Toto - Africa

[Detroit City]

Is this song worth a thread?.

I highly doubt it

 

[Madusa]

Anyway... about this choon...

 

[Orang Utan]

Yes...

 

[Madusa]

Well, I told you what it means to me...

Left Turn what'syerface, what does Toto's Africa mean to you?

 

[Orang Utan]

I just like singing along to it when I'm drunk

 

[Dr. Furface]

The wild dogs cry out in the night
As they grow restless longing for some solitary company
I know that I must do whats right
Sure as kilimanjaro rises like olympus above the serengeti

The most excruciatingly forced 'rhyme' in the history of pop

 

[Orang Utan]

The wild dogs cry out in the night
As they grow restless longing for some solitary company
I know that I must do whats right
Sure as kilimanjaro rises like olympus above the serengeti

The most excruciatingly forced 'rhyme' in the history of pop

It's like those poems that tramps write for the Big Issue.

 

[Madusa]

I just like singing along to it when I'm drunk

It's a great song to strip to.

 

[Orang Utan]

It's a great song to strip to.

Are you speaking from experience?

 

[El Jefe]

It's like those poems that tramps write for the Big Issue.

heh

 

[Madusa]

Are you speaking from experience?

Yeah...experience of watching.

 

[ViolentPanda]

OK, it's up there in my favourite songs of all time, along with David Soul's Silver Lady and Del Shannon's Runaway, but what does it actually mean?

Video:


Lyrics:
I hear the drums echoing tonight
But she hears only whispers of some quiet conversation
Shes 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, its waiting there for you

Chorus:
Its gonna take a lot to drag me away from you
Theres 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 whats right
Sure as kilimanjaro rises like olympus above the serengeti
I seek to cure whats deep inside, frightened of this thing that Ive become

Chorus

(instrumental break)

Hurry boy, shes waiting there for you

Its gonna take a lot to drag me away from you
Theres 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 rains down in africa, I bless the rains down in africa
I bless the rains down in africa
Gonna take some time to do the things we never had

It means nowt. It's just a load of crusty smegma on a horse's unwashed cock.

 

[ViolentPanda]

I want a pain au chocolat

You can have pain au dripping and like it!

 

[Madusa]

It means nowt. It's just a load of crusty smegma on a horse's unwashed cock.

Dont be an imbeccile on such matters of importance!

 

[ViolentPanda]

You just inserted a post in my conversation with isitme. Words cannot express how much I'm imagining you being Deliveranced right now.

Much better to "Southern Comfort*" him, and do worldwide womankind a favour.

(*To get stabbed between the legs from below by a half-insane Cajun swamp-fucker)

 

[ViolentPanda]

Is this song worth a thread?

Sure as Kilimanjaro rises like Olympus above the Serengeti.

Which is daft, because Olympus can't do the rising thing "like" Kilimanjaro can, what with being significantly shorter.

 

[ViolentPanda]

Dont be an imbeccile like me on such matters of taste!

Corrected.

 

[cesare]

You can have pain au dripping and like it!

Meanie I had a bacon bap

 

[cesare]

Much better to "Southern Comfort*" him, and do worldwide womankind a favour.

(*To get stabbed between the legs from below by a half-insane Cajun swamp-fucker)

SCDC

 

[xenon]

Well it's alright, in a catchy centimental loada old dross really, type way.

Seeing the naked awkward lirics for so many songs does them no favours.

 

[rekil]

We had this very important and influential compilation which was marred only by Toto.

 

[Someoneyouknow]

Toto in a scary earthquake?

 

[isitme]

'its like those poem tramps write in the big issue' is fucking genius i''ll definetely be using that

 

[cesare]

'its like those poem tramps write in the big issue' is fucking genius i''ll definetely be using that

I meant to do a big lolz at that as well but I forgot cos I is rubbish

 

[Melinda]

da-dum dum-dum da-dum dum daaaaaaaaa

da-dum dum-dum da-dum dum daaaaaaaaa

Thanks for a very happy 4 minutes!

 

[ViolentPanda]

SCDC

Sounds fine and dandy to me! SCDC it is!

 

[pogofish]

It brings back memories of times places & people that are probably best buried & the lyrics were keech even then.

 

[ViolentPanda]

It brings back memories of times places & people that are probably best buried & the lyrics were keech even then.

Kitsch, dear.

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=dt1fB62cGbo

 

[pogofish]

Kitsch, dear.

Not if you are Scottish.