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.
Chinosoma, you are talking about Deus ex Machina ... which btw is Latin and usually interpreted "god from the machine" or "god on the machine". Le Deux Machina is not that - "les deux" in french means "the two" or "both", could Billy just have forgotten an "s"..?
Remember the part of Glass and the Ghost Children, where you hear a person talking and a piano playing? Le Deux Machina is the synth version of the piano.
Pronounced Le Deux Mach(like mach 5) ina.. not machine-a like most think it is.. same with the album.. The Le Deux Machina is an actual thing.. it was used in ancient greek plays as a sort of climax to the play when they couldn't wrap up all the questions.. and give a proper resolution.. so they used this crane (don't think modern. think rope and like a pulley system) and dropped an actor from the "heavens" who would portray Zeus or another feeble greek god to solve the conflict. Played off their prayers to the gods to always help them so they used it in the play to help.. in this matter the crowd could relate (not so much nowadays) so it worked well.. This early special fx. was the writers easy way of hiding the fact that they couldn't manage a proper ending in the rush to write the play. So the crowd didn't notice due to the oohs and ahhs.. of a contraption that was virtually new and unheard of.. In close to modern times it can be seen as inspiration to the contraptions people use in movies and the like to make actors fly, etc.. Well anyways thats what Le Deux Machina is.. so now you know what billy was thinking.. kinda..
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Chinosoma, you are talking about Deus ex Machina ... which btw is Latin and usually interpreted "god from the machine" or "god on the machine". Le Deux Machina is not that - "les deux" in french means "the two" or "both", could Billy just have forgotten an "s"..?
This song is from Machina 2...
Remember the part of Glass and the Ghost Children, where you hear a person talking and a piano playing? Le Deux Machina is the synth version of the piano.
Pronounced Le Deux Mach(like mach 5) ina.. not machine-a like most think it is.. same with the album.. The Le Deux Machina is an actual thing.. it was used in ancient greek plays as a sort of climax to the play when they couldn't wrap up all the questions.. and give a proper resolution.. so they used this crane (don't think modern. think rope and like a pulley system) and dropped an actor from the "heavens" who would portray Zeus or another feeble greek god to solve the conflict. Played off their prayers to the gods to always help them so they used it in the play to help.. in this matter the crowd could relate (not so much nowadays) so it worked well.. This early special fx. was the writers easy way of hiding the fact that they couldn't manage a proper ending in the rush to write the play. So the crowd didn't notice due to the oohs and ahhs.. of a contraption that was virtually new and unheard of.. In close to modern times it can be seen as inspiration to the contraptions people use in movies and the like to make actors fly, etc.. Well anyways thats what Le Deux Machina is.. so now you know what billy was thinking.. kinda..
My friend told me this was about gay sex in a dark room. I don't see why he said that.