I remember when the only way to obtain lyrics to a song that I liked was to grab the necessary artifact required (read: pencil) and listen to it dozens and dozens of times until all of the words were meticulously transcribed to paper.
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nōvel
on March 16, 2010
I didn't have access to a computer when I was younger + none of my favourite songs came with lyrics in the jewel case.
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"The algebra has a devil for a sidekick eeeeeeeeee"
Or apparently just http://www.kissthisguy.com
It does make me wonder if the lyrics posted on various sites today all copy from each other, thus replicating errors in much the same way...
I always thought it was "Beelzebub has a devil of a time for me..."
They do Violaine; to a degree.
This also applies to guitar/instrument tabs. There's a lot of sharing and adaptation, but no real controlled process for convergence. You'll do a tab search for a song and find the same text file included in many different sites. Presumably there's a whole lot of scraping going on, along with manual copy and paste.
I prefer to do my own arrangements from a good start point.
That method doesn't work, for reasons Slarti alluded to. I look up lyrics because I can't tell what they are. If I can make them out, I don't generally need to write them down or look them up.