turns out rewriting all of your database code takes a while

music/model/track.go

@@ -1,10 +1,30 @@
 package model
 
-type Track struct {
-    ID          string      `json:"id"`
-    Title       string      `json:"title"`
-    Description string      `json:"description"`
-    Lyrics      string      `json:"lyrics"`
-    PreviewURL  string      `json:"previewURL" db:"preview_url"`
-    Release     *Release    `json:"-" db:"-"`
+import (
+	"html/template"
+	"strings"
+)
+
+type (
+	Track struct {
+		ID          string `json:"id"`
+		Title       string `json:"title"`
+		Description string `json:"description"`
+		Lyrics      string `json:"lyrics"`
+		PreviewURL  string `json:"previewURL" db:"preview_url"`
+	}
+
+	DisplayTrack struct {
+		*Track
+		Lyrics template.HTML
+		Number int
+	}
+)
+
+func (track Track) MakeDisplay(number int) DisplayTrack {
+    return DisplayTrack{
+        Track: &track,
+        Lyrics: template.HTML(strings.Replace(track.Lyrics, "\n", "<br>", -1)),
+        Number: number,
+    }
 }