Johnny Clegg - I Can Never Be (what You Want Me To Be) lyrics

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:

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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:

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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

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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