Best Imitation Of Myself(Chords)

	        Verse 
              C                   C/B 
I feel like a quote out of context, 
    Am               G        F               G           Am D 
Withholding the rest so I can be for you what you wanna see. 
          C                    C/B     Am 
I got the gesture and sounds,  got the timing down 
G      F                G              Am       D 
It's uncanny, yeah, you'd think it was me. Do you think I should 
G        E7     Am      G        D 
Take a class to lose my southern accent? 
    F         G              F            G 
Did I make me up or make the face that is stuck 
         F       G           C 
I do the best imitation of myself. 

Verse 
    C                      C/B    Am              G 
The 'problem with you' speech you gave me was fine 
            F         G       Am          D 
I liked the theories about my little stage. 
      C                  C/B     Am 
And I swore I was listening till I started drifting 
G          F             G         Am     D 
Around the part about me acting my age.   Now if it's 
G       E7            Am        G    D 
All the same...  I've people to entertain. 
           F          G                F            G 
You know I'll juggle one-handed,  do some magic tricks and 
    F       G         C 
The best imitation of myself. 

Bridge 
E7                    Am 
Maybe I'm thinking myself in a hole... 
E7    Am 
Wondering... 
      F         Am 
Who I am when I oughta know 
           F      Am         E7 
Straighten up now time to go fool somebody else... 
Am        G   D    G  E7 
Fool somebody else.     

Verse 
                 C              C/B    Am         G 
Last night I was east with them... and west within... 
          F               G          Am   D 
Trying to be for you what you wanna see. 
          C                        C/B      Am 
But I can't help it with you,  the good and bad comes through 
G              F                G            Am D 
Don't want you hanging out with no-one but me. 
               G       E7         Am            G      D 
Now that it's all the same... it comes from the same place. 
          F                G 
And if my mind's somewhere else 
             F       G 
You won't be able to tell 
         F       G           C 
I do the best imitation of myself 

Outro 
           F        G 
Yes it's uncanny to see 
             F            G 
You'd really think it was me. 
         F       G      Am     D 
The best imitation of myself... 
         F       G           D 
I do the best imitation of myself.
	        

Written by Ben Folds