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.
This instrumental bridge is crucial to introducing the softer, more relaxed themes that will appear on side 2, providing relief from the fast pace we have witnessed so far.
Magicians -- in Eno's lexicon -- are scientists. Energy is the driving force of the universe -- matter is energy, energy is matter, etc. The scientific observer is fooled by appearances into believing himself a limited entity, when he is in fact part and parcel of Infinity. I think this song is a worldess painting of the allure of Science to humanity. This song fades out into "King's Lead Hat," where we will hear all about the pinnacle of glory and absurdity in Scientific thought.
(An aside: many songs on "Before and After Science" are introduced through fade-ins, and most songs end by fading out. This technique seems to imply endlessness; the songs are cyclic at core, like video game BGM. Eno is presenting us with snapshots of human history -- each song is a fragment of The Long Now, it seems, and he fades us out and in to avoid severing the internal continuity of each Moment).
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This instrumental bridge is crucial to introducing the softer, more relaxed themes that will appear on side 2, providing relief from the fast pace we have witnessed so far.
Magicians -- in Eno's lexicon -- are scientists. Energy is the driving force of the universe -- matter is energy, energy is matter, etc. The scientific observer is fooled by appearances into believing himself a limited entity, when he is in fact part and parcel of Infinity. I think this song is a worldess painting of the allure of Science to humanity. This song fades out into "King's Lead Hat," where we will hear all about the pinnacle of glory and absurdity in Scientific thought.
(An aside: many songs on "Before and After Science" are introduced through fade-ins, and most songs end by fading out. This technique seems to imply endlessness; the songs are cyclic at core, like video game BGM. Eno is presenting us with snapshots of human history -- each song is a fragment of The Long Now, it seems, and he fades us out and in to avoid severing the internal continuity of each Moment).