"I Can't Be You" by female singer?

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This is going to be hard, because my husband heard this in the supermarket, and I didn’t. He says the lyrics he remembers are as stated, “I can’t be you,” and that it was a female singer, and those lyrics were repeated a lot. Okay, Google!

So I came up with “Why Can’t I Be You” by the Cure, not it. Then there’s one by Gov’t Mule. “I Can’t Be You.”

Now I knew there was no female singer in the Mule, but I played it and he said that… might…be the song. Obviously not the singer. But he’s not sure.

It should be noted he is not the most musical person. When they sang “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf” in the movie of the same name to the wrong tune, he didn’t even notice. When I commented on it, he said, “No, that was the tune I remember. Who’s afraid of the big bad wolf, right?” Wrong. (“Here We Go 'Round the Mulberry Bush.”)

Just saying.

Anybody know if a woman has done a cover of this one?

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“I can’t be with you” by The Cranberries?

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This is a real stretch, as the repeated line is twisted around from what your hubbus thinks he remembers. I offer up Rosanne Cash’s Never Be You from 1985, which I only just now learned is itself a cover of the song done by Maria McKee (in 1983) on the Streets of Fire soundtrack album.

The line in question is “He can never be you.”

At the very least, I’m helping with the process of elimination! :slight_smile:

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Ding ding ding, we have a winner. Roseann Cash.

Thanks!

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You’re welcome!

Man oh MAN, was that ever a shot in the dark, too!