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BarbaricAvatar
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 04, 2024 5:09 am 
 

Are the lyrics for songs strictly based upon those written in the album booklet, or is it fair to take into account how they may change between composition and recording?

For example the existing lyrics for a song are, verbatim:

Remeber your skin, your eyes...all is lost
Ghost of desire now I'm pray for their damnation.
Remember my words "At the devil masquerade"
Your soul will be mine, I fell your fear,
Your trembly body, unconscious sense of strange
Now I'm here

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Which features spelling errors and paragraphing that doesn't fit with the pacing of the recording. A more appropriate citation would be:

Remember your skin, your eyes.
Ghosts of desire now I pray for...
Their damnation.

Remember my words "At the Devil's Masquerade".
Your soul will be mine.
Feel your fear, your trembling body.
Unconscious sense of strange, now I'm here.

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Does the site allow for these distinctions, or are the lyrics only to be as written in the book?

Thanks.

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Midnightwards666
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 05, 2024 6:02 pm 
 

Submit the lyrics with the same wording as written in the booklet, but it is fine to correct grammatical/spelling errors.
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