Search lyrics.com for songs whose lyrics contain a given word or phrase. Returns matching songs with artist, title, a short excerpt of the line where the word appears, and the lyrics.com id and URL needed to fetch the full text with get_lyrics. Use this when someone remembers a fragment of lyrics but not the song, or wants songs mentioning a word or theme. One call returns one page of lyrics.com results; to see more, increase 'page' rather than 'limit'. lyrics.com also returns loose and title-only matches, so results are filtered locally to keep only songs where the word genuinely appears in the lyrics. Set 'verify' to "none" to see the raw, unfiltered list.

Find songs on lyrics.com by their title. Returns candidate songs with artist, album, year, and the lyrics.com id and URL. Use this when someone names a song and you need its id to call get_lyrics, or to tell covers and versions by different artists apart. An optional 'artist' narrows the list. lyrics.com searches titles and lyrics together, so results are ranked and filtered locally by title match; use match="strict" to keep only genuine title matches.

Fetch the full lyrics of one song from lyrics.com, given the song id or URL returned by search_lyrics or search_songs. Lyrics can be long, so the response is truncated by default: check 'truncated' and call again with 'offset' set to 'next_offset' to continue reading. Some lyrics.com pages legitimately have no lyrics on file; those come back with status "no_lyrics" and an empty lyrics field, which is a valid answer and not an error, so do not retry them. Always cite 'source_url' and the artist when showing lyrics to a user.