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.
Vaka means awakening in old Norse. The band sing in a made up language comprised of a fusion of English and Icelandic. I think that they do this so that you concentrate more on the sound of the songs than on the lyrics. Also you tend to hear your own words in the lyrics based on your state of mind. The person that posted the original translation must have been feeling pretty low when they wrote what they wrote! To me it sounds as though he's singing 'You shine on us, you shine on all of us' so this song makes me think of the sun. That ties into the awakening theme a little now that I think about it.
I believe you are very right, it is amazing this band indeed, like Tom Waits they as well transform the music this great message in a immense trip to your senses, and there you will be finding yourself as you sing from deep inside even with out noticing..
I believe you are very right, it is amazing this band indeed, like Tom Waits they as well transform the music this great message in a immense trip to your senses, and there you will be finding yourself as you sing from deep inside even with out noticing..
@Vladimirdave lol I thought he was saying (Your sound of love your soul love your sould..... your sound of love your sound is love... your ... .lol first listen to this song in the movie 127 hours
@Vladimirdave lol I thought he was saying (Your sound of love your soul love your sould..... your sound of love your sound is love... your ... .lol first listen to this song in the movie 127 hours
If the end of the world had a theme song, I would pick the destruction part to be "The Great Gig in the Sky" by Pink Floyd, and the aftermath to be this song.
To me, all Sigor Ros' songs pretty much mean the same thing, but it's the right same thing.
It's supposed to be an upgraded kind of "living in the moment." Basically dying and being reborn every second. When I listen to Sigur Ros, it gets me into the same state of mind I get into during a successful meditation.
Of course, they're trying to point to something that can't be explained in words, that's why they don't use lyrics. Any explanation I can through words give will be mediocre at best.
This song (and the other songs on the album) doesn't have any lyrics. At least not the English words that somebody wrote above. It's all just sounds, gibberish, and while a lot of people seem to hear English words, you don't have to. You can just hear the song as it is in itself without bothering with language.
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Vaka means awakening in old Norse. The band sing in a made up language comprised of a fusion of English and Icelandic. I think that they do this so that you concentrate more on the sound of the songs than on the lyrics. Also you tend to hear your own words in the lyrics based on your state of mind. The person that posted the original translation must have been feeling pretty low when they wrote what they wrote! To me it sounds as though he's singing 'You shine on us, you shine on all of us' so this song makes me think of the sun. That ties into the awakening theme a little now that I think about it.
I believe you are very right, it is amazing this band indeed, like Tom Waits they as well transform the music this great message in a immense trip to your senses, and there you will be finding yourself as you sing from deep inside even with out noticing..
I believe you are very right, it is amazing this band indeed, like Tom Waits they as well transform the music this great message in a immense trip to your senses, and there you will be finding yourself as you sing from deep inside even with out noticing..
I agree. Also, to me, it sounds like, "You sat her on the fire." Which is weird, but i go with it.
I agree. Also, to me, it sounds like, "You sat her on the fire." Which is weird, but i go with it.
@Vladimirdave lol I thought he was saying (Your sound of love your soul love your sould..... your sound of love your sound is love... your ... .lol first listen to this song in the movie 127 hours
@Vladimirdave lol I thought he was saying (Your sound of love your soul love your sould..... your sound of love your sound is love... your ... .lol first listen to this song in the movie 127 hours
this song is in hopelandic, Vaka is the name of Orri's daughter.
If the end of the world had a theme song, I would pick the destruction part to be "The Great Gig in the Sky" by Pink Floyd, and the aftermath to be this song.
To me, all Sigor Ros' songs pretty much mean the same thing, but it's the right same thing.
It's supposed to be an upgraded kind of "living in the moment." Basically dying and being reborn every second. When I listen to Sigur Ros, it gets me into the same state of mind I get into during a successful meditation.
Of course, they're trying to point to something that can't be explained in words, that's why they don't use lyrics. Any explanation I can through words give will be mediocre at best.
No perception is mediocre ..
No perception is mediocre ..
This song (and the other songs on the album) doesn't have any lyrics. At least not the English words that somebody wrote above. It's all just sounds, gibberish, and while a lot of people seem to hear English words, you don't have to. You can just hear the song as it is in itself without bothering with language.
A song doesn't need lyrics to have meaning. And searching for something that isn't there will only distract you from what's really there.