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My Evil Twin Lyrics
My evil twin
bad-weather friend
he always want's to start when i want to begin
it scares me so
like i scare myself
with that book of Nostradamas up upon my shelf
playing hangman till the morning light
doing donuts on the neighbors lawn
then sleep all through the day
get up and start again
i can hear some sirens somewhere but i don't know why
My evil twin runs home again
search-lights look for an alibi but i'll be home by then
here he comes again
my evil twin
my friends have seen him hiding underneath my skin
who cut the arm off the voo doo doll
that resembles our republican president from long ago?
i hate to see you leave
because i have grown so greatful for the blame you save me from
(my twin. my twin)
i know he looks like me
hates work like me
and walks like me
he's even got a twin like me
My evil twin
Bad-weather friend
i know someday I'll meet him but i don't know where or when
bad-weather friend
he always want's to start when i want to begin
it scares me so
like i scare myself
with that book of Nostradamas up upon my shelf
doing donuts on the neighbors lawn
then sleep all through the day
get up and start again
i can hear some sirens somewhere but i don't know why
search-lights look for an alibi but i'll be home by then
my evil twin
my friends have seen him hiding underneath my skin
that resembles our republican president from long ago?
i hate to see you leave
because i have grown so greatful for the blame you save me from
i know he looks like me
hates work like me
and walks like me
he's even got a twin like me
Bad-weather friend
i know someday I'll meet him but i don't know where or when
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heheh... reminds me of fight club.
heheh... reminds me of fight club.
"My evil twin / bad-weather friend / he always want's to start when i want to begin" - finding somebody at fault for doing the same thing you do anyways.
the rest just seems to be about finding a scapegoat for something you've done simply because you have no real excuse
'He even has a twin like me' implies that the narrator is also an evil twin...brilliant.
Yeah, I think like NQArbuckle said, it's about finding a scapegoat. Lines like "He always wants to start when I begin" just make me think that he really likes doing whatever "the evil twin" wants him to do.
I don't think there is an evil twin. He probably is the evil twin [hey like in Fight Club!] "My Friends have seen him hiding underneath my skin" He's explaining his evil side, or making a lame excuse. "No! It was my evil twin who did donuts on the neighbors lawn!"
I'd say it's less like Fight Club and closer to Dexter. It seems less seperate, like just his bad side. I like the part with the evil twin running home again, but says "I'll" be home by then. The song seems to focus on them being the same guy, like everyone's saying, but I think it's more about the narrator dissociating his own bad behaviour, and his friends know full well what he's really like, but he's sticking with the "who, me?" sort of innocence for his own sake. It reminds me a lot of something with the character my screenname is from, where instead of reconciling something he did, he flat out denies it to a witness, going "True, he did it, but it just wasn't like him" (it is). I think that line sums up the general meaning of this song as well.
I think some or most of the blame might be his own.