Vanishing Twin …

[Toby Roktot]

Vanishing Twin
Toby Roktot


Walking with me……….a shadow in the wind
Smiling eyes ….. my vanishing twin
takes my arm ….. walks through the park
Lovely in the day ….. not so much, after dark
Oh no

Strawberry fields …. the songs are in me
sat on the bench …..wondering, what would be
If John were here…. Would he have something to say
would we listen …. Or tell him to just….go away
Go away

she sang,
I’m not sorry ….it was me
music mom played was lost on me
Through you ……. I can see
All you need is love
Yeah…….


Many years later, still love the songs
We love walking …in the park
Looks crazy. Talking to myself
We share. …like before….in the dark

The warm dark

[rone rivendale]

Vanishing Twin by Rone Rivendale

Come one come all
Look what I have
This poor guy looks just like me

With a wave of
My magic wand
My twin will disappear

For only a dollar come through the curtain
I got many tricks and treats for you in store

Come one come all
It's plain to see
No smoke or mirrors just another me

Abra cadabra
The magical words
And he's gone back to the shadows

For only a dollar come through the curtain
I got many tricks and treat for you in store x2

[WreckdoMelle]

Vanishing Twin - Brown Word and the Big Whine

When I was a girl
I looked into the mirror
Studying the other girl inside

And I had a little shadow
Always running with
I could never run away from her

What's it like to have a twin
They say that I ate mine
Somewhere in the womb they said
Two hearts becoming one

I'm long into my life now
And the question does remain
What part of me she made

Was it my gall or my guts
Was it my spine or my spleen
Was it the tickle in my brain

What's it like to have a twin
They say that I ate mine
Somewhere in the womb they said
Two hearts becoming one

Vanishing twin

[AbCred]

Vanishing Twin - John Gillespie


Wasn’t me who tore the meat from the gosling
Wasn’t me who took a coin from the offering
Wasn’t me who stole the show
I could never nail that baritone
No, the master of these sins
Is my vanishing twin
Emerging from within and imbuing me

You can find him sniffing round on the often
He’s the one who built the walls round the garden
He might take you out in tow
Catch your eye but then not let it go
I should introduce him!
It’s my vanishing twin
Emerging from within and imbuing me

Oh to be family
Fit and free
Close enough for me

Oh to be family
Close to me
Close enough to be me

[lichenthroat]

Vanishing Twin
Lichen Throat

I’ve got a flat in London on a dark, narrow street.
A big ugly guy with an evil eye
Lives in there with me.
He’s not there when I am, and I’m never out with him.
We’re night and day, like bright and grey,
A word and its antonym.
He forgets all about me, and I just leave him alone.
I try not to heed all his evil deeds,
So I don’t have to atone.

Vanishing twin, my vanishing twin,
Trapped inside my skin.
Vanishing twin, my vanishing twin,
Here we go again.

I brewed myself a serum to purge my evil thoughts.
I can drink it down, go out on the town,
As everything I’m not.
Then when I’m in my study, I can toil for the common good.
No distractions around, no sorrow to drown;
I can work hard like I should.
But last night I transformed, without a single sip.
I don’t know what I did, but I can’t get rid
Of a sense I’m starting to slip.

Vanishing twin, my vanishing twin,
Trapped inside my skin.
Vanishing twin, my vanishing twin,
I can’t give in to him.

I’ve come out on top; now there’s no need to hide. (Hyde!)
I’ll threaten and taunt; I’ll take what I want
And leave the city horrified.
I have a heart of cold iron, and I have the soul of a beast.
You’re weak and you’re flawed. Take your queen and your God,
And bow to what you’ve unleashed.

Vanishing twin, my vanishing twin,
Trapped inside my skin.
Vanishing twin, my vanishing twin,
We’ll never see you again.

