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