I like the concept very much. It is a good idea. To make this hint work better for me, I created two scripts - one to search for lyrics and one to add lyrics from a web page.

Search script (run from within iTunes):

tell application "iTunes"
set theName to name of current track
set arts to artist of current track
set searchTerm to arts & " " & theName & " lyrics"
end tell
set thewords to words of searchTerm
set oldtids to AppleScript's text item delimiters
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to "+"
set googstring to thewords as text
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to oldtids
set serURL to "http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en-us&q="; & googstring & "&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8"
tell application "Safari"
open location serURL
activate
end tell

Get lyrics into iTunes (run from within Safari):

tell application "Safari"
set selecTxt to (do JavaScript "(getSelection())" in document 1)
end tell

tell application "iTunes"
set lyrics of current track to selecTxt
end tell


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