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
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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 out with the lyric, "I'm a broken soul. I'm an open book with many torn out pages." The writer is starting out by saying he's someone who's torn and has many parts about him that he doesn't like or wants to rip out of him. The first lyric goes on to say he's searching for a way to let go of his mistakes and find something meaningful out of life, but he continues to come back to the bad parts.
The chorus then says, "Turn our eyes away, turn our eyes away from this path we've taken, washing clean our faces. Turn our eyes away, turn our eyes away, leaning on the hope that one day even we will be saved." This is the writer's way of saying that he needs to turn away from these bad parts, and then maybe through doing so he will be saved from them.
He goes on to say that he wants to surrender from this constant battle, but he won't do that because he knows it's too important. He says that it's a choice that everyone has to make. Whether to fight everyday to be a good person or to let the bad parts and mistakes overtake you. The Chorus then repeats until the end of the song.
This song is addressing the light and dark parts of our humanity. He's trying to tell everyone that we have to fight to keep ourselves from submitting to the dark parts and places within ourselves. One day we will be saved from those parts, but for now we have to fight and keep our hope alive.
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The song starts out with the lyric, "I'm a broken soul. I'm an open book with many torn out pages." The writer is starting out by saying he's someone who's torn and has many parts about him that he doesn't like or wants to rip out of him. The first lyric goes on to say he's searching for a way to let go of his mistakes and find something meaningful out of life, but he continues to come back to the bad parts. The chorus then says, "Turn our eyes away, turn our eyes away from this path we've taken, washing clean our faces. Turn our eyes away, turn our eyes away, leaning on the hope that one day even we will be saved." This is the writer's way of saying that he needs to turn away from these bad parts, and then maybe through doing so he will be saved from them. He goes on to say that he wants to surrender from this constant battle, but he won't do that because he knows it's too important. He says that it's a choice that everyone has to make. Whether to fight everyday to be a good person or to let the bad parts and mistakes overtake you. The Chorus then repeats until the end of the song. This song is addressing the light and dark parts of our humanity. He's trying to tell everyone that we have to fight to keep ourselves from submitting to the dark parts and places within ourselves. One day we will be saved from those parts, but for now we have to fight and keep our hope alive.