15 December 04
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’d think it was me.
Do you think I should take a class to lose my southern accent?
…
Right after those lines of the live version of Ben Folds’ Best Imitation of Myself, some girl in the audience yells out “No!” without any hesitation. This is my favorite moment of the whole live recording. The girl yells it out in a “I know that was a rhetorical question, but I believe so completely in my answer that I have to just scream the answer out so everyone hears” sort of way. This simple evidence of love/acceptance is enough to make a my day brighter, wamer, happier. But I wish my thought wasn’t so uncontrollably visual — whenever I listen to this song, I have a hard time focusing on the (literal) road ahead.