Key: C# minor•
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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I hear the drums echoing tonight
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But she hears only whispers
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of some quiet conversation
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She's coming
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in 12: 30 flight
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The moonlit wings reflect the stars that
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guide me towards sal vation
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I stopped an old
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man along the way
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Hoping to find some long forgotten
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words or ancient melod ies
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He turned to me as if to say, "Hurry boy,
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Verse 2
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It's gonna take a lot to drag
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me away from you
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There's nothing that a hundred
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men or more could ever do
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I bless the rains down in Africa
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Gonna take some time to do the
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things we never had
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The
Verse 3
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cry out in the night
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As they grow restless longing for
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some solitary company
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I know that I must
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As sure as Kilimanjaro rises like Olympus
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above the Serangetti
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frightened of this thing that I've become
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Verse 4
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It's gonna take a lot to drag
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me away from you
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There's nothing that a hundred
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men or more could ever do
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I bless the rains down in Africa
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Gonna take some time to do the things we never had
Interlude 1
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Verse 5
Verse 6
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It's gonna take a lot to drag
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me away from you
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There's nothing that a hundred
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men or more could ever do
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I bless the rains down in
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Africa
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Gonna take some time to do the things we never had
Outro 1
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