[Tommy Lamb]
I hear the drums echoing tonight
She hears only whispers of some quiet conversation

[Tommy Lamb/Duff Watrous]
She's coming in 12:30 flight
The moonlit wings reflect the stars that guide me towards salvation

[Rich Kennedy]
I stopped an old man along the way
Hoping to find some old forgotten words and ancient melodies

[Duff Watrous]
He turned to me as if to say

[Tommy Lamb/Duff Watrous/Rich Kennedy/Chorale]
"Hurry boy, she's waiting there for you"

[Chorale]
It's gonna take a lot to drag me away from you [Africa]
There's nothing that a hundred men or more could ever do [Africa]
I bless the rains down in Africa [Africa]
Gonna take some time to do the things we never had to do

[Tommy Lamb]
Wild dogs cry out in the night
As they grow restless longing for some solitary company

[Duff Watrous/Rich Kennedy]
I know that I must do what's right
As sure as Kilimanjaro rises like Olympus above the Serengeti

[Tommy Lamb/Duff Watrous/Rich Kennedy]
I seek to cure what's deep inside

[Tommy Lamb/Duff Watrous/Rich Kennedy/Chorale]
Frightened of this thing that I've become

[Chorale]
It's gonna take a lot to drag me away from you [Africa]
There's nothing that a hundred men or more could ever do [Africa]
I bless the rains down in Africa [Africa]
Gonna take some time to do the things we never had to do

[Chorale Interlude]

[Tommy Lamb/Duff Watrous/Rich Kennedy]
Hurry boy, she's waiting there for you

[Chorale]
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 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

[Duff Watrous/Rich Kennedy/Chorale]
Gonna take some time to do the things we never had to do