I'm a Toto Idiot.

The only thing worse than realizing you bought an album 24 damn years go, is realizing you have been singing the wrong f'ing lyrics for those 24 years. I remember buying the cassette Toto IV with some saved birthday money at Caldor. I still have it laying around somewhere, its not like I listen to it every day, or even every decade or anything, but I will admit I have both Rosanna and Africa on my Ipod. (If this blog didn't clue you in already, I clearly have no shame.) But for 24 years I have been singing the wrong words..........motherfucker!

It's not "I cast the rain down in Africa" it's "I bless the rain down in Africa" not that this makes the song make anymore sense to me.

While on the topic of Toto IV and Africa, I would like to go on the record. Let the record show: that this song has the most awkward stanza of lyrics ever recorded. Here it is:

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

The last line is so awkward, this has seriously bothered, yet amused me for more than 2 decades. Rhyming Serengeti with company is bad enough, but that freaking final line is twice as long as the line they are trying to rhyme it with. You gotta give it a listen, its hysterical hearing him try to get all that out while keeping in time.
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I hear the drums echoing tonight
But she hears only whispers of some quiet conversation
She's 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, 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

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, 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