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 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 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   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 Serangetti   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 Africa   Gonna take some time to do the things we never had      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