Johnny Clegg & Savuka

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I Can Never Be

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Page type: lyric reference Artist: Johnny Clegg & Savuka Canonical path: /johnny-clegg-savuka/i-can-never-be Related lyric paths: 6

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I Can Never Be

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Shooting star across my sky

I wanted to keep you in my heaven

I will be anything you want! I said

I will live into your dream just to see you smile

Be my baby -- I'll be your crusade

Your clown-lover, renegade

I'll be anything you want if it will make you stay

-- oh but it could never be that way cause:

Chorus:

I can never be what you want

I can never be what you want me to be

The great pretender inside your head

A king wearing someone else's crown

Sacrificed who I am so that this heart could be fed

I spend so much time keeping myself underground

You know I love you but I am shaking inside

I know I'm not going to leave here alive 'cause:

Chorus:

I can never be what you want

I can never be what you want me to be

I have sailed this impossible ocean

I have sailed this crazy sea

I can never be what you want,

Whatever you want me to be

There is a spirit rising against what I have become

I have to come out and choose to stay our make my run

I'm slowly dying, I have to make a stand

I'm coming home, you'll have to take me for what I am

Chorus

Be? I can never be!

I can never be what you want!

I can never be what you want me to be!

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