse49 8 months ago
it is so sad........
MrAman0707 9 months ago
it is so touching
emmagirls123 9 months ago
I've been to ME. It's about 45 minutes southwest of Bakersfield California...
Charlene, you haven't missed much. It's cold in the winter, hot in the summer. Everything is overpriced, the place is overrun by gang members and there's no place to eat.
So quit whining B**ch!
buck62sugar 9 months ago
i love this somng cause she trying to tell us nt to make the same mistakes as she did
samdigeni 9 months ago 3
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@samdigeni "i love this somng cause she trying to tell us nt to make the same mistakes as she did"...
Hear that ladies? Your preacher is off limits.
buck62sugar 9 months ago
Does this song suck 'nuff for yall?
MrTonemaster 9 months ago
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the grass is always greener.....
TheMessyjean 9 months ago
@TheMessyjean ...when there isn't a water shortage...
KennBurch 8 months ago
the grass is always greener.....
TheMessyjean 9 months ago
Really girl? I would trade everything to experience what you regretted
duetothefore 10 months ago
definantly the gayest song ever
TheMajorBoner 10 months ago
@TheMajorBoner Well, it was once sung by "Jack" on WILL AND GRACE.
KennBurch 8 months ago
I spent my life exploring
The subtle whoring
That costs too much to be free
......
Don't knock it til you've tried it. ;)
xephyr1000 10 months ago
"I've been to paradise, but I've never been to Leeds"
farkinghill 10 months ago
I know this mean, I've been to top of my world at 40 or some years old, but I feel I never been to myself yet... I've got some happiness in exchange for gave some good times up, break some vows up...
hanasakura88 10 months ago
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OH! how true, how true
ronan177 10 months ago
I think that Charlene is trying to express many feelings that she has about her life. She seems to have regrets about her life and wishes that her life had turned out differently for her. She has wished for a fantasy life of having wonderful things. It sounds like she regrets that her relationship didn't work out and she never had the baby that she always wanted. I really believe she is singing about her disappointment that she never found the happiness that she always wanted for herself.
50s60steenidols 10 months ago 2
You should go to ME in the winter as you'll bump into fewer tourists and will have the beach to yourself. $99 round trip on Southwest.
buck62sugar 10 months ago
"...took the hand of a preacher man and we made love in the sun?" ...
Who said this song's no good? Who would have thought of stringing that line together?
On a BuckSugar scale of 1 to 10, I'll give that line a 9 for ballsy/audacity. Heh, Heh.
buck62sugar 10 months ago
THIS IS HORRIBLE! 1970's pretentious schlock at its worst!!! I had almost forgotten about it until Rebecca Black's "Friday" got people talking about what is the "worst song ever" and this one was a popular choice for that title. And, yeah, I looked it up on youtube just to hate on it!
mkeogh76 10 months ago
@mkeogh76 ...It's right up there, I agree. The arrangement reminds me of a mattell child's toy commercial, nursery room aero toy soundtrack or something equally as bathetic. Her singing is so faint it makes Olivia Newton John sound soulful. But as bad as all of this is, the worst part by far is that mid-break bit where she talks about fucking her husband with whom she fought with earlier in the day. I burst out laughing every time, it never fails.
911insidejo8 9 months ago
@911insidejo8 gold.
alphameo 3 months ago
extraordinary to think charlene went on to become a ruthless somalian pirate..who would have thought it. she sang this song for the other pirates on boring days - 'Ive robbed in zambia and northern gambia. I stole every boat in the sea. ive robbed in paradise but ive never been to greece'.
meisterly 10 months ago
=)
sanchezanson 11 months ago
i first heard this on singstar for the ps2 i used to sing my heart out to it :D
chilliconcarnie1 11 months ago
I heard this song from the radio and think It's very tuneful.
but when I realize the lyrics I can not like it as much as I want.
