If you’re looking for Africa lyrics, meaning the words to the iconic song by Toto, you’re in the right place. We’re just gonna arrange it so you can listen to them while listening to what should have been the official music video of the time. You know, back when music television channels actually played music (and long before anyone ever heard of no fucking “Snooki.”

Anyway. If you know what the term right arm of the free world refers to, have ever used the term brushstroke, or know why they say the soil of Africa is red, then you might enjoy this video take on #452 of Rolling Stone’s greatest song of all time.

Africa Lyrics

Hear the drums echoing tonight
But she hears only whispers of some quiet conversation
She’s comin’ in, 12:30 flight
Her moonlit wings reflect the stars that guide me towards salvation

I stopped an old man along the way
Hopin’ to find some old 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
There’s nothin’ 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, ooh-hoo

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 Olympus above the Serengeti
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
There’s nothin’ 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, ooh-hoo

Hurry, boy, she’s waiting there for you

It’s gonna take a lot to drag me away from you
There’s nothin’ 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)

I bless the rains down in Africa (I bless the rains)
I bless the rains down in Africa
I bless the rains down in Africa (ooh, I’m gonna take the time)
Gonna take some time to do the things we never had, ooh-hoo

And now, here’s your video!

Cover photo via Vatican News.

Toto’s Africa lyrics: they just kinda hit differently when set to a video of what’s actually happening in Africa pretty much all the time.

Africa, by Toto, was recorded in 1981 and released in 1982.

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