[MellyP]

Vanishing Twin – The Mellfire Trifecta

I like conspiracy theories
Chipping at the truth
Helps me hook my believers
The otherwise aloof

Sometimes it’s too easy
To usher new ones in
With so many disheartened
The fellowship of the dim

Join me up at the mic
You are with me
Equal partners
No more vanishing twin
That was then
Today we don’t falter

Think it’s time to get smaller
It’s starting to heat up
Quick, find a worthy distraction
While I fill my cup

You could be the new saviour
I know you’ve got the stuff
Just step up into the spotlight
I’ll be there soon enough

Look away
Never you mind
Never you mind
I’m going my way

People think
I’ve got a plan
But it’s a whim
I’m going my way

Join me up at the mic
You are with me
Equal partners
No more vanishing twin
That was then
Today we don’t falter

[Duncan]

Vanishing Twin
Duncan Martin

C#m D A E A
My vanishing twin must have blown away in the wind before the august rain set in
C#m D A E A
Hope she found some fertile ground where the trees were thin and her new life could begin
F#m E D A
Fortune leads the milkweed seeds
F#m E D
Floating out upon the breeze
D E F#m
Concrete cracks and panes of broken glass
Bm A E
Goldenrod and half dead clumps of grass

C#m D A E A
A chrysalis forms like a licorice twist underneath a leaf like a Georgia T O’keefe
C#m D A E A
His vanishing twin on a different limb of the specimen, their weeks together brief
F#m E D A
Time to fly on down to Mexico
F#m E D
Beat the rain and hail and sleet and snow
D E F#m
Negotiate the currents on your powdered wings
Bm A E
You come back when the robin sings

C#m D A E A
They say it’s Müllerian mimicry of the viceroy, taking predators for fools
C#m D A E A
Brandishing wings like neighbouring kings or fraternal twins, an evolutionary tool
F#m E D A
The monarch takes its cues and pays its dues
F#m E D
Doesn’t have a moment left to lose
D E F#m
Fighting ‘gainst the droughts and floods and hunger pangs
Bm A E
Broken homes and flocks of grossbeak gangs

[Geoff WreckdoM]

Vanishing Twin
by WreckdoM

Everything I saw in my dream last night
Would have been terrifying if it wasn't ironic.
Everything you saw in your dream last night
Only symbolizes your worst characteristics.
Every step I take is being recorded
by distant relatives that I have never met.
Every drop of blood you lose and can't account for
Is being collected in secret vats
Everywhere I go, every town I see
Strangers grab me asking where I've been
I have a job, I'm missed by friends,
Worried that I'll never be seen again.
Vanishing Twin
Fa la la, anxious
Vanishing Twin
Ho ho ho, hate
Vanishing Twin
Fa la la, anxious
Vanishing Twin
Ho ho ho, hate
Everything I saw in my dream last night
Would be ash in my mouth if it was prophetic
Everything you did in your dream last night
Was a crime against nature and will be punished
Everywhere I go, every town I see
Strangers grab me asking where I've been
I have a job, I'm missed by friends,
Worried that I'll never be seen again.
Vanishing Twin
Everywhere I go, every town I see
Fa la la, anxious
Vanishing Twin
Strangers grab me asking where I've been
Ho ho ho, hate
Vanishing Twin
I have a job, I'm missed by friends,
Fa la la, anxious
Vanishing Twin
Worried that I'll never be seen again.
Ho ho ho, hate

[shoehornTC]

Vanishing Twin - ShoehornTC

Crash into your couch, I don’t think I can find my way back home.
Turn some music on, and slowly we’ll unwind and get more stoned.

(Cause I’m your) vanishing twin and you don’t know where I’ve been.
You win again and you celebrate every time you win.

Ease into the day, I don’t think I can figure what to do.
Turn some music on, and slowly I’ll unwind and think of you.

(Cause I’m your) vanishing twin and you don’t know where I’ve been.
You win again and we’ll celebrate every time you win.
Vanishing twin and you don’t know where, don’t know where I’ve been.

See you in a while, I’d rather not sit here all alone.
We’ll turn some music on, and slowly we’ll unwind and get more stoned.

