"The Twist at the End"

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"The Twist at the End" was a "hit song" written in 1967 by Aubrey Waites, David Agnew, and one other.

Its existence in this form was a consequence of the space-time anomaly known as the Unravel; (PROSE: {{esquivalience}} ^[+]Loading...["Esquivalience (novel)","'\"`UNIQ--nowiki-00000002-QINU`\"'"]) another account showed a Twist at the End song with different lyrics as having debuted in 1963 as a joyous aftershock of Maestro's interference in the universe. (TV: The Devil's Chord ^[+]Loading...["The Devil's Chord (TV story)"])

The Twist at the End began to play in the distance within the Inner Reference Room as ______ erased Miltontheus, the Head Dictionary Contributor of the Dead & Dying Languages department of the Multiplicity. One of the possible "twists" it may have signalled was that, although ______'s interference seemed at first glance to be for the worse, it notably resulted in ordinary humans Cory Maythers and Shawn Doltmann having a chance meeting as their life-stories were subtly rewritten, and falling deeply in love to lead long and happy lives together, whereas they would otherwise have gone their whole lives without meeting one another. (PROSE: {{esquivalience}} ^[+]Loading...["Esquivalience (novel)","'\"`UNIQ--nowiki-00000007-QINU`\"'"])

Lyrics

An "extract" from the song's lyrics read:

Good eyes and bad lies
It never really mattered
For we're all grooving
To the words
They scattered

Hammer meets the anvil
In the dead of night
Yet to be broken
By the dancing might

All in all
Our fun shall depend
On getting to that floor
For the twist
At the end

Yeah
It's the twist at the end
Yeah
Let’s do the twist
At the end
Of our night

Shimmy
Now rolling one way
And turning the other
Whatever they might
Say

All in all
Our fun shall depend
On getting to that floor
For the twist
At the end

Yeah
It's the twist at the end
Yeah

Let’s do the twist
At the end
Of our night

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Behind the scenes

The publication of Jamie H. Cowan's {{esquivalience}} ^[+]Loading...["Esquivalience (novel)","'\"`UNIQ--nowiki-0000000F-QINU`\"'"] predated the release of the Doctor Who Season 1 episode The Devil's Chord ^[+]Loading...["The Devil's Chord (TV story)"], which ended on another, almost-identically-titled 1960s song. Although this was not made clear in the episode, DWM 599 noted that the TV song was officially attributed to John Smith and the Common Men — matching the attribution of the prose song to Aubrey Waites, previously established as John Smith's real name.

Both of Aubrey's stage names, Chris Waites and John Smith, were alluded to within The Devil's Chord as easter eggs. Shortly after the TV episode aired, Cowan posted on Twitter to highlight the similarity; he did not comment on whether it was accidental, but stated that his version of (The) Twist at the End constituted "a perfectly valid alternative timeline of the DWU".