Never Be Yours (song)

### From

"**Never Be Yours**" (stylized in sentence case as "**Never be yours**") is the 8th track featured on Kali Uchis' debut mixtape, *Drunken Babble*.

## Background

A demo leaked online on May 19, 2017. It contains slightly differences in the instrumental.

## Official versions

* Mixtape version — 3:13
* Demo version 2 — 3:11

## Live performances

Kali performed the song on May 14, 2014, after her interview with Intuition on the podcast Kinda Neat. The video was uploaded on YouTube and reached 17 million views. She also performed the song recently on her New Year's Live Event on January 1, 2022

KALI UCHIS - NEVER BE YOURSKali Uchis - Never be yours (Live at Tik Tok New Years Event)
## Lyrics

* Mixtape version
* Live perfomances

Left, right, left, right

Get that all night

Get it right

Get it right

New chain, you changed

Here's your receipt

Get it right

Get it right

Hello Kitty why the long face?

You keep on standing, standing, standing in the same place

New coupons, riding in the Chevrolet with big bass

You're deep on talkin, talkin' 'bout how we all lack taste

Beamer, Bentley

Make me, spend me

New chain, you changed

Here's your receipt

Bring me down, tear me up

Take my very last buck

Go to class, kiss my ass

It'll bring you good luck

Brighten up, lighten up

What is it they're fighting for?

Slow it down, speed it up

Here's the cake they're biting for

I'm not gonna be yours right now

Cause I'll never be yours no how

I'm not gonna be yours right now

Cause I'll never be yours no how

Cause I'll never be yours...

Hello Kitty why the long face?

You keep on standing, standing, standing in the same place

New coupons riding in the Chevrolet with big bass

You're deep on talking, talking,'bout how we all lack taste

Beamer, Bentley

Make me, spend me

New chain, you changed

Here's your receipt

Bring me down, tear me up

Take my very last buck

Go to class, kiss my ass

It'll bring you good luck

Brighten up, lighten up

What is it they're fighting for?

Slow it down, speed it up

Here's the cake they're biting for

I'm not gonna be yours right now

Cause I'll never be yours no how

I'm not gonna be yours right now

Cause I'll never be yours no how

Cause I'll never be yours...

Biting for

Biting for

Biting for

Biting for

Biting for

Left, right, left, right

Get that all night

Get it right, get it right

New chain, you changed

Here's your receipt

Get it right, get it right

Hello Kitty why the long face?

You keep on standing, standing, standing in the same place

New coupons riding in the Chevrolet with big bass

You're deep on talking, talking 'bout how we all lack taste

Beemer, Bentley

Make me, spend me

New chain, you changed

Here's your receipt

Br-br-br-bring me down, tear me up

Take my very last buck

Go to class, kiss my ass

It'll bring you good luck

Br-brighten up, lighten up

What is it they're fighting for?

Slow it down, speed it up

Here's the cake they're biting for

I'm not gonna be yours right now

Cause I'll never be yours no how

I'm not gonna be yours right now

Cause I'll never be yours no how

Cause I'll never be yours...

Hello Kitty why the long face?

You keep on standing, standing, standing in the same place

New coupons riding in the Chevrolet with big bass

You're deep on talking, talking, 'bout how we all lack taste

Beemer, Bentley

Make me, spend me

New chain, you changed

Here's your receipt

Br-br-br-bring me down, tear me up

Take my very last buck

Go to class, kiss my ass

It'll bring you good luck

Br-brighten up, lighten up

What is it they're fighting for?

Slow it down, speed it up

Here's the cake they're biting for

Biting for

Biting for

Biting for

Biting for

Biting for

## Trivia

* This song samples the track *"Oh, Honey"* by British soul group, Delegation. The sample was later reused in her 2015 single "Lottery".
* This song together with "Table For Two" and "What They Say" were the only ones from the mixtape that Kali sang live.