Phil Collins

Released: October 21, 1996

Songwriter: Phil Collins Michaela Odone

Producer: Phil Collins Hugh Padgham

[Verse 1]
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
It's called called Villa Borghese and it's on the way

[Chorus]
Back to To east Africa[x4]

[Verse 2]
Down on Grand Comoro Island, where I grew past four
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
Here's a child who'll want the world to go his way

[Chorus]

[Verse 3]
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

[Chorus]

[Verse 4]
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
I'll just have to be a hero, there's no other way!

[Chorus]

[Outro]
I am going back to east Africa[x2]
Come with me I am going back[x3]
Well I think I am going back[?]
COme with me to east Africa

Phil Collins is an English singer, songwriter and musician who has also worked as a record producer and actor. He led a successful solo career after being the drummer and lead singer in the rock band Genesis.

Between 1983 and 1990, Collins scored three UK and seven US number-one singles in his solo career, and compiled more US top 40 singles than any other artist during the 1980s.

Internationally famous for his 1981 hit single “In the Air Tonight”, the most successful songs of his repertoire include “Sussudio”, “Another Day in Paradise”, “Against All Odds”.

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