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 ancinet 
melodies 
He turned to me as if to say, Hurry boy, it's waiting 
there for you 


CHORUS: 
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 
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 


(Instrumental break) 


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