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.

Azazel23

Submitter

2013-12-27 05:10:49

2 Meanings

Add your song meanings, interpretations, facts, memories & more to the community.

Sort by

by Azazel23

12y ago

Officially from the band:

I read an article in Adbusters about a girl who took party drugs (a lot of them) because she said the generation before us fucked the planet over for good. Life is meaningless, so the current generation should go out with a bang. She wasn’t an idiot; she literally quoted the facts about global warming, peak oil etc. and also justified her collection of 100 pairs of very expensive shoes with an ultra-consumer “me-first” mantra. This girl became the character for ‘Saramona Said’, and the same idea floats through other songs. I just find this viewpoint extremely interesting. Rather than admitting to the flaws of human desire, they embrace them with pride. I hate it, but in a way it points out shallowness of lot of how we live our lives anyway. We do what she does, we just don’t have a mantra that goes with it. This was one of the first songs written for the record and it kind of set the standard. It was different for us and we liked how it builds through the whole song and isn’t stuck in the usual soft-loud dynamic.

Song Meaning

Users:

Reply · 0 Share

by Soundsallthesame

10y ago

I think it goes,

Let's start a riot It's like a big freight train Let's start a fire We have to feed it

And the part at the end with the overlapping words,

As we watch we lose ourselves To find the world was always fine (mine?) All and all we lose ourselves A miracle, a miracle As we lose ourselves

My Interpretation

Users:

Reply · 0 Share

Questions and Answers

Ask specific questions and get answers to unlock more indepth meanings & facts.