I rewrote most of a verse last week, except for one line.

It had been there since an early draft, and I liked it enough that I kept leaving it alone. I shortened the line before it, changed the one after it, and rewrote the end of the verse more than once.

At some point, I noticed how much I was changing just to keep that one line where it was.

It still looked fine in the document, which was probably why I hadn't questioned it much.

While listening through a version I'd made with YuE2, the line started bothering me again. There wasn't anything obviously wrong with it. It just seemed to pull more attention than I wanted.

I moved it somewhere else, didn't like that either, and put it back.

Later, I copied the lyrics into another draft and removed the line completely. I expected the verse to feel like something was missing, but it didn't, at least not to me.

I listened again later that day and still preferred the shorter version, so that's the one in my current draft.

The old line is still at the bottom of the document with a few other things I haven't deleted. I haven't found another place for it yet, so it's staying there for now.