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.
This is one of my favorite Low songs. So chill, yet brooding, like a prologue to a very important moment. The song's simplicity lends itself to a vast possibility of meanings, but I'd like to use it to describe a situation we might all find ourselves in. There's somebody that you have strong feelings for, and the days go by until one night there's a social gathering that you know she/he will be at. You have it all planned out in your head, the things you'll say, the timing of your words once and for all. But then you find yourself too nervous or too hesitant to make a move, and the night ends, unfulfilled. It's always up until when the opportunity is right in our faces that we pass time thinking about the past and analyzing all of our memories, shaping them to how we want.
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This is one of my favorite Low songs. So chill, yet brooding, like a prologue to a very important moment. The song's simplicity lends itself to a vast possibility of meanings, but I'd like to use it to describe a situation we might all find ourselves in. There's somebody that you have strong feelings for, and the days go by until one night there's a social gathering that you know she/he will be at. You have it all planned out in your head, the things you'll say, the timing of your words once and for all. But then you find yourself too nervous or too hesitant to make a move, and the night ends, unfulfilled. It's always up until when the opportunity is right in our faces that we pass time thinking about the past and analyzing all of our memories, shaping them to how we want.