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.
The song starts with 'you love me'. There's also some French stuff in there but they're not lyrics. And there's a chant in the middle where Thom sings 'I love you'. So yeah... it's political. About Blair and Bush.
While this song probably doesn't mean anything, it means something to me.
The phrase "I love you" loses its meaning if it's repeated too often. These days, you find "I love you" printed on greeting cards, premade e-mails, boxes of chocolate, teddy bears...
To me, the mechanical voice programmed to repeat "I love ya" states that "I love you" no longer holds any meaning. It's been turned into little more then a tagline to move product.
The song actually has 'you love me' at the beginning. Then there's the 'i luv ya'. I think--taken within the context of the entire album--this is a genuine love song. Thom did say there are a lot of love songs in "The Eraser", and that people who want to interpret everything he writes as socio-political are just being lazy. It's a common misconception to see everything Radiohead-related as impersonal. It's not. I think this is just a love song. It is for me.
Trearean, I guess anything is possible. At first I associated this song with Dizzee Rascal's I Luv U and Modeselektor's I Love You. But I don't think the meaning Thom intended (if any) is necessarily the same. Why not take it at face value? Sure, sometimes we can say I love you too much and it loses its meaning, but sometimes those are the three words we need to utter in order to say something to someone. It can lose it's meaning but it does mean something sometimes.
YanYan I think has it. I love you should mean something very beautiful and special but the way it's just been colloquially shortened demeans its value.
Hyphnip, I think you're hearing, "Turn the music down."
I listened for it and I thought I heard it, too, but I think it's a guy saying, "Turn the music down."
I know Thom Yorke is way into alot of "IDM"- stuff like Aphex Twin and Autechre- so when I first heard this I thought maybe this was his tribute to the genre and its artists, and the line "I luv ya" is like him saying how much he loves those musicians.
Again, very unlikely but an interesting thought that came to mind.
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The song starts with 'you love me'. There's also some French stuff in there but they're not lyrics. And there's a chant in the middle where Thom sings 'I love you'. So yeah... it's political. About Blair and Bush.
While this song probably doesn't mean anything, it means something to me.
The phrase "I love you" loses its meaning if it's repeated too often. These days, you find "I love you" printed on greeting cards, premade e-mails, boxes of chocolate, teddy bears...
To me, the mechanical voice programmed to repeat "I love ya" states that "I love you" no longer holds any meaning. It's been turned into little more then a tagline to move product.
The song actually has 'you love me' at the beginning. Then there's the 'i luv ya'. I think--taken within the context of the entire album--this is a genuine love song. Thom did say there are a lot of love songs in "The Eraser", and that people who want to interpret everything he writes as socio-political are just being lazy. It's a common misconception to see everything Radiohead-related as impersonal. It's not. I think this is just a love song. It is for me.
Trearean, I guess anything is possible. At first I associated this song with Dizzee Rascal's I Luv U and Modeselektor's I Love You. But I don't think the meaning Thom intended (if any) is necessarily the same. Why not take it at face value? Sure, sometimes we can say I love you too much and it loses its meaning, but sometimes those are the three words we need to utter in order to say something to someone. It can lose it's meaning but it does mean something sometimes.
YanYan I think has it. I love you should mean something very beautiful and special but the way it's just been colloquially shortened demeans its value.
Hyphnip, I think you're hearing, "Turn the music down." I listened for it and I thought I heard it, too, but I think it's a guy saying, "Turn the music down."
it's hard to hear it properly but i think he's saying "certainly a good album" very fast
it's hard to hear it properly but i think he's saying "certainly a good album" very fast
This theory is a real longshot but consider it:
I know Thom Yorke is way into alot of "IDM"- stuff like Aphex Twin and Autechre- so when I first heard this I thought maybe this was his tribute to the genre and its artists, and the line "I luv ya" is like him saying how much he loves those musicians.
Again, very unlikely but an interesting thought that came to mind.
is it just me or does it kind of sound like someone in there says "throw the nigger down" my friend says he can hear it too!