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by Howie Day


Howie Day - Africa - Toto cover
By: ADAM


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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
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I stopped an old man along the way
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Hoping to find some long forgotten words or ancient melodies
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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 nothing that a hundred men or more could ever do
                           
I bless the rains down in Afr--ica
                                           
Gonna take some time to do the things we never had

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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 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 nothing that a hundred men or more could ever do
                           
I bless the rains down in Afr--ica
                                           
Gonna take some time to do the things we never had

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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 Afr--ica
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