Africa Recorded by: Toto From the 1982 album, Toto IV I hear the drums echoing tonight, But she hears only whispers of some quiet conversation. She's coming in 12:30 flight, The moonlit wings reflect the stars that guide me towards salvation. I stopped an old man along the way, Hoping to find some long forgotten words or ancient melodies. He turned to me as if to say, "Hurry boy, it's waiting there for you" It's gonna take a lot to drag me away from you That's nothing more than a hundred men or more could ever do I bless the rains down in Africa Gonna take some time to do the things we never had The wild dogs cry out in the night, As they grow restless longing for some solitary company. I know that I must do what's right As sure as Kalimanjaro rises like Olympus above the Serangetti I seek to cure what's deep inside, frightened of this thing that I've become. It's gonna take a lot to drag me away from you That's nothing more than a hundred men or more could ever do I bless the rains down in Africa Gonna take some time to do the things we never had Instrumental Interlude Hurry boy it's waiting there for you It's gonna take a lot to drag me away from you That's nothing more than a hundred men or more could ever do I bless the rains down in Africa, I passed some rains down in Africa I bless the rains down in Africa, I passed some rains down in Africa I bless the rains down in Africa Gonna take some time to do the things we never had
I hear the drums echoing tonight, But she hears only whispers of some quiet conversation. She's coming in 12:30 flight, The moonlit wings reflect the stars that guide me towards salvation. I stopped an old man along the way, Hoping to find some long forgotten words or ancient melodies. He turned to me as if to say, "Hurry boy, it's waiting there for you"
It's gonna take a lot to drag me away from you That's nothing more than a hundred men or more could ever do I bless the rains down in Africa Gonna take some time to do the things we never had The wild dogs cry out in the night, As they grow restless longing for some solitary company. I know that I must do what's right As sure as Kalimanjaro rises like Olympus above the Serangetti I seek to cure what's deep inside, frightened of this thing that I've become.
It's gonna take a lot to drag me away from you That's nothing more than a hundred men or more could ever do I bless the rains down in Africa Gonna take some time to do the things we never had
Instrumental Interlude
Hurry boy it's waiting there for you It's gonna take a lot to drag me away from you That's nothing more than a hundred men or more could ever do I bless the rains down in Africa, I passed some rains down in Africa I bless the rains down in Africa, I passed some rains down in Africa I bless the rains down in Africa Gonna take some time to do the things we never had
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