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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by Kingofstilport

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This is an instrumental, which Michael Poulsen explained its origin in detail. "We weren’t sure if wanted to have an intro to the album originally, and this came out of nowhere. We’d asked Paul Lamb, who is a great blues harp player if he’d do something with us, and we were waiting for him to show up in the studio. We were checking some of his stuff out on YouTube, and I got so inspired that I said, ‘We should write an intro for the song Dead But Rising and let him play harp on that.’ We had 20 minutes to do it, so we sat in the kitchen in the studio with two acoustic guitars, jamming and switching ideas back and forth. Twenty minutes later Paul turned up and we said, ‘We just wrote an intro you have to play it on.’ It sounded huge, so we decided to use it as an intro for the whole record."

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