[Silence]
[Arrangement: Quirky art-rock with syncopated drums, distorted guitars, backward sound effects, and theatrical call-and-response vocals]
[Intro]
Turn it around
(Back to front)
Flip it over
(What a stunt!)
[Verse 1]
Read it backward
(Read it twice)
Sometimes truth
(Is hidden advice)
Left is right
(Up is down)
Lost and found
(All around)
Mirror images
(Tell the tale)
Hidden meaning
(Lifts the veil)
[Refrain]
Yzark!
(What does it mean?)
A backward dream
(Yzark!)
Yes, crazy as it may seem
(Bringing rationality to the scene)
If it’s still hazy
(Krazy!)
[Chorus]
Turn it ’round
(You’ll understand)
Look again
(A different plan)
Change your view
(Shift your frame)
It won’t stay
(Quite the same)
[Verse 2]
Question answers
(Test belief)
Sometimes doubt
(Brings relief)
What’s familiar
(May deceive)
Look beneath
(What you perceive)
Patterns hiding
(In plain sight)
Darkness helping
(Frame the light)
[Bridge]
Flip the page
(Change the view)
What’s impossible
(Becomes true)
Turn the compass
(Find your spark)
Sometimes light
(Begins in dark)
[Instrumental]
[Reverse cymbal]
[Backward guitar solo]
[Reverse tape effects]
[Final Chorus]
Turn it ’round
(One more time)
Reason finds
(A hidden rhyme)
What looked tangled
(Starts to flow)
Funny how
(You come to know)
[Final Refrain]
Yzark!
(What does it mean?)
A backward dream
(Yzark!)
Yes, crazy as it may seem
(Bringing rationality to the scene)
If it’s still hazy
(Krazy!)
[Outro]
Read it backward
(One last time)
Sometimes reason
(Hides in rhyme)
From the album “What’s in a Name?“