Fix what’s wrong, but don’t rewrite what the artist wrote. Stick to the official released version — album booklet, label site, verified lyric video, etc. If you’re guessing, pause and double-check.

Respect the structure

Songs have rhythm. Pages do too. Leave line breaks where they belong. Don’t smash things together or add extra empty space just for looks.

Punctuation counts (but vibe-editing doesn’t)

Correct typos? Yes. Re-punctuating a whole verse because it ‘looks better’? Probably not. Keep capitalization and punctuation close to the official source.

Don’t mix versions

If you’re editing the explicit version, keep it explicit. If it’s the clean version, keep it clean. No mashups.

Let the lyrics be lyrics

This isn’t the place for interpretations, memories, stories, or trivia — that’s what comments are for. Keep metadata, translations, and bracketed stage directions out unless they’re officially part of the song.

Edit lightly

If two lines are wrong… fix the two lines. No need to bulldoze the whole page. Think ‘surgical,’ not ‘remix.’

When in doubt, ask the crowd

Not sure what they’re singing in that fuzzy bridge? Drop a question in the comments and let the music nerds swarm. Someone always knows.

mason186

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2002-08-22 02:49:56

22 Meanings

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by CockaCola

22y ago

maybe his dad was a blue cadet, and they were talking on a radio, and he couldnt hear his dad so we was going "BLUE CADET DO YOU CONNECT?" for like an hour, and then someone shot his dads radio and tahts the last thing he heard from his dad. And then he wrote float on

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by sonicmariolink 17y ago

lawl

by modestlybrighteyes 17y ago

you do realize that this was literally one of the first songs he ever wrote, and float on was one of the most recent....sad sappy sucker was supposed to be his first album ever released

by jesusisaterrorist 15y ago

or maybe issac is an alien!!!! yea that sounds cool! and hes trapped in jail on earth and cant make it home for autumn on planet x......dumbfuck cock lol

by Alfonzoyo

18y ago

I don't think that anyone but Issac or the rest of modest mouse knows what this song is about it could be anything, or whatever you want it to be. Thats the best part of some music, when it means something different to you, and in that sense it kind of becomes unique to the listener. Maybe Issac thought all these songs sucked to much to be the debut album and all the short songs are really just unfinished. One of my all time favorite albums, and i love his innocence and youth in it. Now he just seems angry at the world.

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by Suhmer

15y ago

Well there is a long silence (half a minute long) at the end of the song, so that must mean that all connection is lost. Which really leaves a sad message, that the person is definitely gone.

It could mean that he had just lost someone in his life, he was trying to contact them but the person won't talk to him or that the person was dead and he could, again, no longer contact them.

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by script kiddie

21y ago

it appears to be a message to a person who can discern language as absolute code. but i believe blue cadet 3 is the sender rather than the receiver of the message do you connect.

like a call on a marine radio when you identify yourself first, then say what you want..