Toto

Released: May 6, 1990

Songwriter: David Paich Jean-Michel Byron

Producer: James Guthrie

I never felt like this with someone
I never knew I could feel this way at all
Predestination by appointment
Storybook realities are coming true
I was scared, you looked so helpless
Lust was dressed in good disguise

I took you on to meet my mother
Just like me, she fell straight in love with you
You took me to your own apartment
Was it me or does the night do things to you
You read from Venus and Adonis, so honey how could I resist!

C'mon baby we've got tonight
No one loses when two tigers fights
I lift you up, never let you down
I'll be the jester and you'll be the crown
We're instinctively impulsive, we're animal!

A body like yours should be arrested
Honey I should be locked up in a cage
We are flesh, we are carnal, we are human
We've got desires we can't contain
Smoke alarm is going off again
I guess I'm gonna have to cool you down

Say c'mom baby, we've got tonight
No one loses when two tigers fight
You'll be fire, I'll be the ice
So come on baby melt me ooh so nice
Instinctively impulsive, we're animal!

[Guitar Solo]

Some girls may turn my head
But only you, baby, turn me on
When we touch it's so explosive
It's seems my life's been leading to this! YEA!

Say c'mon baby, we've got tonight
No one loses when to tigers fight
You'll be fire, I'll be the ice
So come on baby melt me ooh so nice
Is it venom, is it magic? we're animal!

Ohhhhhh! We're Animaaaal!!

Toto is an American rock band formed in 1977 in Van Nuys in Los Angeles, California. The band’s current lineup consists of Joseph Williams (lead vocals), David Paich (keyboards, vocals), Steve Porcaro (keyboards), Steve Lukather (guitars, vocals), Shem von Schroeck (bass), and Shannon Forrest (drums). Toto is known for a musical style that combines elements of pop, rock, soul, funk, progressive rock, hard rock, R&B, blues, and jazz.

David Paich and Jeff Porcaro had played together as session musicians on several albums and decided to form a band. David Hungate, Steve Lukather, Steve Porcaro, and Bobby Kimball were recruited before their first album release. The band enjoyed great commercial success in the late 1970s and 1980s, beginning with the band’s eponymous debut released in 1978. With the release of the critically acclaimed and commercially successful Toto IV from 1982, Toto became one of the best-selling music groups of their era. They are best known for the Top 5 hits “Hold the Line”, “Rosanna”, and “Africa”. Several changes to the lineup have been made over the years. Hungate left in 1982 followed by Kimball in 1984 but rejoined the band in 1998 until 2008. Jeff Porcaro died in 1992 of a heart attack. Hungate rejoined Toto as a touring musician and later a band member. In 2008, Lukather announced his departure from the band, and the remaining band members later went their separate ways. In the summer of 2010, Toto reformed and went on a short European tour, with a new lineup, to benefit Mike Porcaro, who had been diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and was no longer an active member of the band.

The band has released a total of 17 albums, and have sold over 40 million albums to date. The group was honored with several Grammy Awards and was inducted into the Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum in 2009.

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