Midnight Train to Georgia

"Midnight Train to Georgia" is a 1973 number-one hit single by Gladys Knight & the Pips. It won the 1974 Grammy Award for Best R&B Vocal Performance By A Duo.

The theme of the song is how romantic love can conquer differences in background. The boyfriend of the song's narrator is a failed musician who left his native Georgia to move to Los Angeles to become a "superstar, but he didn't get far". He decides to give up, and "go back to the life he once knew". Despite the fact that she's settled and secure in herself, the narrator decides to move to Georgia with him:

"And I'll be with him
On that midnight train to Georgia
I'd rather live in his world
Than live without him in mine."
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L.A. proved too much for the man,
So he's leaving the life he's come to know,
He said he's going back to find
Ooh, what's left of his world,
The world he left behind
Not so long ago.
He's leaving,
On that midnight train to Georgia,
And he's going back
To a simpler place and time.
And I'll be with him
On that midnight train to Georgia,
I'd rather live in his world
Than live without him in mine.
He kept dreaming
That someday he'd be a star.
But he sure found out the hard way
That dreams don't always come true.
So he pawned all his hopes
and he even sold his old car
Bought a one way ticket
To the life he once knew,
Oh yes he did,
He said he would
Be leaving
On that midnight train to Georgia,
And he's going back
To a simpler place and time.
And I'll be with him
On that midnight train to Georgia,
I'd rather live in his world
Than live without him in mine.
Go, gonna board, gonna board,
Gonna board the midnight train.

L.A. le ha enseñado demasiado;
así que, dejará la vida que vino a conocer,
dijo que va a volverse para encontrar
lo que dejó de su mundo,
el mundo que dejó atrás
no hace mucho.
Va a irse
en el tren de medianoche a Georgia,
se vuelve
hacia lugares y tiempos más simples.
Y yo estaré con él
en el tren de medianoche a Georgia.
Prefiero vivir en su mundo
que vivir sin él en el mío.
Él siguió soñando
que algún día sería una estrella.
Pero seguramente encontró el camino duro
en el que los sueños nunca se hacen realidad.
Así que, pagó con todas sus esperanzas
e incluso vendió su viejo coche
para comprar un billete de vuelta
hacia la vida que una vez conoció,
Sí, lo hizo,
dijo que quería
irse
en el tren de medianoche a Georgia,
Y va a volver para encontrar
lugares y tiempos más simples.
Y yo estaré con él
en el tren de medianoche a Georgia.
Prefiero vivir en su mundo
que vivir sin él en el mío.
Venga, subamos, subamos al tren de medianoche a Georgia.