I am so young but I think woman(and also a guy :) ) can find her own paradize that not only happy family.
yothiga 11 months ago
My dad used to play this song a lot and I thought it was kind of weird, but now I really like it and I'm barely 18. I think it's lovely. Her voice is so sweet. :]
aznsweethart 11 months ago
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these are the songs that makes you think and at the same time touches your soul..
and the message is truly truthful and clear: "Whats more precious for a woman? than to have a husband and children who love her and care for her? "
I doubt you can see this in most American Families today, since Divorce, Adultery and all kinds of corruption have sneaked into American Families and its to the point that there is no going back...Marriage is a JOKE nowadays...
SAD... BUT TRUE..
JontheWretched 11 months ago
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these are the songs that makes you think and at the same time touches your soul..
and the message is truly truthful and clear: "Whats more precious for a woman? than to have a husband and children who love her and care for her? "
I doubt you can see this in most American Families today, since Divorce, Adultery and all kinds of corruption have sneaked into American Families and its to the point that there is no going back...Marriage is a JOKE nowadays...
SAD... BUT TRUE..
JontheWretched 11 months ago
What is all this worth if you`ve never been to YOU.....<3?
rocky01ist 1 year ago
I hate this song with all my being. It's probably the only song that actually makes me feel nauseous. I've always detested violence against women, but listening to this shit just makes me want to punch this bitch.
reichman73 1 year ago
@reichman73 here's some advice for you...DON'T LISTEN TO IT!!!!!
collin355 1 year ago 2
@reichman73 haaa made my day
SundayYacht 11 months ago
@reichman73 So, clearly, everything you are "against" is actually lurking beneath your pathetic surface. If you stopped for a second and LISTENED...she's sending a message of those behind her that are going to do the same shit...and probably with a pathetic fucker like you. You missed the whole point of the song you miserable cromangon dipstick.
spahjrp 11 months ago
Any theories as to what she saw that "a woman ain't 'sposed to see"? I was thinking it was guys braiding their armpit hair...but it could be something else.
KennBurch 1 year ago
@KennBurch I was thinking things along the lines of something violent....
aznsweethart 11 months ago
i love this song...
somehow... this is now the reality.
mayann141992 1 year ago
It's just great music. Finito!
Rainboy75 1 year ago
i love and hate this song coz it remind me of my younger years...and now as i become older.. im staring working hard to be a good wife and mother..
lanelia14 1 year ago
i love and hate this song.. it reminds me of my younger years...but now im working to be a good mother and wife..
lanelia14 1 year ago
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love this song!
barrby4 1 year ago
love this song!
barrby4 1 year ago
love this song!
barrby4 1 year ago
i heard this the day before my first day of highschool
memories man
drewp3ters 1 year ago
i think i spoiled the replay button:D
DrAgOnKnIgHtPowered 1 year ago
It's no wonder this song hit the top of the charts around the world but bombed here in the USA(it only reached #3 here on the charts). I prefer Mary McGregor's version!
pookerville 1 year ago
i kinda love this song cause it talks about reality,
eisynvonlajara 1 year ago
Much older than most posters. Listen to the words. Raise your children with a real father
jimbobsebring 1 year ago
My wife hates this song.
rolifantje 1 year ago 6
nice.!
MrWakoko12 1 year ago
I was once asked for the definition of a cynic. I said it's a person who hates this song and what it stands for.
dave4248 1 year ago
allways be your self
doncaster1959 1 year ago
i love this song. i love what its about. how realising that, instead of living off golden ideals of paradise and freedom, all she wanted was the humbling reality of family and truth. how love is at its best when its shared between people. how sometimes, your fantasies of an impossibly unattached and free life, should stay fantasies. ill say it again; i love this song.
grizzlychris1 1 year ago 3
@grizzlychris1 I always figured that ACTUAL housewives, hearing this song, would turn on Charlene and say "listen...at least you HAD the Greek Isles and actually WERE undressed by kings. For me, it's just been that cruddy public beach once a month and Ed Bob falling asleep as soon as he's finished. And if you really feel THAT bad about having all that fun, Charlene, you could change the twins and mop the freakin' floor for me while your here, BITCH!"
