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
what’s left of his world,
The world he left behind
not so long ago.

He’s leaving 
on that midnight train to Georgia.
Said 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 hung all his hopes
and he even sold his own car.
Bought a one way ticket back
to the life that he once knew.
Oh yes he did.
He said he would.