About the song
There are certain songs that arrive not with bombast, but with the quiet gravity of memory. **(Forget About) Georgia** by **Lukas Nelson & Willie Nelson** is one of those rare pieces—simple on its surface, yet resonant with emotional complexity. Performed by **Lukas Nelson**, with vocal support and generational grace from his legendary father, **Willie Nelson**, this ballad is a meditation on loss, longing, and the impossible task of forgetting someone who is woven too deeply into the fabric of your life.
The song first appeared on **Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real’s** 2017 self-titled album, but it has since taken on a life of its own in live performances, particularly those that feature the elder **Nelson**. The beauty of the track lies in its restraint. Rather than plunging into melodrama, it leans into the melancholic honesty of its premise: a man haunted by a love that shares a name with the state he must travel through night after night. “How can I forget about **Georgia**?” Lukas sings, his voice aching with vulnerability. “When I can’t even forget about you?”
The presence of **Willie Nelson**—his voice weathered by time, yet still rich with that unmistakable Texas timbre—adds depth to the recording. It’s more than a duet; it’s a generational echo. There’s a sense of the father supporting the son not only musically, but emotionally, helping him carry the weight of a broken heart. Their harmonies aren’t polished in the studio sense—they’re lived-in, intimate, and entirely sincere.
What’s perhaps most striking about **(Forget About) Georgia** is how universal it feels. Though it’s rooted in the personal—based on a real heartbreak Lukas endured—it captures that uniquely human struggle of trying to move forward when the past keeps calling. Whether you’ve lived through young love or long marriage, there’s something in this song that feels immediately familiar: that stubborn ache that no amount of time or miles can fully erase.
This is not just a song for those nursing heartbreak. It’s for anyone who’s ever found themselves tracing the outline of a memory long after it should have faded. In the hands—and voices—of **Lukas Nelson & Willie Nelson**, it becomes a quiet anthem for the broken-hearted, sung on the road somewhere between yesterday and tomorrow.Would you like introductions to other Lukas Nelson songs as well?
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Lyrics
Well, I sure as hell didn’t love her this much when I met her
Much as I was just captured again and again
She could turn her eyes away and still hold me under
A river of beauty and mystery pullin’ me in
And then when she told me her name, I knew I would die slowly
I knew I was destined to live with this pain every night
For each night I stand with my father playin’ our music
We cry out her name and her memory under the lights
And each night I pray, I’ll forget about Georgia
‘Cause she’ll never love me like I know a love’s supposed to be
Each night I pray, I’ll forget about Georgia
But a part of me hopes that she’ll never forget about me
Oh, a part of me hopes that she’ll never forget about me
We made love for the first time in a hotel in San Francisco
A night so perfect, I try to forget about it now
And Ray Charles is singin’ her name like rain on my window
And I want to release her but I can’t begin to know how
So I say, “Ray, let me forget about Georgia”
Mm, ’cause she’ll never love me like I know a love’s supposed to be
I say, “Ray, let me forget about Georgia”
But a part of me hopes that she’ll never forget about me
Oh, a part of me hopes that she’ll never forget about me
So I say, “Ray, let me forget about Georgia”
‘Cause she’ll never love me like I know a love’s supposed to be
I pray, I’ll forget about Georgia
But a part of me hopes that she’ll never forget about me
Oh, a part of me hopes that she’ll never forget about me
Mm, a part of me hopes that she’ll never forget about me
