You Can Only Be You
Air date
21 November 2017 (KOR, Naver TV )
You Can Only Be You , also known as Six Small Wheels is the fourth song featured in The Great Race .
An instrumental lullaby version was created for the digital album, Lullabies .
Lyrics
Ashima:
Every engine that I ever knew
Was at least a little different from the others
And some were very, very different too
Even from their sisters and their brothers
You can only be you
There's nothing else you can possibly do
It's plain to me that you're trying too hard
So instead, just be who you are
Thomas: (spoken) "I don't wanna be me."
Ashima:
You wish you could be faster, bigger, stronger
You wish you could have more than six small wheels
You think if you were just a little longer
You'd have more Railway Show appeal
Thomas : Of course!
Every bit of me is short and stumpy
My funnel and my boiler and my dome
Can't you see my paintwork's old and frumpy?
That's why I'll be the one who's left at home
Why do I have to be me?
Is this what I'm really meant to be?
Break me, shake me, take me all apart
There has to be a better place to start
Ashima:
Every bit of you is neat and tidy
There's nothing that you need to rearrange
If you ask me, you're completely bona-fide
What makes you think there's anything to change?
Thomas:
Why do I have to be me?
Is this what I'm really meant to be?
Ashima:
Calm down, be quiet
You know in your heart
There isn't any other place to start
Thomas: Why do I have to be me?
Ashima: You can only be you
Thomas: Is this what I'm really meant to be?
Ashima: There's nothing else you can do
Thomas: Shake me, break me, take me all apart
And find a better place to start
Ashima:
You don't have to try, just be who you are
And trust your six small wheels to take you far
Characters
Locations
Cast
UK
US
Trivia
When Ashima sings, the lyrics are green, but when Thomas sings, the lyrics are default yellow. This is also the first music video to feature lyrics in a different colour, the second being How Does it Work? .
An instrumental version of the song is heard when Thomas and Ashima first meet.
The song’s lyrics include modified phrasings of the narrator’s original description of Thomas.
Goofs
In two scenes, Annie and Clarabel disappear and then appear with Ashima.
In Other Languages
Language
Title
Brazilian Portuguese
Você é o que é
Czech
Vždycky buď pěkně svůj
German
Du bist immer nur du
Japanese
あなたはあなた
Korean
토마스, 너를 응원해
Latin American Spanish
Solo Puedes Ser Tú
Polish
Ważne by Sobą Być
Russian
Будь самим собой
Spanish
Solo Tú Puedes Ser
Albums
Music Video
You Can Only Be You - Music Video
US Narration
Series 3
Thomas' Anthem
Series 4
Gone Fishing | Don't Judge a Book by Its Cover | Really Useful Engine | The Island Song | Let's Have a Race | Toby
Series 5
Night Train | Percy's Seaside Trip | Come for the Ride | Harold the Helicopter | Donald's Duck | Sir Topham Hatt | Accidents Will Happen | Every Cloud Has a Silver Lining | It's Great to Be an Engine | The Snow Song
Thomas and the Magic Railroad
Shining Time | I Know How the Moon Must Feel | The Locomotion | Some Things Never Leave You | Summer Sunday | The Whistling Song | Girl in Green
Series 6
Boo! Boo! Choo-Choo | Little Engines | Never, Never, Never Give Up | James the Really Splendid Engine | Winter Wonderland | Down by the Docks
Series 7
Five New Engines in the Shed | Troublesome Trucks | The Red Balloon | Salty | The Whistle Song | There Once Was an Engine Who Ran Away
Series 8
Sounds | Engine Roll Call | A World Around You | Emily | Surprises | Determination | Patience | Ode to Gordon
Calling All Engines!
Busy | Trying to Do Things Better | Together | The Dream Song
Series 9
Brave | Day and Night | Party Time | Pride | Every Day's a Special Day on Sodor | Buffer Up and Share | Togetherness
Jack and the Pack
The Work Song | One Friendly Family
Series 10
Doing It Right | Favourite Place | H Is for Harold | Navigation | There's Always Something New | Responsibility | Strength
Series 11
The Narrow Gauge Engines
The Great Discovery
Thomas and James are Racing | There's a Job for Everyone | Where, oh Where Is Thomas? | Thomas, You're the Leader
Hero of the Rails
Go, Go Thomas
Series 13
Roll Along
Misty Island Rescue
Misty Island Rescue
Series 14
All You Need | The Fat Controller
Day of the Diesels
Day of the Diesels
Series 15
Hear the Engines Coming
Blue Mountain Mystery
Working Together | Blue Mountain Mystery
Series 16
Thomas and Percy
King of the Railway
Searching Everywhere | It's Gonna Be a Great Day
Series 17
Hey, Hey Thomas! | On a Journey Today
Tale of the Brave
Monsters Everywhere | Tale of the Brave | Let's Be Brave
Series 18
It's Christmas Time | The Best Friends Express
Thomas' YouTube World Tour
Rules and Regulations | That's What Friends are For
Sodor's Legend of the Lost Treasure
Never Overlook a Little Engine | We Make a Team Together
Series 19
There's Snow Place Like Home | Let's Go! | Race with You | Spring is Here!
