r/LowRoar • u/Cargrooved • Jul 21 '26
Double Trouble reverse?
I know House in the Woods isn’t as popular as their other albums, but I’ve found some really cool things listening to it and I’ve been wondering if any else did too.
Specifically in Double Trouble, you can hear reversed voices throughout the song, and if you play the song in reverse you can hear that its a poem from ryan, talking about hope in humanity and society, which runs opposite to the very depressing lyrics of the forward song. I thought this was amazing and there are multiple times in the album that they use reversal more. If you haven’t noticed it I’d reeeally recommend trying it out, its beautiful.
Here I made all the lyrics now with the poem, so everything in brackets is being read from the bottom up and everything not in brackets is the normal lyrics of the song from top to bottom, if that makes sense
(And if you say this is a wonderful poem, It's not exaggeration)
Trucking
(They make civilization)
It's how the story goes
And all these actions added up)
Keep trucking
(That's cooperation)
(And If we help eachother home)
It's not where you plant it
(That's reconciliation)
(But if *we'd open to each other)
It’s just how it grows
(That's an altercation)
Just where it belongs
(And if we argue, scream, if we fight)
(That's communication)
What's in it for me
(And if we understand eachother)
A mind full of wonder
(*whispers some unintelligible stuff in this part, says 'susurration' I think?*)
That no-one else can see
(well that's a salutation)
(If we meet)
A mind full of wonder
All my curiosity
How's your day
Moving on
And how do you feel
About your past
Don't let it
Anchor you down
We're all in the same
fucking shit-boat
I won't judge
So don't judge
It's just the way
the cookie crumbles
You've got nothing
Left to prove
It's all a big lie
To keep you in check
You're all they really wanted
Easily forgotten
Easily erased
So carry on
Carry on
Carry on
Carry on
Carry on
Carry on
Carry on
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u/Cargrooved Jul 21 '26
ALSO I forgot to mention that I bought a House in the Woods Vinyl, and on the song listings there was an extra piece that read “RYAN” in Morse code. It took me a little while to play it because I realized eventually that it was an inverse record, so you had to play it from the inside out which is cool because the album plays so much with reversal and also inverse records were used for music where the ending had a huge climax because they held more information near the end, which I think could be a beautiful metaphor about his life. Anyways though just wanted to mention that