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
Jump Down
that the freckles in our eyes
are mirror images
and when we kiss they're perfectly aligned.
And I have to speculate
that God Himself did make
us into corresponding shapes
like puzzle pieces from the clay.
And true it may seem like a stretch
but it's thoughts like this that catch
my troubled head when you're away
and when I am missing you to death.
And when you are out there on the road
for several weeks of shows
and when you scan the radio
I hope this song will guide you home.
they will see us waving