The Never Ending Jukebox, track two.

The above made me tempted to put in Adventures in a Yorkshire Landscape and maybe I will, later. But yesterday afternoon, I was being driven a mile and a half high on the eponymous upland area itself, listening to this on a great quality car stereo and it just seemed so right


Perhaps, could have a whole jukebox section on music that reminds us of places or particular Bournemouth matches. Perhaps, I even just started it off...
 
OK, I got through 55 pages of the previous thread without mentioning my obsession with Ben Folds and The Ben Folds Five.

Singer songwriter who hits the spot with me when it comes to lyrics.

His first album is one of a very few that stopped me dead in my tracks when I heard it; I played it on repeat for days and it's still a 'go to' album years later.




Best Imitation of Myself
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 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 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

Big fan of Ben Folds and BFF.
Song lyrics range from deepest of the deep...Selfless Cold and Composed, Evaporated, and my personal fav, Landed...to hilariously petty, Song for the Dumped.
Great music!
 

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