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Artist: Straight No Chaser
Canonical path: /straight-no-chaser/africa
Related lyric paths: 6
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Africa
Read Africa lyrics by Straight No Chaser on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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Curated by Ethan Walker
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Africa
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I hear the drums echoing tonight
But she hears only whispers of some quiet conversation
She's coming in twelve-thirty flight
Her moonlit wings reflect the stars that guide me towards salvation
I stopped an old man along the way
Hoping 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 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
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
Hurry boy, she's waiting there for you
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Straight No Chaser performs "Africa", and this lyric page sits inside the Straight No Chaser catalog on LyroVerse.
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