With my clone
Now standing here beside me
Not alone
He's been here since this morning

Without him
I'd only be a single
A solitary loner with no one
With whom to mingle

In the lab, the fixtures gleaming stainless
All the lights, fluorescent on the ceiling
Pyrex beakers, glass tubing filled with stem cells
And soon to be is me and me forever and forever

This I know, I did it with my mind
When I multiply myself and decant him
The Nobel prize I may never find
Still I know it's the way for us

I cloned him
And when the task was over
He is me
We have myself in common

Making more
The technique always changes
I try new ways and gamma rays
And fill the world with strangers

I love me
And every day I'm learning
Making life
The old ways I've been spurning

Without me
My world would stop its turning
A world devoid of replicants
Alike in skin and bone

I am him
He is me
We are we
He started as a clone