I Won't Hold You Back
Stop Loving You
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 stop to know that along the way
Hoping to find some long forgotten words or ancient melodies
I stopped an old man along to say, "Hurry boy, it's waiting there for
you"
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It's gonna take a lot to drag me away from you
There's nothing that 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 Kilimanjaro rises like Olympus above the Serangetti
I seek to cure what's deep inside, frightened of this thing that I've
become
Chorus
Hurry boy, she's waiting there for you
It's gonna take a lot to drag me away from you
There's nothing that 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
If I had another chance tonight
I'd try to tell you that the things we had were right
Time can erase the love we shared
But it gives me time to realize just how much you
cared
Now you're gone, I'm really not the same, I guess I
held myself to blame
Time can erase the things we said
But it gives me time to realize that you're the one
who's sad
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You know I won't hold you back now, the love we
had just can't be found
You know I can't hold you back now
Now that I'm alone it gives me time to think about
the years that you were mine
Time can erase the love we shared
But it gives me time to realize just how much you
cared
Chorus
Reflections in my mind thoughts I can't define
My heart is racing and the night goes on
I can almost hear a laugh coming from your photograph
Funny how a look can share a thousand meanings
Well-intended lies contemplating alibies
Is it really you or is it me I'm blaming
A distant memory flashes over me
Even though you're gone I feel you deep inside
Dance beneath the light with that look in your eyes
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I can't stop loving you time passes quickly and chances are few
I won't stop till I'm through loving you, girl
There's a window in a heart I've tried to look through from the start
You're never really sure what someone else is thinking
Someone's broken something new another altered point of view
Just a certain someone's conscience playing
I held it in my hand I did not understand
What lives inside the wind that cries her name
Tried to catch a shooting star what seems so close can't be that far
I'm living in a dream that's never ending
Dance beneath the light with that look in your eyes
Chorus
Ohh... Dancing with that look that's in your eyes
Chorus