# Is there a website to get ACCURATE song lyrics? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 18, 2010, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-website-to-get-accurate-song-lyrics/557517 "2010-10-18T02:54:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2010, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-website-to-get-accurate-song-lyrics/557517/1 "2010-10-18T02:54:49Z")
Websites with song lyrics are a dime a dozen, but they are frequently full of errors. It seems that any random dumbass writes down what he thinks the lyrics are to a song, and then posts them to these sites. Example, using that timeless classic "Ice Ice Baby"on [lyrics007.com](http://lyrics007.com): Dance go rush to the speaker that booms I’m killing your brain like a poisonous mushroom Deadly when I play a dope melody Anything less than the best is a felony Love it or leave it you better gain weight You better hit bull’s eye the kid don’t play If there was a problem yo I’ll solve it Check out the hook while my DJ revolves it Line 1 should be “bum rush,” not “go rush”; Line 5 should be “you better gain way,” not “you better gain weight.” There are also several other errors on this web page. Is there a site that actually has the correct lyrics to songs? ---
**Author:** ![Covered\_In\_Bees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ab992/32.png) [@Covered\_In\_Bees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Covered_In_Bees)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2010, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-website-to-get-accurate-song-lyrics/557517/2 "2010-10-18T03:14:26Z")
You can always try [lyrics.wikia.com](http://lyrics.wikia.com). A site I learned about from here on the Dope. I can’t tell you how accurate their stuff is for your specific example, but it’s not too far away for you to do it yourself. 😉 For rock music you can also try [The Music Made Me Do It](http://www.musicmademe.com/). ---
**Author:** ![Khaki\_Campbell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9de053/32.png) [@Khaki\_Campbell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khaki_Campbell)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2010, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-website-to-get-accurate-song-lyrics/557517/3 "2010-10-18T05:51:38Z")
Wikia is the best for lyrics, but for some reason, they can’t be highlighted and copied. ---
**Author:** ![fusoya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecccb3/32.png) [@fusoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fusoya)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2010, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-website-to-get-accurate-song-lyrics/557517/4 "2010-10-18T06:09:43Z")
I find that [Songmeanings](http://www.songmeanings.net) often has the most accurate lyrics…and interpretations too! ---
**Author:** ![NineToTheSky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5a626/32.png) [@NineToTheSky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NineToTheSky)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2010, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-website-to-get-accurate-song-lyrics/557517/5 "2010-10-18T12:33:32Z")
In my experience, when there is an error, most sites repeat it - as if they all copy the first one that lists it. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2010, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-website-to-get-accurate-song-lyrics/557517/6 "2010-10-18T14:01:12Z")
SnagIt easily copies text from Song Wikia. 😃 Under Mode, change to Text Capture. Usually I paste into Notepad and clean up any problems. [quote=“Khaki\_Campbell, post:3, topic:557517”] Wikia is the best for lyrics, but for some reason, they can’t be highlighted and copied.[/QUO ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2010, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-website-to-get-accurate-song-lyrics/557517/7 "2010-10-18T14:29:45Z")
I don’t know if it’s the same thing as “Song Wikia” but someone here once linked to [LyricWiki](http://lyrics.wikia.com/Main_Page), which is pretty comprehensive, and I think malware-free (unlike some of the lyrics sites). ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2010, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-website-to-get-accurate-song-lyrics/557517/8 "2010-10-18T14:35:51Z")
Lyric Wiki is the one I use. I didn’t know there was another song wiki? [http://lyrics.wikia.com/Main\_Page](http://lyrics.wikia.com/Main_Page) I second the warning about random song sites. I got infected one time. I googled a song and went to the first lyric hit. :mad: Had to reformat my laptop to remove vundo. Vundo just keeps coming back after cleaning. Reformat is the only fix. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2010, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-website-to-get-accurate-song-lyrics/557517/9 "2010-10-20T12:16:15Z")
> [@Khaki\_Campbell](#): > > Wikia is the best for lyrics, but for some reason, they can’t be highlighted and copied. Far East Movement:Like A G6 Poppin bottles in the ice, like a blizzard When we drink we do it right gettin slizzard Sippin sizzurp in my ride, like Three 6 Now I’m feelin so fly like a G6 Like a G6, Like a G6 Now I’m feelin so fly like a G6 I don’t have a problem. Note that that was just the first song on the page. ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2010, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-website-to-get-accurate-song-lyrics/557517/10 "2010-10-20T14:14:10Z")
> [@Khaki\_Campbell](#): > > Wikia is the best for lyrics, but for some reason, they can’t be highlighted and copied. Just click on “Edit”, then it appears in clear text. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2017, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-website-to-get-accurate-song-lyrics/557517/13 "2017-07-19T03:39:24Z")
I think you just have to read the lyrics for any song on a dozen-or-so different sites and take the average of them all. It’s like trying to get an accurate reconstruction of what the Bible says – they take all the ancient manuscripts they can find, in a dozen different ancient languages, hidden away in caves and monastery attics, and compare them literally word-for-word, and try to make their best scholarly guesses as to what the long-lost original text said. – And then they end up with nearly half of each page consisting of footnotes giving every alternate word or phrase for everything on the page. ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2017, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-website-to-get-accurate-song-lyrics/557517/14 "2017-07-20T03:55:20Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > I think you just have to read the lyrics for any song on a dozen-or-so different sites and take the average of them all. I generally find that if one site has some incorrect lyrics, the same incorrect lyrics are copy-pasted onto multiple sites.