diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index d94aa727..219c609b 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ ncmpc 0.50 - not yet released
 * draw progress bar as Unicode double line
 * add color style "text" for input text controls
 * remove option "text-editor-ask"
+* fix lyrics editor crash
 * lyrics/musixmatch: add new lyrics extension
 * lyrics/google: fix partial loading of lyrics
 * support MPD 0.22 tag "label" (requires libmpdclient 2.17)
diff --git a/src/LyricsPage.cxx b/src/LyricsPage.cxx
index 6eb14d4c..5613d4aa 100644
--- a/src/LyricsPage.cxx
+++ b/src/LyricsPage.cxx
@@ -11,7 +11,6 @@
 #include "Options.hxx"
 #include "screen.hxx"
 #include "plugin.hxx"
-#include "ncu.hxx"
 #include "page/TextPage.hxx"
 #include "lib/fmt/ToSpan.hxx"
 #include "client/mpdclient.hxx"
@@ -346,15 +345,16 @@ LyricsPage::Edit() noexcept
 	if (!Save())
 		return;
 
-	ncu_deinit();
+	def_prog_mode();
+	endwin();
 
 	/* TODO: fork/exec/wait won't work on Windows, but building a command
 	   string for system() is too tricky */
 	int status;
 	pid_t pid = fork();
 	if (pid == -1) {
+		reset_prog_mode();
 		FmtAlert("{} ({})"sv, _("Can't start editor"), strerror(errno));
-		ncu_init();
 		return;
 	} else if (pid == 0) {
 		execlp(editor, editor, path.c_str(), nullptr);
@@ -367,7 +367,7 @@ LyricsPage::Edit() noexcept
 		} while (ret == -1 && errno == EINTR);
 	}
 
-	ncu_init();
+	reset_prog_mode();
 
 	/* TODO: hardly portable */
 	if (WIFEXITED(status)) {