The rain sneezed. He said “Bless you!” 
When I was quite young, there was an election, and afterwards a new government was sworn in. I knew nothing about politics, but had recently heard a few interesting words which I knew were called swearing. When I noticed the comment on the news about the swearing-in of the government, I imagined some rough-looking official saying something to these new politicians along the lines of “Well, shit. You are fucking well in.”
In the sense of “Well, bless your heart!”
I never truly got the story in this song - a guy’s going to the airport to pick up his beloved girlfriend, and they never more will part yada yada, typical song stuff. But he’s also having a hallucination about being on a safari in east Africa, and the hallucination is gradually taking over his conscious being? Is the girlfriend going to take him straight to the sanitarium, I hope?
Captivating music, of course.
IMO, the best songs are ones in which I can sing different parts at any time. Some of my favorites I want to hear over and over because I can’t decide which I like more: “Haven’t We Been Here Before” by Styx is one.
I’m a big time singalong person. I sing the harmony part of almost all songs when there is one. Sometimes if first verse of a song doesn’t have a harmony, and I’ll sing the harmony as it exists in the second verse, for fun.
In the case of this particular chorus, I probably would not sing a harmony into the first line. It is deliberately left out in all 3 choruses. It’s a nice build-up the way it is. I get enough harmony out of the rest of the chorus for my “harmony fix.”
ETA: I just noticed the Low and Weezer version harmonizes the first line. 
Seems like a common cover thing.
I can barely listen to this song because of the stress on the wrong syllable in Serengeti.
By the way, bumping this because I just came upon the Weezer video for Africa, even though it’s been out for awhile. It’s Weezer’s recording, but the musicians in the video are all stand-ins. Rivers Cuomo is being imitated by Linwood’s favorite son, Weird Al Yankovic.
Africa on a harp.
