These are common definitions and explanations of privacy in general:

• The quality of being secluded from the presence or view of others.
• The condition of being concealed or hidden.
• The ability of an individual or group to seclude themselves or information about themselves and thereby reveal themselves selectively.
• The state of being private / the state of not being seen by others.

Privacy is important when working on-line because personal or private information can be abused. Private information, if it gets into the wrong hands, can be used in ways you don't approve of. Private information is available on the Internet only if you personally provide it.

Mp3Lyrics is committed to making sure that the privacy and safety of our users is kept at a high level. It is in our interest to take users' privacy and safety seriously. We invest much effort and take appropriate measures to make sure that no users of Mp3Lyrics will, in any way, experience spam, ad-ware, spy ware or computer virus as a result of using any of the services on Mp3Lyrics. We never send unsolicited e-mail to anyone!

Mp3Lyrics is not interested in any of your private information, and we do not collect private information from you. We will not ask you to provide private information (however, you may, if you wish, give us your email address so that you can receive a reply when contacting us and/or adding to or update lyrics). All private information, if received from users, is immediately deleted. Mp3Lyrics does not sell, rent or provide contact information or e-mail addresses to any third party advertisers. You can read more about the privacy practices of Mp3Lyrics by clicking this link to Privacy.

It is not in our interest to have dissatisfied visitors because we want you to come back again. We would like every guest to feel safe and enjoy an excellent experience using Mp3Lyrics.

Pop-up ads (aka: a pop-up or pop-under) are a form of advertising that automatically opens a new window in your web browser when visiting a web site. You shouldn't confuse pop-up ads with overlay or invue ads which appear differently on your screen.

A pop-up ad contains an advertisement that the marketing entity wants you to see. You will most likely see pop-up ads displayed when Mp3Lyrics. The content of such ads depends upon your geographical location. It it not Mp3Lyrics that delivers these pop-up ads; they are sent from a direct (external) advertiser or through a third party advertiser with whom Mp3Lyrics has a trusted relationship.

Sometimes, advertisements on Mp3Lyrics are delivered to your web page by ad agencies through a trusted partnership. This means that we ( Mp3Lyrics) trusts these particular ad agencies to find marketing entities who comply with our privacy guidelines. Because it is the advertisers or ad-agencies that decide what is included in any pop-up ad, we (Mp3Lyrics) does not have control of what is contained in the code that makes the pop-up ad, or who sees it.

Some people find pop-up ads to be annoying, but we need to display pop-up ads to our users because that is part of how we get the funds to operate this web site. Rest assured the pop-up ads are safe and are not harmful to your computer or your privacy.

It is not in our interest to have dissatisfied visitors because we want you to come back again. We would like every guest to feel safe and enjoy an excellent experience using Mp3Lyrics.

Spam is junk mail sent to your email address that you have not requested. You will not get spam by using Mp3Lyrics.

You cannot receive spam unless you or someone else posts your email address publicly or gives it to someone who is sending out spam. At Mp3Lyrics we are not interested in having your email address for any other purpose than replying to your requests, or letting you know your updated lyrics og new lyrics have been received and approved. You must actively give us your email address each time you make a submission for that to happen.

You will not get spam by using Mp3Lyrics. We don't benefit from spam, only from online advertisements displayed to you when you visit Mp3Lyrics.

It is not in our interest to have dissatisfied visitors because we want you to come back again. We would like every guest to feel safe and enjoy an excellent experience using Mp3Lyrics.

A computer virus (aka: Spy Ware or ad-ware ) is a program that tries to install itself on your computer without your knowledge or permission. The program can have a variety of different intentions. Sometimes it wants to destroy data on your computer. Other times it wants to collect private data from your computer so that the owners of the virus can use or abuse it to their benefit. Sometimes a virus exists for the sole reason that one or more persons think it is fun and challenging to create it and have it infect other people's computers. Some viruses may not do any harm to your computer, but many exist on your computer only to perhaps duplicate/infect other computers through your computer.

It is hard to determine the intentions of a virus because it can be anything that the creator is able to make the virus do, and its behavior or reason for existence may not be logical or beneficial to anyone. Viruses can have many other types of harmful consequences: listed here are just a few common examples.

All viruses, regardless of their intentions, use resources on your computer and cause your computer to run slower. It is not possible to get a virus from using Mp3Lyrics.

It is not in our interest to have dissatisfied visitors because we want you yo come back again. We would like every guest to feel safe and enjoy an excellent experience using Mp3Lyrics.

Spy-Ware is a type of computer virus. It tries to install itself on your computer without your knowledge. Its goal is to to collect information for its creators to use in any number of malicious ways. It is not possible to get spy-ware viruses from using Mp3Lyrics.

It is not in our interest to have dissatisfied visitors because we want you yo come back again. We would like every guest to feel safe and enjoy an excellent experience using Mp3Lyrics.