The Great Race
Will You Won't You | Streamlining | Full of Surprises | You Can Only Be You | The Shooting Star is Coming Through | Be Who You Are, and Go Far
Series 20
Glynn's Christmas Wish | It's Halloween
Journey Beyond Sodor
Somebody Has to be the Favourite | Who's Thomas? | The Hottest Place in Town | I Want to Go Home | We Can't Do Anything | The Most Important Thing Is Being Friends
Series 21
Set Friendship in Motion
Big World! Big Adventures!
Where in the World Is Thomas? | Wake Up | Enda Ulale | We're Friends | Free and Easy | Sometimes You Make a Friend
Series 22
Big World! Big Adventures! | The Journey Never Ends | All the Girls Around the World | The Steam Team | Let's Dream
Series 23
Legend of the Lost Engine | The Sodor Construction Crew | Don't Stop
Series 24
Party Train | How Does it Work? | Fall is So Much Fun | The Little Engine Who Believed | New Year's Day with Thomas
Nursery Rhymes
Six Little Trains | Percy! | Tunnels, Bridges, Tracks and Hills | The Wheels on the Train | Chuff, Chuff, Chuff Along | If You're Happy and You Know It | Another Day on Sodor | Old McColl's Farm | Hickory Tickory Tock | Pop Goes the Diesel! | Thomas Found a Little Lamb | Twinkle, Twinkle Sodor Sky | My Name is Thomas | Five Little Railway Friends | Happy Birthday to You
Miscellaneous
I'm Thomas the Tank Engine | Thomas' Christmas Song | The Official BBC Children in Need Medley | Kids for Character | Courage | Teamwork | Problem Solving | Responsibility | He's So Brave | Friendship | A Thomas Birthday Wish | A Sodor Summertime | Watch Out, Thomas!
Series 1
I'm Gonna Chug | Secret Agents | Chugga-Chugga Snooze Snooze | Knights of the Turntable | I Sure Am Feeling Lucky | A Partner on the Rails | Music is Everywhere | Chasing Rainbows | The Mail Delivery Song | If I Was a Super Train | Get on the Laugh Track | On My Own | Everyone is Afraid a Little | What Brave Engines Do | Between You and Me | Feet, Tailbone, Ribs and Claws | The Number One Engine | What's Awesome About This Place | Blowing Off Steam | A Gift to Remember | Fall Fun | My Rusty Can | Together We Can | He Should Have Given You Back | Celebrate | Song of Sodor
Race for the Sodor Cup
When I Go Fast | The Training Song | Look It's Us
Series 2
You Can't Stop Me! | Fast to Go Slow | Welcome to Sodor | A Mistake is What it Takes | This Was Unexpected | Stuck in the Mud at Night | Christmas Spirit | Good as New | Plow to Have Fun on the Job | Feel the Hush | The World Has a Mind of its Own | What's Really Real | What I Can Do and What I Can't | Peep Peep, We're Counting Sheep | How to Solve a Mystery | Sandy's Strength | The Sodor Shanty | When You Go to Sea | Blues Buddy | Good Sports | Work Together | Friendship Map | Talking Makes it Better | Take a Closer Look | The Waiting Game | The Sights of Sodor
The Mystery of Lookout Mountain
Warning: Biggest Adventure Ahead | A Whole New Place | Job to Do
The Great Bubbly Build
Focus on the FUNction | Put the Fun in Function
Series 3
Worth Doing Right | Abraca-Diesel | Stuff | Instead | I Wish | Make Things Right | Find a New Way | Building Better for Everyone | Slow It on Down | When the Night Comes on | Quackity Quack | Winter Games | The Smells of Sodor
The Christmas Letter Express
Christmastime on the Rails | A Christmas Wish | Ho-Ho-Hold on Santa Claus!
Series 4
Stay on Track with Yourself | The True You | I'm A-Okay
Miscellaneous
Theme Song | Train School Song