Intro: || (x4) I hear the drums echoin tonight She has only whispers of some quiet conversa - tion She's coming in twelve thirthy flight the moolight winds Reflect the stars that guide me toward salva-tion I stopped an old man along the way Hoping to find some old forgotten words of ancient melo-dies He turned to me as if to say hurry boy it's waiting there for you 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 | x2 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 compa-ny I know that I must do what's right Sure as kilimangiaro rises like olimpus above the serangetti I seek to cure what's deep inside Frightened of this thing that I've become 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 | x2 Gonna take some time to do the things we never had hurry boy she's waiting there for you 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 | Gonna take some time to do the things we never had