Phil Collins - Lorenzo lyrics

Once upon a time I made a lion roar

He was sleeping in the sunbeams on the old zoo floor

I had gone to see the park where my papa used to play

And it's called called 'Villa Borghese' and it's on the way

Oh, to East Africa

Down on Grand Comoro Island where I grew past four

Well, I could swim and fish and snorkel on the ocean floor

And the wind laughed and the wind laughed through the trees as if to say

Well, here's a child who'll want the world to go his way

Oh, in East Africa, oh, in East Africa

Suddenly for me the world turned upside down

Far from my friends, the lions and the dolphins, came this awful sound

Dark shadows, sounds of thunder raging over me

Came this monster called 'A-dre-no-leu-ko-dys-tro-phy

Oh, where's my East Africa?

Well they said, they said, they said - the ones who know it all

They said from now on for you there will be no more standing tall

So I took my parents' hands, I lifted my head to say

Well, I'll just have to be a hero, there's no other way, no other way

Oh, back to East Africa

Oh, back to East Africa

Oh, back to East Africa

Back to East Africa

Come with me I'm going back

Going back to East Africa...