(Cause I’m your) vanishing twin and you don’t know where I’ve been.
You win again and you’ll celebrate your win.
Vanishing twin and you don’t know where, don’t know where I’ve been.
yah you don’t know where, you don’t know where I’ve been.

[king_arthur]

Look up at the night sky
Turn in a northern direction
Pick out the Big Dipper
It's a well known constellation

Second star in the handle
Turns out it's actually two
If you can make out both of them
Well, good for you

It's an ancient Arabian eye test
If you can see both lights you win
Not so much when they're blurring together
Like a vanishing twin

Prince prints most of his lyrics
In a tiny purple font
On a deep black background
Which is not what you want
If you want to be readable

But if you want to be cool
It's a useful strategy
It's an effective tool

It's the modern Minneapolis eye test
Can you read it while the music spins?
Or do the words just squish together
Like vanishing twins

Mizar and Alcor
Floating in distant skies
If you're thinking it's one light
That's just a trick of your eyes

It's an ancient Arabian eye test
If you can see both lights you win.
Not so much when they're blurring together
Like a vanishing twin.

[adamrabin]

VANISHING TWIN - Adam Rabin

Say goodbye
To the Vanishing Twin
Off he flies
From the cavern within
Say goodbye


Like a bat waits
For the time
In the cool shade
Til it’s time

Then the sunlight disappears
With the evensong
When the daylight reappears
He will be long gone

Say goodbye
To the Vanishing Twin
You lost the side
That never let you win
Say goodbye

Once familiar
Now estranged
Once he filled your
Head with rage

Now he’s left into the dawn
Gone out on his own
Carrying your secret on,
On to parts unknown


Say goodbye
Say goodbye

Say goodbye
To the one you knew
Who always tried
To be more like you

More like you
Who always tried
To be more like you

Say goodbye
To the Vanishing Twin
Off he flies
From the cavern within
Say goodbye

[mholland]

The lyrics for this song were based on the the myth of Daphne and Apollo. And "vanished twin" fit the story and the lyric better than "vanishing twin," so we took some license with that.

Vanishing Twin - Night Sky

Daphne in the sun
Sang a song for no one
But herself to enjoy

Daphne Daphne soft and free

Her mind was on the hydrosphere
And other matters dear to her
She saved no time to fear the boy
The creeping wolf by her garden door

Daphne was as she had always been
A dreamer a singer a swimmer a friend
A woman soft and free
A thinker a seeker an engineer

Daphne in the lake
Bathing for her own sake
Diana by her side

Daphne Daphne soft and free

Diana to her charge delivered
Wisdom and a golden quiver
You either fight or you run away
You are the predator or the prey

Daphne was as she had always been
A dreamer a singer a swimmer a friend
A woman soft and free
A thinker a seeker an engineer

Daphne on the run
Hunted by the god of sun
Nowhere to hide all alone

Daphne Daphne swift and strong

There is another way for me
I will become a plain bay tree
Daphne stepped out of her skin
Left herself behind like a vanished twin

Daphne as though she’d never been
A dreamer a singer a swimmer a friend
A woman soft and free
A thinker a seeker an engineer

Daphne Daphne where have you gone?
Daphne Daphne why have you gone?

[Smalltown Mike]

Vanishing Twin, by shrts

You say we’re coming from the same place,
cut from the same cloth,
swimming in the same broth.

You think you’re something
because you’re better than me,
just because you’re better me.

What makes you think that I would stick around?
You always bring me down.
Yeah, you’re clowning.

You think you’re something
because you’re better than me,
just because you’re better me.

Take a look at me
but do it quickly.
Yea, I think you know
that it’s time for me to go.

You think you’re something
because you’re much better than me,
just because you’re better me.

[Gil Sans]

Vanishing Twin.
(J. Bennett)

How could I ever lose you?
I wanna find you again.
Oh, where'd you go, my vanishing twin?

No I'm screaming in the basement!
And I don't know what about!

Maybe you're in the cushions of the couch....
Vanishing twin!