In This Shirt - The Irrepressibles
but in this shirt, I can be you,
to be near you for a while.
My solo song from this year
“Best Imitation Of Myself” by Ben Folds. Live recording.
I feel like a quote out of context,
Withholding the rest,
So I can be for you what you want to see…
I’ve got the gesture and sound,
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. (!!!)
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!
Yeah, but 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…!
Brick - Ben Folds Five
“She’s a brick and I’m drowning slowly
Off the coast and I’m headed nowhere
She’s a brick and I’m drowning slowly”
