I Can Never Be Lyrics - Johnny Clegg & Savuka

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 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 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 or 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 

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Be, I can never be 

I can never be what you want 

I can never be what you want me to be