mmm.. ooh... the bartender poured us both the same drink without asking a name he looked from me... to the man beside me... and shrugged "close enough." he laughed exactly when i laughed lit his cigarette from mine he wore tomorrow's wrinkles like he'd borrowed them from time i've spent my whole life trying to become somebody then somebody became me oh, doppelgänger which one of us goes home tonight? you're wearing every secret i buried out of sight oh, doppelgänger don't smile like you know me that well if you're the better version... why am i still here? he knew my favorite record before it touched the turntable finished every sentence with uncomfortable precision the waitress asked, "are you brothers?" he answered, "something worse." they say everyone has another face somewhere in the world... mine ordered another drink. oh, doppelgänger you steal the room without a sound every stranger trusts you while i'm fading in the crowd oh, doppelgänger you wear my shadow like a suit if i disappear tomorrow... will anybody notice you aren't me? when the lights came back on there was only one glass one coat one set of footprints walking into the rain the bartender smiled and slid the bill toward me "your friend already paid." i never told him... i came alone. oh, doppelgänger leave a little of me behind don't take every memory that i haven't had the chance to find oh, doppelgänger if we're reflections in the same cracked pane i hope the world remembers which one forgot the other's name. ...or maybe it never mattered.
