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Mmmmm, L. A 
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Proved too much for the man (too much for the man) 
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(He couldn't make it) So he's leaving a life     he's come to know 
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(He said he's going) Said he's going back to find (going back to find) 
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  What's left of his world 
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  A world he left behind not so very long ago,  oh yeah 
 
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He's leaving (leaving) on that midnight train to 
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Georgia (leaving on a midnight train), oh yeah 
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Said he's going back to find (he's going back to find) 
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A simpler place and time 
         (and, when he takes that ride, guess who's gonna be right by his side) 
 
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I'll be with him (I know you will) on that midnight train to Georgia  
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  (Leaving on the midnight train to Georgia... woo woo!) 
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  I'd rather live in his world (live in his...) than live without him in mine 
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(background voices: something about "his world")