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.

brian

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2012-08-10 03:00:06

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by Weirdsmobile

17y ago

Cash's cover of "Hurt" from American IV gets most of the attention as his swan song, and rightfully so, but for me, this song is even more poignant and heartbreaking. Just as with "Hurt," Cash takes a familiar song and makes it completely his own. You can't listen to this without thinking of Johnny's lady, June Carter Cash, and knowing that he's singing about her and their great love, at the very end of their lives together.

You've got to have a heart of stone to hear him sing lines like "I know our joy would fill the earth / and last 'till the end of time my love" and not get choked up. I can't begin to imagine the loss and remembered joy of two people who have been deeply in love for almost 40 years, facing their mortality and the fact that they will soon be separated by death.

It's sad, but also a thing to be celebrated. How fortunate any of us would be to find someone to be our one true love and companion in life, and to have what Johnny and June had. And I can't think of a lovelier epitaph for their life together than this song.

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by Layzie29A 14y ago

I can't agree more... sometimes people are fortunate enough to meet another that encompasses what this song is about...

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