Ad-Ware is a type of computer virus. It tries to install itself on your computer without your knowledge. Its goal is to display advertising to you in a variety of ways. It attempts to analyze your behavior to learn which ads to display that are most likely to get you to respond. Ad-ware often wants you to believe that the ads you see are related to some other web site you have visited, even though that site has nothing to do with the __ad-ware ads that were sent to you.

Sometimes people get angry with a web site such as Mp3Lyrics because they believe it displays an excessive amount of pop-up ads or other types of ads, when in fact it is the ad-ware virus that is to blame. It is not possible to get ad-ware viruses by using Mp3Lyrics.

It is not in our interest to have dissatisfied visitors because we want you yo come back again. We would like every guest to feel safe and enjoy an excellent experience using Mp3Lyrics.

An overlay ad (aka: overlay) is a feature (not to be confused with a pop up) that is used to dim the appearance of content of a web page (aka: a document) and to display an undimmed message on top of it. On Mp3Lyrics we use overlay ads to dosplay advertising from only trusted marketing partners.

An invue ad (not to be confused with pop up) is an ad that flows over a web page (aka: a document) and stop in the middle of the page. On Mp3Lyrics we use invue ads to display advertising from only trusted marketing partners.

A web browser (aka browser or User-Agent) is a program on your computer that is used to view a web page. When you want to visit a web page (e.g., by entering http://www.mp3lyrics.org/ in the address field of your browser), your web browser requests the page's content from a web server. Simply put, most of the time it is the web browser's job to interpret a web server’s answer and provide a visual image for you.

There are several different web browsers, each one created by a different company. Each web browser interprets the a web server’s answer in its own way. On Mp3Lyrics the interpretation is usually in HTML or Java Script formats, which may result in different looks or behaviors when viewing the same page with different web browsers.

HTML is short for Hypertext Markup Language, and it is the form in which the answer that is usually given to your computer by our web server when you request a web page (aka: a document). HTML is the language (aka: content) we use to create the web pages that you see on Mp3Lyrics. This language is designed to format the content of a web page in a way that can be interpreted by your web browser. Your web browser understands our server's language and displays the result in a way that we want you to see it.

An example of how we use HTML is to give color to text. Another example is to write text in a different size. Yet another example is to create links.

A HTML or HTML link (aka: link) is an often used feature that is nothing more mysterious than a reference from one web page (aka document) to another.

Usually a HTML is blue text, underlined in blue that transforms your mouse cursor into a pointing hand when hovering over it. It has the function of taking you to the web page it references when you left click on it. However, a link may appear differently depending on how the web page designers styled it.

If you want to put up a link to Mp3Lyrics on your own blog, web site or web page, you will find suggestions and technical examples on how that can be done in different ways at link examples.

Left Clicking (aka just clicking or to click) means to click the left button on your mouse. If you see the instruction to left click or just click on something, it usually means to move your mouse cursor to a web link or some other element that appears on a web page and then to press the button on the left side of your mouse. This is a universal action that is often used and is designed to, amongst other things, get your web browser to following links on web pages, open menus and make choices on those menus.

Unless an instruction specifically says right click you should assumme that just click (without the word left in front of it), means left click, the more common action. If you are supposed to right click on something the instruction will always say right click.

Right clicking (aka: right click) means to click the right button on your mouse. If you see the instruction to right click on something, it usually means to move your mouse cursor to a web page or some element that appears on a web page and then to click the button on the right side of your mouse. Usually, by right clicking at a designated spot on a web page, a set of options will appear next to the cursor. Options that appear depend upon what functions your browser is configured to make available and may further be affected or controlled by the use of such tools as Java Script.

Highlighting (aka to highlight) is most often used to copy and paste lyrics from Mp3Lyrics to some other documents. To highlight the text you wish to copy, hold down the left button of your mouse and move your cursor over the exact text that you wish to copy. After the text you want is highlighted (tha background surrounding the text will be a different color), type Ctrl-c. Next place your cursor at the point you want the copied text to appear and type Ctrl-v. A copy of the previously highlighted text will appear.

If a lyrics web page contains copyrighted material, the copy function is disabled on that Mp3Lyrics web page, because it is a requirement by Gracenote so that we remain in compliance with their copyright guidelines. (Click this Gracenote link to read more about our agreement and cooperation with Gracenote.)

JavaScript is a simple and secure programming language that gives us the opportunity to run small logical operations (aka “programs”) in your web browser that relate to the web page we show you.

The "program" can be given to your browser put inside HTML code.

This makes the pages you see more interactive and quicker and easier for you to use.

Many experts would say it is a "scripting method" or "scripting language", but we think that "simple and secure programming language" is a good way of explaining it to the average visitor (most users of this web site). We say “simple”, because compared to many other programming languages, it is simple. We say “secure” because it is designed so that it is not possible to do anything else on your computer other than interact with you through your web browser on the web page you are viewing.

