# Can you identify this song?

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**Created:** [December 6, 1999, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-identify-this-song/11735 "1999-12-06T14:08:00Z")\
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It’s a ballad, and the first words are something like “If there’s somewhere else you’d like to go, I wish you’d go there now. . . .”

It was released sometime between '81 and '84.

Thanks.