<Table> <Tr> <Td> "Hungry" (1980) Hungry1980 </Td> <Td> "I've Never Been to Me" (1982) I've Never Been to Me1982 </Td> <Td> "Used to Be" (with Stevie Wonder) (1982) String Module Error: Match not found1982 </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> "Hungry" (1980) Hungry1980 </Td> <Td> "I've Never Been to Me" (1982) I've Never Been to Me1982 </Td> <Td> "Used to Be" (with Stevie Wonder) (1982) String Module Error: Match not found1982 </Td> </Tr> <P> "I've Never Been to Me" is a ballad, written and composed by Ron Miller and Kenneth Hirsch, which is best known via a recording by American pop singer Charlene . Its original release in 1977 barely registered on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States, but its re-release in 1982 hit #3 in the U.S. and earned her a Gold certification in Australia . In addition, the song topped the charts in Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom and Ireland . </P> <P> 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 like to 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 alternative set of lyrics for the song formatted for a male singer, in which the narrator is an elderly man, destined to die the very next day, 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 . </P>

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