Strangers in the night exchanging glances Wondring in the night What were the chances wed be sharing love Before the night was through.
Something in your eyes was so inviting, Something in you smile was so exciting, Something in my heart, Told me I must have you.
Strangers in the night, two lonely people We were strangers in the night Up to the moment When we said our first hello. Little did we know Love was just a glance away, A warm embracing dance away and -
Ever since that night weve been together. Lovers at first sight, in love forever. It turned out so right, For strangers in the night.
"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." ______________________
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.
Georgia, Georgia, The whole day through Just an old sweet song Keeps Georgia on my mind
I'm say Georgia Georgia A song of you Comes as sweet and clear As moonlight through the pines
Other arms reach out to me Other eyes smile tenderly Still in peaceful dreams I see The road leads back to you
I said Georgia, Ooh Georgia, no peace I find Just an old sweet song Keeps Georgia on my mind
Other arms reach out to me Other eyes smile tenderly Still in peaceful dreams I see The road leads back to you
Georgia, Georgia, No peace, no peace I find Just this old, sweet song Keeps Georgia on my mind
I said just an old sweet song, Keeps Georgia on my mind
RAY CHARLES (September 23, 1930 - June 10, 2004)
"In music you just can't escape when something is beautiful," Ray Charles said. Added the legendary singer/pianist/composer, "Like a good song, you can't get away from a good song. You have a good song, and it will still be beautiful, even when somebody with a bad voice sings it. I love the old writers, who wrote beautiful love songs. I came up on those kinds of songs. But I have just as much love for blues and jazz too. Ray Charles Robinson was born in Albany, Georgia on September 23, 1930. Charles was not born blind - he lost his sight to undiagnosed glaucoma at age seven. Starting his recording career in the late 1940's, Charles soon began experimenting, mixing genres. He began establishing a name for himself in clubs around the northwest, evolving his own music and singing style. Charles reworded the gospel tune "Jesus is all the World to Me" adding deep church inflections to the secular rhythms of the nightclubs, and the world was never the same. That song is widely credited as being the first true "soul" record. "You can't run away from yourself," Charles once said. "What you are inside is what you are inside. I was raised in the church and was around blues and would hear all these musicians on the jukeboxes and then I would go to revival meetings on Sunday morning. So I would get both sides of music. A lot of people at the time thought it was sacrilegious but all I was doing was singing the way I felt." Charles appeared in movies, such as "The Blues Brothers," and on television, and starred in commercials for Pepsi and California Raisins, among numerous others. Blessed with one of the 20th century's most advanced musical minds, Charles became an American cultural icon decades ago. He pioneered a new style and opened the door for many young performers to follow. Some of his biggest fans were the young music stars of today, who loved and admired his talent and independent spirit. Charles once told an interviewer from USA Today, "Music to me is just like breathing. I have to have it. It's part of me." And its also part of us.
