Are you sitting down? Good, because you need to prepare for your mind to be blown right about now.

You know the theme song to Red Dwarf? Apparently it has lyrics. Yes, we know it actually has lyrics, but it's just been revealed there's another, underlying vocal layer that's only now been unearthed.

With Red Dwarf making a triumphant return to TV earlier this year, it's seems about time this hidden gem from our favourite '80s sitcom should be revealed to the world. We mean, it's only been a secret for the last 27 years...

According to a forum on ganymede TV, one eagle-eared Red Dwarf fan noticed that in the second half of the song, composer Howard Goodall was using a vocoder to record extra lyrics this whole time.

The user, named 'Darrell', first noticed these hidden lyrics when re-watching the appropriately-titled season 11 episode 'Can Of Worms', which is what he was about to open up for all Red Dwarf fans everywhere.

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He said: "Although I've heard that piece of music probably thousands of times over 20 years I've only just noticed the vocal parts, namely HOWARD GOODALL SINGING THE NAME OF THE SHOW FOUR TIMES THROUGH A VOCODER."

Yep, that's right. Underneath the lyrics, there's also the theme's composer Howard Goodall singing the line "Red Dwarf" four times in the second half of the song and no-one's noticed it until now.

If you want to listen ­­out for it yourself, it's in the second half of the song during what Darrell describes as the "triangular key changes", and he even shared a stripped down, bassline version of the theme which makes it all the more clearer (the distorted "Red Dwarf" lines come in around the 20 second mark):

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And, proving that Darrell will forever be remembered as the greatest Red Dwarf detective we didn't know we needed, Howard Goodall himself only went and confirmed that everything he said is true.

"I am honoured & delighted my vo-coded message from the past has been cracked," he wrote on Twitter this morning.

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OK, it's official. Howard Goodall is a sneaky genius and the rest of us need to fine-tune our vocoder decoding skills.

Red Dwarf XI continues on Dave

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