KennBurch 1 year ago 60
GREAT point! but for me this crap came on the radio when dad driving to the hospital when i was born.
bigbadbeast2007 1 year ago
I think she's saying all the rich things she did doesn't equal to being in a family. obviously an abusive relationship isn't any better but if you have a loving family with kids(whether father is there or not) better than whoring out your body and not having any thing. beauty only last so long. and you feel like shit for selling out.
nuknoblvr1 10 months ago
@KennBurch that's just rude.
sutherknight 10 months ago
@sutherknight Get over yourself. It's a comment about a silly pop song from thirty years ago. Charlene herself is probably SICK of the damn thing by now.
KennBurch 10 months ago
@KennBurch that's just rude.
sutherknight 10 months ago
@KennBurch roflmao!!!
kristinblume 9 months ago
@KennBurch this is the BEST comment i've heard in a looooooooooooong time! lol!
nightnurse49 8 months ago
@KennBurch We Irish have a saying, be careful what you wish for cause you just might get it.
driver3464 8 months ago
You clearly have no clue to what this song means!! I have been a "housewife" and a professional women at the same time. Sorry that ur good time is at a cruddy beach...that is real life ...we don't get to go Greek Isles!! Listen to song and the meaning.."Hey you know what paradise is, it's a lie a fantasy we create about people and places as we'd like them to be..but you know what truth is ..it's that little baby your holding and that man you fought with this morning be grateful for what u have
ChaosGirl888 8 months ago
@ChaosGirl888 Obviously, most people never get to go to Greek Isles...or get undressed by any member of a royal family...and that, basically is my point(btw, the scenario in my post was a joke, and not MY experience).
Charlene is singing this from a vantage point of a privileged person envying a non-privileged person her LACK of privilege. She ends up sounding like an aristocrat saying to a pauper "oh, I SO envy how simple your little life is". Actual working moms would tell her to shove it.
KennBurch 8 months ago
And yes, people shouldn't want what they're never going to have, perhaps, but at the same time people who have what most people will never have shouldn't talk to those who have nothing the way this song does.
Nothing personal.
KennBurch 8 months ago
@KennBurch dwrcl....haha...woooiiii...damn man.....dis av me cracking up!!!!
ColeyBruce 5 months ago
@KennBurch That's hilarious, grizzly. very funny. Just did this song at Karaoke in Local pub, near Manchester, and I didn't get stabbed. I'm pretty sure I'm not gay but this is one song I would love to cover but my band wont let me.
ghghkkj 5 months ago 2
@KennBurch The grass is always greener on the side, eh?! :))
avalachi 4 months ago 2
i just love ds song..,..
kimura101ph 1 year ago
I suppose in a way it could be a nice wedding song, as one who has finally realized that she needed to be herself for once? maybe from then on she could say that she had been to herself?
mysterious1961 1 year ago
my mum is no longer with us, but she is when we listen to this song.... so many memories of drunken nights finding out who we both were!! Love you and miss you mum xxx
stefanicee 1 year ago
my mum is no longer with us, but she is when we listen to this song.... so many memories of drunken nights finding out who we both were!! Love you and miss you mum xxx
stefanicee 1 year ago
i love this song
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jeanettelieya 1 year ago
This is my BF's song. He loves this song to bits and he said this is his song when he was younger and this song made him stronger and be a better man. He used to cry to this song everytime he heard this song
If he is down and upset he just turn this song on and just cry.
LeoAlonzoHodgson 1 year ago 2
Love this..Song it makes me feel like...i no its aright to be alone\ :}
carly9978 1 year ago
My mom used to play this song: My how my childhood memories make me feel like a child again...
trevylove 1 year ago 33
@trevylove Ditto.