"I hear the drums echoing tonight" - Lefebvre of course spent many years in Africa doing missionary work.
"...Hoping to find some old forgotten words or ancient melodies" - Lefebvre, like many, did not like how the old mass and Gregorian chant were thrown out with the bathwater after Vatican II.
"It's gonna take the lot to drag me away from you/There's nothing that a hundred men or more could ever do" - Lefebvre throws down the gauntlet and lets Pope Paul and the Vatican know that he will never abandon the old Mass, come what may.
"I know that I must do what's right/Sure as Kilimanjaro rises like Olympus above the Serengeti" - Lefebvre must do what's right. It is only natural.
"I seek to cure what's deep inside/Frightened of this thing that I've become" - Still, Lefebvre, being a loyal son of Holy Mother Church, can only be frightened by what he must do by standing in opposition to the Pope, even though he knows it is the right thing to do.
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Africa is of course an ode to Marcel Lefebvre:
"I hear the drums echoing tonight" - Lefebvre of course spent many years in Africa doing missionary work.
"...Hoping to find some old forgotten words or ancient melodies" - Lefebvre, like many, did not like how the old mass and Gregorian chant were thrown out with the bathwater after Vatican II.
"It's gonna take the lot to drag me away from you/There's nothing that a hundred men or more could ever do" - Lefebvre throws down the gauntlet and lets Pope Paul and the Vatican know that he will never abandon the old Mass, come what may.
"I know that I must do what's right/Sure as Kilimanjaro rises like Olympus above the Serengeti" - Lefebvre must do what's right. It is only natural.
"I seek to cure what's deep inside/Frightened of this thing that I've become" - Still, Lefebvre, being a loyal son of Holy Mother Church, can only be frightened by what he must do by standing in opposition to the Pope, even though he knows it is the right thing to do.
Infidel, I must and shall quote you.
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