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Africa Lyrics by Chris De Burgh

Footsteps

2008

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 long forgotten words or ancient memories
He turned to me as if to say, "Hurry boy, it's waiting there for you"
Gonna to take a lot to drag me away from you
There's nothing that a hundred men or more could ever do
I'll bless the rains down in Africa
Going to take some time to do the things we never had;
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
Gonna to take a lot to drag me away from you
There's nothing that a hundred men or more could ever do
I'll bless the rains down in Africa
Going to 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"ll bless the rains down in Africa
I'll bless the rains down in Africa
I'll bless the rains down in Africa
I'll bless the rains down in Africa
I'll bless the rains down in Africa
Going take some time to do the things we never had....
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Chris De Burgh

Chris De Burgh

About “Africa” by Chris De Burgh

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"Africa" appears on "Footsteps" in 2008.

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