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.
One meaning of incubation is the stage of the creative process when you completely give up on solving a problem and then if you go back to it later you might forget the way you were trying to solve it before that wasn't working and look at it a different way and get an insight on how to solve the problem.
Maybe, Ian Curtis was trying to write lyrics for this song but then gave up during the creative process. So he
just titled the song "Incubation" using "thebodiesobtained"'s definition.
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does anybody know why it's called incubation?
One meaning of incubation is the stage of the creative process when you completely give up on solving a problem and then if you go back to it later you might forget the way you were trying to solve it before that wasn't working and look at it a different way and get an insight on how to solve the problem.
this song is so ass kickiing, especially the bass guitar and snare drum
Maybe, Ian Curtis was trying to write lyrics for this song but then gave up during the creative process. So he just titled the song "Incubation" using "thebodiesobtained"'s definition.