I hear the drums

echoing tonight

And she has

only whispers of some

quiet conversation

She's coming in ,

twelve - thirty 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 - f orgotte n words

for ancient melodies

He turned to me

as if to say

“ Hurry , boy, it's waiting

there for you"

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 have For you

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

Sure as Kilimanjaro rises

like a limbless above

the sad Kenya

I seek to cure

what's deep inside

Frightened of this thing

that I've become

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 have For you

Hurry, boy, she's

waiting there for you

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 bless the rains down

in Africa

I bless the rains down

in Africa

I bless the rains down

in Africa

I bless the rains down

in Africa

Gonna take some time

to do the things

we never have For you