Song 2: Train Ride

[j3ff77]

Hi everyone. Just starting to get organized. Bought the music and lyrics the other day. looking at the first verse of song 2 right now.
I am figuring that we need a starting point and it looks like that is down south.


The first verse seems to be referencing a lot of song names throughout.

Right away, I noticed a lot of Ray Charles & Georgia references.

"I'm on a midnight train, but to where, I don’t know" - Midnight Train to Georgia by Gladys Knight and the Pips

"it's like the blind leading the blind, but say it ain't so" - Ray Charles was blind - Wheezer recorded "Say it Ain't So" in Atlanta, Georgia

"hit the road jack" - Ray Charles

"Night time is the right time" Ray Charles covered this in 1958

[rhoddir2hedfan]

I'm seeing even more Ray Charles references. Ain't It So, Come Rain Or Shine, Georgia On My Mind, In The Heat Of the Night, Genius Loves Company, and Chattanooga Choo Choo have all been recorded by him. I'm sure there's more.

[billy]

Verse 1 - This is ALL about Ray Charles, there's like a dozen song references. Ray Charles was born in Albany, GA and died in Beverly Hills, CA, "from the steets in the east, to the hills in Beverly".

I suspect we're headed for a train stop, but not sure that it HAS to be Amtrak.

Verse 2 - He talks about his word play and to be aware of the double meanings. "this stop here, is very historic" - there is an historic train station in Albany, GA.  "To walk a few blocks, will be essential to reach a destination, that's monumental" - a few blocks south is the Ray Charles Memorial.  "That CD to me, is like an icon while most, just let by gones be by gones" = right around the corner is Icons Bar & Grill (b & g). "Look across the river" - The memorial is right on the Flint River. Now he says, "I'm in the right place, but the wrong state". I'm thinking he means a different Albany, and I would lean towards Albany, NY since he is a rapper and seems to be living in that area now.