Ben Folds Five - Best Imitation Of Myself

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 gestures and sounds
got the timing down
it's uncanny, yeah
you'd 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 'til 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
and now if it's all the same
I've people to entertain
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 want to 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
do the best imitation of myself


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 gestures and sounds
got the timing down
it's uncanny, yeah
you'd 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 'til 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
and now if it's all the same
I've people to entertain
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 want to 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
do the best imitation of myself


Ben Folds Five "Best Imitation Of Myself " Live 1997

Ben Folds Five plays "Best Imitation of Myself " live in Chicago on April 24,1997. I believe one of the only full band live videos of this song out there.

Ben Folds - The Best Imitation Of Myself: A Retrospective EPK

Music video by Ben Folds performing The Best Imitation Of Myself: A Retrospective EPK. (C) 2011 Sony Music Entertainment.

Ben Folds Five - Best Imitation Of Myself (with lyrics) - HD

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Ben Folds - Best Imitation of Myself (Solo Live)

Ben Folds - Best Imitation of Myself (Solo Live) great live performance of Best Imitation of Myself recorded at Vic Theatre, Chicago 28 June 2002.

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