This is LyriCue, the audio lyrics prompter.

Where to Find Lyrics

If you don't already have your songs written down somewhere, here are some places musicians commonly go to find lyrics and chords to bring into LyriCue.

For your own original songs

The easiest option: paste them straight in, or use your phone's dictation to speak them into the New Song screen. You can also save your original songs in your Dropbox, and LyriCue can import them.

For covers of other artists' songs

Sites like Genius, AZLyrics, and the artist's or publisher's own official website are common places to find plain lyrics. For lyrics with chords included, Ultimate Guitar and Chordie are widely used, and both let you copy a song out in the ChordPro-style format LyriCue can import directly.

For worship and church settings

If your congregation has a CCLI (or similar) license, that usually covers printed or projected lyrics for services, which is worth checking before bringing songs in for that kind of use.

Using an AI assistant

Some testers have had good luck asking an AI assistant, like Claude or ChatGPT, to find and format a song's lyrics for their own personal use, then saving the result into the Dropbox folder LyriCue reads from. It's a bit more technical than the other options here, but it works well once you've got the hang of it, and the same assistant can usually read in ChordPro-format files too if you already have a collection of those.

In a pinch, with no computer handy

If you're somewhere without your usual setup and need someone to get you a song fast — say someone else has the lyrics on their phone and you just need it in LyriCue — Dropbox has a built-in trick worth setting up ahead of time. Create a "file request" in Dropbox pointed at your LyriCue songs folder, and Dropbox gives you a dedicated email address for it. Anyone can email a file to that address and it lands straight in your folder, ready to import, no Dropbox account needed on their end. Works best for a plain text or ChordPro-style file — a Word document or PDF will land in the folder too, but LyriCue can't read those formats directly yet. Worth setting up before you need it, and keeping the address somewhere you can find it fast.

A quick note on copyright

Lyrics are generally under copyright even when they're freely visible on a website. Using them for your own personal practice and performance, the way you'd use a printed lyric sheet, is the same kind of everyday use most performers already rely on.