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If you just search for "hand me out to drive", literally all the results are websites that copied this insane transcription.

(For anyone not familiar, the actual phrase and what the song says is "hang me out to dry")

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago (1 children)

We’re reentering the “lyrics are functionally not online” era of trying to understand lyrics. I’ve noticed this with trying to search for videos with lyrics on YouTube, whatever content mills churn them out are all pulling from the same source with the same typos.

[–] turbowafflz 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The quantity of lyrics isn't huge but the open lyrics database has pretty good transcription from what I've seen. (And it's way less annoying to contribute to than things like musixmatch) https://github.com/Lyrics/lyrics-database

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

That’s neat, thanks for the link!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)
[–] turbowafflz 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

https://genius.com/Hamster-rose-bouquet-lyrics

No idea if it's a good song, I've only listened to enough to figure out that it was the transcriber's bone apple tea not the singer

[–] CodexArcanum 5 points 4 months ago

lol, I thought for a minute it was Cold War Kids, but that song is "Hang me up to dry" and followed by the lyrics "you rung me out" instead of "chew me up."

I looked up the Hamster song and the lyrics are also wrong in YT Music. And yeah, she very clearly says "hang me out to dry."

Lyrics are a pain now, and close captions on everything are hot garbage now too since they use "AI" to auto transcribe.