Georgia
Lyrics
Vance Joy
Written by: James Keogh
Produced by: Ryan Hadlock, Edwin White, James Keogh
Elegant and bold
She is electricity
Running to my soul
And I could easily lose my mind
The way you kiss me will work each time
Calling me to come back to bed
Singing Georgia On My Mind
Lips generous and warm
You build me up like steps
Eyes innocent and wild
Remind me what it's like
And I could easily lose my mind
The way you kiss me will work each time
Pulling me back into the flames
And I'm burning up again
I'm burning up
And I, I never understood what was at stake
I never thought your love was worth its wait
Well now you've come and gone
I finally worked it out
I worked it out
I never should have told you
I never should have let you see inside
Don't want it troubling your mind
Won't you let it be
[x4]
And I could easily lose my mind
The way you kiss me will work each time
Pulling me back into the flames
And I'm burning up again
I'm burning up
And I, I never understood what was at stake
I never thought your love was worth its wait
Well now you've come and gone
I finally worked it out
I worked it out
Song facts
"This one is the song I was saying I started in 2007 with a guitar riff that sounded kind of groovy and had a cool vibe that the guitarist that I had when I was at St Kevin's [College, Melbourne] could play, but I never found a place for it. I tried at different times to put it into a song but it never fitted comfortably, and then on New Year's Day this year I was just mucking around and finally I just came up with a verse that sat nicely over the top of that guitar progression, and I had some more words that were kind of laying in wait from earlier that year – I wrote a chorus but I couldn't find a place for it – and I stuck the two together and the song was done in, like, half an hour. It just needed that breakthrough moment.
Actually it's one that we've been really enjoying playing. It was kind of a gift, you know, 'cause we'd done all the recording basically and then that song arrived and I was excited to record it really sparkly. It's a nice change on the album, 'cause most of the album is me strumming away and this is more of a delicate thing, a different song." - Vance Joy
