Going to Georgia
Lyrics
The most remarkable thing about coming home to you is the feeling of being in motion again
It's the most extraordinary thing in the world
I have two big hands and a heart pumping blood and a 1967 Colt .45 with a busted safety catch
The world shines as I cross the Macon county line
Going to Georgia
The most remarkable thing about you standing in the doorway is that it's you
And that you're standing in the doorway
And you smile as you ease the gun from my hand and I’m frozen with joy right where I stand
The world throws its light underneath your hair
Forty miles from Atlanta, this is nowhere
Going to Georgia
Banter
- I don't know, have we played this song once this tour? [Peter: Once.] Maybe once. This is a very old song. And if I remember correctly, I wrote it on either Christmas Day or the day after, and I was like man, there's something in that song. And I wrote it 4 or 5 times, 'cause I was pretty excitable in those days. And there was a version that went like this [intense strumming that only very loosely resembles Going to Georgia] but I didn't settle on that. I didn't wind up using any of the versions that I recorded and thought, maybe that song will just die. But then I did it on a radio show about a month later and that's the version that wound up on Zopilote Machine. (2009-12-01 Webster Hall)
Live Performances
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