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There seem to be many lyrics sites on the web. Just search for song title lyrics on Google and you'll see many of them. I am not convinced those services are going anywhere for two reasons.

Firstly, while I thought there are 'good' lyrics sites that I'd prefer over others at first, I've come to realise that it's easier to do a Google search every single time than going to a specific site and tracking down a song there. Thus it should be hard for those sites to get a base of regular users and hence quality input. This is reflected in:

Secondly, the lyrics are frequently wrong – either blatantly or in the details – and typo ridden. Furthermore many sites simply seem to copy from one another. If you're unclear about what the lyrics actually are in the hard to understand parts of a song it's likely that the people who wrote up those lyrics didn't understand it either and wrote down anything which was then copied by all the other sites – making the whole thing no help at all.

There seem to be many lyrics sites on the web. Just search for song title lyrics on Google and you'll see many of them. I am not convinced those... October 26, 2003, 1:48

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Comment by Amy: Gravatar image

true dat!!! :o)

October 4, 2004, 7:30

Comment by Thomas: Gravatar image

That it’s true. I’m working in something that I consider different. I leave the site link: www.123-lyrics.com. I think in the future the site will be a wiki… or something like that Please, analyze it and give me your feedback if you consider this message it is spam just delete it.

Regards, Thomas

January 8, 2009, 19:16

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