Georgia On My Mind

Theres a place called Georgia on my mind,
All the things I thought I would see,
All the things I thought I would know,
Disappeared when he walked away.

He's a Georgia boy,
Who had my heart all to himself,
But he burnt it like,
Words on paper.

He thought I would soon forget,
All that I ever felt for him,
But unlike the words on paper,
Things imprinted in your heart are unforgetful.

Days on end,
My heart would call for him,
My structure would soon fall,
When he didn't come back.

I began the journey,
The one that I knew would take,
A long time to overcome,
A long time to forget.

I often found myself,
Waiting for his phone call,
I often found myself,
Thinking about him.

The fact that he left me,
Should've made me want to forget,
But it doesn't scare me nor,
Did it make me think different.

I got Georgia on my mind again,
When that Georgia boy called up,
Said he wanted to see how I was doing,
Just when I was building myself back up again.

I wanted to ask him,
Why he even bothered to call,
I won't hear from him in months again,
I, now, have to start all over again.

I have to build my structure to keep me still standing,
I have to build my courage to keep me going on,
I have to build my hopes to keep me loving another man,
I have to build my mind so I don't go running back that Georgia boy.

That Georgia boy,
Tore me down and walked away without even saying sorry,
Broke me down and didn't even see what he had done,
Destroyed me and didn't even offer to give me back my heart.

It's been a year or two,
I've gotten most of my heart out of that Georgia boy's grasp,
So much self-destruction I have done to myself,
With Georgia on my mind.