The Double

As a child, I was bitten in the yard by a dead bat And its dead ghost will haunt me all of my days And now I've grown tired of fighting my own image But I can see the works of his hands all over town Well I can see you might say I'm making excuses Hiding all my misdeeds behind a curtain of words But this shadow is as real as I am, perhaps more real And he can take all of the blame for whatever you've heard Well it's hard killing somebody Who wears your own face and a different name But now that you're real and I am not real Maybe you can do all the work and I'll keep the name Well the mirror tells lies I only half believe And truths that I'm slow to understand And in the dark of the night I follow a shadow Down the fluorescent-lighted highway that leads to my home Well it's hard killing somebody Who wears your own face and a different name But now that I find it's him or it's me I can do what I have to do and not feel ashamed