But there's a jarring half-second of confusion that disrupts my thinking, slows down my reading, and distracts me from what is being communicated. I would sugg

But there's a jarring half-second of confusion that disrupts my thinking, slows down my reading, and distracts me from what is being communicated. I would suggest that it's your literalism (or, perhaps, if not grammar rabies, then at least excessive focus on it) that's the issue here, not the presence or absence of a punctuation mark in a transliteration of a song lyric. The author may be guilty of not being conservative in what he sends, but your guilt, in not being liberal in what you accept, is, to me, much clearer.