I Just Can't Wait To Be King
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| I Just Can't Wait To Be King | |
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| Length: | 2:51 |
| Written by: | Elton John and Tim Rice |
| Performed by: | Jason Weaver, Laura Williams, and Rowan Atkinson |
| The Lion King | |
| Circle Of Life
I Just Can't Wait To Be King I Just Can't Wait To Be King | |
I Just Can't Wait to be King is an original song written by Elton John and Tim Rice and preformed by Jason Weaver, Laura Williams, and Rowan Atkinson for the first Lion King movie. It appears on The Lion King Original Motion Picture Soundtrack as the second track. The song also appears in The Lion King musical where it is preformed by Geoff Hoyle, Scott Irby-Ranniar, and Kajuana Shuford. Elton John also preforms a version of his own which appears on The Lion King Soundtrack along with the original version.
Lyrics
Simba:
- I'm gonna be a mighty king, so enemies beware!
Zazu:
- 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!
Simba:
- No one saying do this
Zazu:
- Now when I said that--
Nala:
- No one saying be there
Zazu:
- What I meant was--
Simba:
- No one saying stop that
Zazu:
- What you don't realize--
Simba and Nala:
- No one saying see here!
Zazu:
- Now see here!
Simba:
- Free to run around all day
Zazu:
- That's definitely out--
Simba:
- 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!
- 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 and Animals:
- Oh, I just can't wait to be king!
- Oh, I just can't wait to be king!
- Oh, I just can't wait...
- Just can't wait...
- To be king!
