| Toto – Africa Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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@[Dumbdumb:8946] I like your interpretation. I've traveled in six continents in many countries, and saw it as an expansion and enhancement of my identity and life. When I moved half way thru my life to the place I wanted to be, though, it was still in the United States. Still it was a life reboot, a starting over, and had been successful (there was a girl later on, and now I'm an old retired grandpa!). Anyway, what strikes me about this song is that it brings up the mystical, esoteric side of life, like a religious kind of experience to be a new person in a new land where all the rules have changed. A calling, rather than a plan. The logical side of me falls away when I listen to this song, and now I wonder if I can give a new interpretation to the very different and strange places I've been, and have yet to go. Sometimes, as in Zen, we have to lose ourselves to find ourselves. You gave me an idea why this song absorbs my attention. |
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