the lyrics editing...

[MrsCarbohydrate]

Originally Posted by A_Plus

I accept that the words need to be honed down to fit into a song format but Williams Last Words seems to have either been dramatically lost in translation or misguidedly shoe-horned into being the kind of cryptic note people would like to imagine Edwards would leave.

As a translator I don't tend to give much credence to the concept of "lost in translation" or have a problem with people who interpret making something of their own out of the material. Which is probably why I'm not that upset about the edit.

They haven't been dishonest- they editing process has been laid very bare and we can compare the two, indeed examine the whole process of creation since we also have the demos. I'm more interested in why it was edited as it was.