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.
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no yes yes yes no no yes yes
This portion always perplexed me. You can distinctly hear the female vocalists layering the binary and ons and offs and yes and no's but I always assumed she was saying the same thing in different was. However, if you convert the no and off to 0 and yes and on to 1 you'll get more binary. When you run that through a converter you get the full message Ayreon is sending:
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Quite possibly my favorite song ever and with this new depth gives me chills up my spine. Ayreon RULES!
You can distinctly hear the female vocalists layering the binary and ons and offs and yes and no's but I always assumed she was saying the same thing in different WAYS.
You can distinctly hear the female vocalists layering the binary and ons and offs and yes and no's but I always assumed she was saying the same thing in different WAYS.
Holy crap I just bought this CD on a whim because I heard the Ayreon song with Bruce Dickinson and decided to check it out, and this is effing awesome!
"The story begins with the Forever lamenting for their Planet Y. One of the Forevers (Tom Englund) tells that "We never saw this coming", while others (Steve Lee and Daniel Gildenlöw) say that they depended on machines to evolve, machines that now "Blot out the sun". Another two Forevers (Hansi Kürsch and Floor Jansen) point out that due to the machines, they don't have feelings. Another two Forevers have no hope (Jonas Renkse and Anneke Van Giersbergen) saying that they are prisoners, that they wait for no one. Soon after, a new Forever (Jørn Lande) joins the Steve's and Daniel's Forevers."
-wiki
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no yes yes yes no no yes yes no yes yes no yes yes yes yes no yes yes yes no no yes yes
This portion always perplexed me. You can distinctly hear the female vocalists layering the binary and ons and offs and yes and no's but I always assumed she was saying the same thing in different was. However, if you convert the no and off to 0 and yes and on to 1 you'll get more binary. When you run that through a converter you get the full message Ayreon is sending:
H E L P
F O R E V E R
S O S
Quite possibly my favorite song ever and with this new depth gives me chills up my spine. Ayreon RULES!
You can distinctly hear the female vocalists layering the binary and ons and offs and yes and no's but I always assumed she was saying the same thing in different WAYS.
You can distinctly hear the female vocalists layering the binary and ons and offs and yes and no's but I always assumed she was saying the same thing in different WAYS.
Sorry for the typo, we need an edit button!
Sorry for the typo, we need an edit button!
thanks for decoding that! i always wondered what they were saying, but never bothered to look it up.
thanks for decoding that! i always wondered what they were saying, but never bothered to look it up.
Holy crap I just bought this CD on a whim because I heard the Ayreon song with Bruce Dickinson and decided to check it out, and this is effing awesome!
"The story begins with the Forever lamenting for their Planet Y. One of the Forevers (Tom Englund) tells that "We never saw this coming", while others (Steve Lee and Daniel Gildenlöw) say that they depended on machines to evolve, machines that now "Blot out the sun". Another two Forevers (Hansi Kürsch and Floor Jansen) point out that due to the machines, they don't have feelings. Another two Forevers have no hope (Jonas Renkse and Anneke Van Giersbergen) saying that they are prisoners, that they wait for no one. Soon after, a new Forever (Jørn Lande) joins the Steve's and Daniel's Forevers." -wiki
For anyone else who was interested, thanks to my computer nerdiness, the section:
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evaluates to the 4 letters "H-E-L-P."
I thought this was very interesting.