Ben Folds Five - Best Imitation Of Myself Lyrics

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I feel like a quote out of context
Withholding the rest
So I can be for you what you want to see
I got the gesture and sounds
Got the timing down
It's uncanny, yeah, you think it was me
Do you think I should take a class
To lose my southern accent
Did I make me up, or make the face till it stuck
I do the best imitation of myself
The problem with you speech
You gave me was fine
I liked the theories about my little stage
And I swore I was listening
But I started drifting
around the part about me acting my age 
now if it's all the same 
i've people to entertain 
you know i juggle one handed 
do some magic tricks and 
the best imitation of myself 

maybe i'm thinking myself in a hole, wondering 
who i am when i ought to know 
straighten up now time to go 
fool somebody else 
fool somebody else 

last night i was east with them and west within 
trying to be for you what you wanna see 
but i can't help it with you 
the good and bad comes through 
don't want you hanging out with no one but me 
now if it's all the same 
it comes from the same place 
and if my mind's somewhere else 
you won't be able to tell 
i do the best imitation of myself 

yes it's uncanny to see 
you'd really think it was me 
the best imitation of myself 
the best imitation of myself

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lyrics submitted by Magenta
lyrics corrected by shannon on 18-10-2004