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54th Street is a two-mile-long, one-way street traveling west to east across Midtown Manhattan.

The lyric is likely referring to The Hit Factory which was a famous recording studio located at 421 West 54th Street, New York, NY, 10019.

It closed in April 2005. The building is now used by Music Theatre International, a theatrical licensing agency.

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After you experience bad things somewhere, you don’t want to be around there anymore. He says that if it doesn’t get any better, he’ll be leaving.

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He’ll be ready when he sees the train pull in, that way he can leave the town he’s stuck in and move on with his life.

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The people in his town are more than he can handle. He wants to leave but there’s nowhere for him to go.

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“Things Are Changing” is a song recorded in 2004 for Gary Clark Jr.’s first album, 110.

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This song was also on GCJ’s 2010 Gary Clark Jr. EP.

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“Numb” is the second single from Gary Clark Jr.’s major label debut album, Blak and Blu. It was also featured on his first independent album, 110, in 2004.

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This song was originally heard on his Gary Clark Jr. EP from 2010.

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The title track from Gary Clark Jr.’s major label debut album, Blak and Blu.

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James Marshall “Jimi” Hendrix (born Johnny Allen Hendrix; November 27, 1942 – September 18, 1970) was an American musician, singer and songwriter. Despite a limited mainstream exposure of four years, he is widely considered one of the most influential electric guitarists in the history of popular music, and one of the most important musicians of the 20th century.

Inspired musically by American rock and roll and electric blues, following his initial success in Europe with The Jimi Hendrix Experience, he achieved fame in the US after his 1967 performance at the Monterey Pop Festival. Later, he headlined the Woodstock Festival in 1969 and the Isle of Wight Festival in 1970, before dying from drug-related asphyxia at the age of 27.

Instrumental in developing the previously undesirable technique of guitar amplifier feedback, Hendrix favored overdriven amplifiers with high volume and gain. He helped to popularize the use of the wah-wah pedal in mainstream rock and he pioneered experimentation with stereophonic phasing effects in rock music recordings.

The recipient of several music awards during his lifetime and posthumously, the Jimi Hendrix Experience was inducted into the US Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1992, and the UK Music Hall of Fame in 2005. Rolling Stone ranked his three non-posthumous studio albums, Are You Experienced?, Axis: Bold as Love, and Electric Ladyland among the 100 greatest of all time; they ranked Hendrix as the greatest guitarist and the sixth greatest artist.

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