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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2013-11-07 12:10:30

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by StoneColdFox

12y ago

This seems to be one of their songs that doesn't lean towards meaning of lyrics, but more towards the sound and the movement it creates with music.

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by Frometheus 12y ago

Definitely. And the lyrics do supplement the instrumental well.

by Excalibur7 11y ago

@StoneColdFox I agree that this song is more focused on the music, but I still believe Ryan but a lot of thought into the lyrics, regardless of how simple they may seem.

by simon59135

11y ago

Well obviously it's mostly straightforward breakup stuff:

'What will we do now? We lost it...' 'What can we say now? Our mouths only lying'

All self-explanatory.

'Lost it to trying' is a bit more subtle, but in light of 'Give in and get out', clearly there were incompatibilities in the relationship, they wanted different things, but interestingly they tried too hard to make it work on their own individual terms, rather than loving more generously the way things simply were. Until they lost it to trying.

The crucial line is 'We rise in the dying'. Better to have loved and lost? This love failed but they emerge stronger out of it? The EP version video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgqZNh9w5bw) makes it seem much scarier than that though! Like they agree they can't go on together, but they also can't go on apart, so enter a suicide pact, hoping to rise to a better place where they can finally be happy together.

Pretty cool for so few lyrics :)

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by simon59135 11y ago

Come to think of it, 'lost it to trying' probably isn't 'lost it by trying', exactly. More like lost the doing (the being in love) to the trying to (be in love).

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