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.

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2006-02-03 10:28:46

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by akagoldfish

19y ago

pretty clearly this is a breakup song. Not just any breakup, but the kind that sends someone already prone to depression into a spin where they start thinking things like “I’ll jump off and take a drive” (I may be reading too much into that line, but not by much). It also has an attempt at optimism in lines like “Just think of what you’ll get when you’re past this,” but hearing the way this line is song, it’s clear that’s more of what she has to tell herself to keep going, rather then what she truly feels. The same goes for the first two lines (“How bad could it be, To be alone for now, To be free”), where she rhetorically asks a question the tone of the song answers. This gives the title line a bitter sarcasm.

A pretty dark song, on a pretty dark album from someone who’s not well known for singing dark songs because she usually sounds happier when she does it and most people don’t catch the lyrics (case in point, This, which sounds upbeat, but according to Lisa Loeb is, roughly, about reassuring a friend she wasn‘t going to kill herself).

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