maybe thats what he means by blessing the rain. The real meaning behind Toto's 'Africa' Pop songs are meant to be popular. It was a fertile time to make music with new sounds, and that kind of defined that song. This one barely made it; it just got on the end of the Toto IV album. ""Jingle Bells, Batman Smells" is one of the most significant documented viral songs among English-speaking children. I think its a love song as well and thats reflected in several of the lyrics. It refers to the female genitalia. I mean not always, for us anyway, so that was a very special record. Drums beating and so on would be the African natives asking for rain in their own way.

'"I realised I had a song in the making, so I started writing on the Yamaha CS-80, which you hear in the intro – that's the keyboard playing – and then you hear the little kalimba sounds [on the Yamaha GS1] in the chorus. The old man silently tells him that she won't wait forever. Should I become…a bidet person?
"Its first inception came when there used to be UNICEF commercials on TV, showing children and families living in poverty. The record companies knew this, and that's why you hear so many similar sounding songs from any given year. In a sense, yes, but the occasion was months ago and the "old man" was Africa itself. I don't think anyone knows what they are talking about. I believe it's about the very long, relentless, horrible drought that was going on in Africa at the time of the writing of this song.

Perhaps the romantic relationship is between his grand or great-granparents. His heart is torn between her and Africa. I'm giving you On count of three To show your stuff Or let it beEver since the great TP shortage of 2020, it's a thought that's been inching around in the back of your mind. Then the rest i'm not sure of But how did a band from Los Angeles get famous for a song about Africa? Maybe about not knowing what to do. I've heard it said many times in movies and quotes about long distance relationships that one person would "kiss the rain" and then when it rains in the other persons location all they have to do is stand in the rain to feel the blessing/ kisses of their love. In any case its definitly a love song. he stops an old man for advice(wisdom) on his relationship with the woman. She talks about flight numbers, her last day at work before taking leave, her family, and so on. I personally think it's about a woman he met while in Africa and fell in love with.

All lyrics provided for educational purposes only. I might be a little talented, but I'm not that talented – God's using me for an instrument here! well i think its pretty obvious..he's in africa doing missionary work..what hes talking about is not a female at all..its the storm coming.."i hear the drums echoing tonight" thats thunder..the 12:30 flight is the storm coming in.."it's gonna take alot to take me away from you" meaning he's there on a mission and he'll do whatever it takes to keep helping..thats where he's blessing the rains down in africa..God sent him on a mission and he's not gonna give up..you can pretty much compare it Haiti or New Orleans..or anyone in need for that matter..it just happens to be Africa in his lyrics..plain and simple!!! Well the Africa song by Toto is about how this guy lives in Africa and he is in love with this girl from America and she is coming into Africa on the 12:30 flight to have the guy come with her back to America but he can't decide if he is in love with the girl or if he want's to stay in Africa. Some of them never made it into the priesthood because they needed companionship. The answer is a resounding yes. So the band kind of indulged me and let me start working on this track for it. Americans use about 36.5 billion rolls […]Batman never roars into the Gotham night without his utility belt. Why doesnt he just marry an african chick It's kind of the joke — when someone writes a song that doesn't really fit into the Toto mold, the joke is, everybody says, 'Save that for your solo album.'

It became popular, kind of like a little cult thing, and all of a sudden started climbing the charts.

Did the singer really come across this enigmatic figure on the way to an arrival-hall reunion with his girlfriend? I think the song is referring to a long distance relationship. Personally, I feel like this song doesn't have a true meaning.

Obviously, generations later, all the descendants of these colonists, might think of Africa in the back of their minds, though they never visited it.

When she hears quiet conversations, that's when she's on the plane. Either he, or his loved one is in Africa or perhaps they met on a vacation to Africa. I think that when he hears the drums echoing, he's somewhere in Africa. Learn more. Dave Simpson of The Guardian r…

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Read about what we do with the data we gather in our Who will be eaten first? It is also about the loss of S. Africa and Rhodesia to the Communists.. They didn't exactly see eye to eye, possibly because of something in his past, as mentioned later in the song. He's looking for the airplane's wings because that gives him salvation and that a hundred men could never drag him away from her because he's in soo much love with her.

As he travels back to her home village, he sees an old man, hoping it's someone he knows with whom he can reminisce about his young romance with her.