CD cover: Eva Cassidy - Imagine
Imagine
1. It Doesn't Matter Anymore 6. Still Not Ready
2. Fever 7. Early Morning Rain
3. Who Knows Where The Time Goes 8. Tennessee Waltz
4. You've Changed 9. I Can Only Be Me
5. Imagine 10. Danny Boy

I Can Only Be Me

(Stevie Wonder)






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Butterflies begin from having been another
As a child is born from being in a mother’s womb
But how many times have you wished you were some other
Someone than who you are

Yet who’s to say that if all were uncovered
You will like what you see
You can only be you as I can only be me

Flowers cannot bloom until it is their season
As we would not be here unless it was our destiny
But how many times have you wished to be in spaces
Time places than what you were

Yet who’s to say with unfamiliar faces
You could anymore be loving you that you’d see
You can only be me as I can only be me

Oh oh oh I can only be me



Tab/Chords
found on I (cd/cas).
l. 1, 'another': Stevie Wonder's original lyrics have 'a larva', which Stuart Lowe retains in his tab for Eva's version, but I have changed this to 'another' as that does appear to be what Eva sings.
l. 4, 10-11: 'other' seems to be missing, but this is apparently also the case in Wonder's original lyrics.
l. 14: 'be me' (first time): this should be 'be you', see original lyrics.
Wonder submitted ICOBM for inclusion on soundtrack for Spike Lee's 'School Daze' (1987). He 'had already performed the song himself live on a television special in 1986'. Wonder has never released ICOBM on record; original lyrics not found at his website.
For School Daze movie see Movies.com.
original: Keith John (School Daze soundtrack, 1987).
covers: none found.
PL - Song by song.
Original tab by Stuart Lowe at Yahoo EC group (MS Word).


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