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Phil Collins – Lorenzo (1996) | Track profile | Dork

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Dance into the Light
Lorenzo

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Lorenzo

Release date: 21st October 1996

From Dance into the Light

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"Lorenzo" is a track by Phil Collins, from the album Dance into the Light, released 21st October 1996. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 1 article about Phil Collins.

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Lyrics

Lorenzo

[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 Villa Borghese and it's on the way

[Chorus]

To east Africa

[Verse 2]

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

Here's a child who'll want the world to go his way

[Chorus]

Oh woah woah

In east Africa

Oh woah woah

In east Africa

Come sing it

[Instrumental Break]

[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]

Oh woah woah

Where is my east Africa

[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

Well I'll just have to be a hero, there's ain't no other way!

No other way

[Chorus]

Oh woah woah

Back to east Africa

Oh woah woah

Back to east Africa

Oh woah woah

Back to east Africa

Back to east Africa

East Africa

[Outro]

I am going back to east Africa

I am going back to east Africa

Come with me I am going back

Well I think I am going back[?]

Come with me to east Africa

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From Dance into the Light

1996

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Album

Dance into the Light

Release year

1996

—Love Police
—River So Wide
—The Times They Are A-Changin'
—Lorenzo
—Oughta Know by Now
—Take Me Down
—Just Another Story
—That's What You Said
—It's Over
—I Don’t Want to Go
—Another Time

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Credits

Production & Engineering

Writer: Michaela Odone, Phil Collins
Producer: Hugh Padgham, Phil Collins