Best Imitation of Myself (Demo, 1992) - Ben Folds

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

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 want to see

But I can't help it with you the good and bad comes through

Hanging out with no one but me

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