Rex Trulove
Here is Nick Hermann again, this time playing and singing the hit made famous in 1981 by the group Toto. Every time I see one of Nick’s videos, I’m impressed. I’m really not all that easily impressed, so this is saying a lot. In this video, Nick does a good job on the vocals, but he is even better with the arrangement of musical instrumentation. This isn’t an easy song to play, yet he comes very close to the sound Toto was known for.
Here are the words to this song:
I hear the drums echoing tonight
But she hears only whispers of some quiet conversation
She’s coming in, 12:30 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
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
