Monday, October 16, 2006
"Simpler place and time" my ass
On my way to work this morning a song came on the radio, called “Midnight Train to Georgia”, or something like that. Maybe it’s just called “Midnight Train”. Anyway, are you familiar with it? It’s about this girl who meets this guy in Los Angeles. They fall in love (or at least she does anyway). Then the guy decides he can’t hack it in the city and decides to move back to Georgia. Without her. She decides she’d rather “live in his world than live without him” in hers.
It’s supposed to be a sweet song about love and devotion and whatever, but I just don’t see it that way. I want to march up to this lady and tell her, “Girlfriend, pull yo head outta yo ass. You wanna drop everything and chase this homeboy all the way to Georgia? Are you outta yo mind? This sucka came to LA with nuthin’, tryin’ to make somethin’ outta nuthin’, then decided to give up and now he’s leavin’ yo ass to hightail it back to Georgia. He tell you he wanna go back to a ‘simpler place and time’? Girl, he movin’ back with his parents! Make no mistake, this scrub losa is not worth your time!”
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