Africa by Toto - Live at Thompson-Boling Arena - Knoxville, Tennessee

            ‧  Artist - Toto (final track on their fourth studio album Toto IV)
‧  Recorded - 1981
‧  Released - June 25, 1982 (UK); October 1982 (US)
‧  Studio - Sunset Sound (Hollywood)
‧  Genre - Soft Rock
‧  Length - 4:55 (album version); 4:21 (radio and video edit)
‧  Label - Columbia
‧  Composer(s) - David Paich, Jeff Porcaro
‧  Lyricist - David Paich

-- Africa --
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
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 take 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 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 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 bless the rains down in Africa
(I bless the rain)
I bless the rains down in Africa
(I bless the rain)
I bless the rains down in Africa
I bless the rains down in Africa
(Ah, gonna take the time)
Gonna take some time to do the things we never had

Video recorded on my Samsung S21.
   

Taken in: United States / Tennessee / Knoxville (show map)

Taken on: February 18, 2023

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