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Artist: O Rei Leão (The Lion King)
Canonical path: /o-rei-leao/i-just-can-t-wait-to-be-king
Related lyric paths: 6
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I Just Can't Wait To Be King
Read I Just Can't Wait To Be King lyrics by O Rei Leão (The Lion King) on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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I Just Can't Wait To Be King
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[Simba]
I'm gonna be a mighty king
So enemies, beware
[Zazu]
Well, I've never seen a king of beasts
With quite so little hair
[Simba]
I'm gonna be the main event
Like no king was before
I'm brushing up on looking down
I'm working on my roar!
[Zazu]
Thus far, a rather uninspiring thing
[Simba]
Oh, I just can't wait to be king!
[Zazu]
You have rather a long way to go
Young master, if you think
[Simba & Zazu]
No one saying: Do this
(Now when I said that, I)
[Nala & Zazu]
No one saying: Be there
(What I meant was)
[Simba & Zazu]
No one saying: Stop that
(Look, what you don't realize)
[Simba, Nala & Zazu]
No one saying: See here
(Now see here!)
[Simba & Zazu]
Free to run around all day
(Well, that's definitely out)
Free to do it all my way!
[Zazu]
I think it's time that you and I
Arranged a heart to heart
[Simba]
Kings don't need advice
From little hornbills for a start
[Zazu]
If this is where the monarchy is headed
Count me out!
Out of service, out of Africa
I wouldn't hang about
This child is getting wildly out of wing
[Simba]
Oh, I just can't wait to be king!
[Simba]
Everybody look left
Everybody look right
Everywhere you look I'm
Standing in the spotlight!
[Zazu]
Not yet!
[Animals]
Let every creature go for broke and sing
Let's hear it in the herd and on the wing
It's gonna be King Simba's finest fling
[Simba]
Oh, I just can't wait to be king!
Oh, I just can't wait to be king!
Oh, I just can't wait to be king!
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