An example of JavaScript usage is to interact with the user by popping up a message when text is clicked on. This Web Site uses JavaScript for the following purposes:

• To comply with copyright & license requirements.
• To improve services and user experience with functionality and enhancements that supersede html-only pages.
• To decrease page load times for users.

This explanation of JavaScript is not a complete or comprehensive definition. It is merely a simplified version of what JavaScript is.

A web site is made up of all the web pages (aka documents) on a domain name. Mp3Lyrics consists of hundreds of thousands of web pages. Each web page contain HTML data. What you are reading now is a web page on our web site. Most of our web pages contain lyrics to a song and sometimes music video links and notes pertaining to the song. Some of our web pages, which we call an artist archive contain a listing of all the song names of the chosen artist and sometimes thumbnail pictures pertaining to the artist. There are many different types of web pages on the Mp3Lyrics web site.

A web page is (aka document) is the HTML content given to your web browser when you enter a URL to Mp3Lyrics. You are reading a web page on our web server now. This is another example of a web page on our web server.

Simply put, a web server is a computer that is designed and optimized for delivering (and receiving) data to (and from) many other computers at the same time. On a physical server (aka a computer) there can exist several different server programs (aka services). One such service is a program that delivers web pages (aka documents) to your computer.

A domain name is the static, logical address of a computer on the Internet. Besides being a home computer, a computer can quite often be a web server.

It is static because it does not change, as opposed to a web server Internet Protocol addresses (aka IP address), which can change from time to time.

It is logical because it is intended to be easy for humans to remember. A domain name represents an IP address on an IP network (aka the Internet)

Even though the IP address of a web page can change it doesn't matter because the domain name is the same and so the service is reachable in the same way as before the IP address of the service changed.

A host name can be thought of as a name created with alpha-numeric characters (a-z and / or 0-9), that represent an IP Address and is an address on the Internet.

It has many similarities as to a domain name, but more often represents a user's (aka client or visitor) IP Address than a server's IP Address. Very often a host name can be used instead of an IP Address. One reason for the existence of host names is that they make it easier to remember and recognize the IP Addresses. However, an IP Address is not guaranteed to have a host name associated with it. Similarly a server's IP Address is not guaranteed to have a domain name associated with it.

URL stands for Uniform Resource Locator. It represents the location of a web page (aka a document) on the Internet. It can be thought of as a more precise and complete address to a web page or web document, that extends the IP Address (which locates only the server) so that a specific document (aka page) can be determined from the request.

HTTP stands for Hypertext Transfer Protocol. It is the common language (a rule set for exchanging commands and data) that a web browser uses to communicate with or get data from a web server.

TCP stands for Transmission Control Protocol. It is a set of rules that computers need to follow in order to successfully transmit data to other computers on an IP network and know whether it is received or not.

On Mp3Lyrics, when we say IP, we mean Internet Protocol. It is a set of rules that almost all computers need to follow when sending and receiving messages between each other on the Internet. (Not to be confused with IP as in intellectual property.)

An IP address (aka a dotted quad) defines the physical location of a computer. It is a number that acts as a unique address on a network; and is used to reach a computer on a network. Your computer has an IP Address (which may also be represented by a domain name). Our web server has another IP Address. Your neighbor's computer has yet another IP Address. When you request a web page (aka a document) from our web server, we send the data back to you by directing it to your IP Address. The IP Address of the server belonging to Mp3Lyrics is 75.125.14.146.

Web cookies (aka tracking cookies, web browser cookies or HTTP cookies) are harmless files containing a small string of characters that is sent to your browser when you visit Mp3Lyrics, or most other web sites, for that matter. We use this string of characters as part of how we communicate with your browser and to ensure that we can enable certain features for you that would not be possible if your browser didn't support the use of cookies.

A good example of the use of cookies is when you visit a web site where you have to log in to view the content of the web site, for example a web email service. After you have logged in, a uniquely identifiable cookie is stored in your browser so that you don't have to log in or resend your password each time you request a new page from your logged in account. In this way you can view several emails without having to enter your password each time because your browser re-sends the cookie with each request, and the web server continues to recognize you by this unique cookie.

On Mp3Lyrics, for example, if you want to edit or change a song on a lyrics web page, we have to be able to make use of a cookie so our web server knows where to send the web page you requested. Just as in the email example above, the data in the cookie we send to your computer is stored in your browser, and this information is re-sent to our web server each time you request a new web page from Mp3Lyrics. A cookie may be stored for varying time periods depending on how it is configured and what it is used for.

Note, a cookie is not a program, so it cannot do anything harmful to your computer. It exists in silence and contains only small strings of text.

Mp3Lyrics is partnered with trusted, external companies (aka third-party companies) who, in the course of displaying advertisement to you when you visit certain of our web pages, and/or recognize cookies in your web browser each time you view an advertisement. One possible reason for the use of third-party cookies could be to prevent displaying the same advertisement to you several times in a row. Another reason could be to track your actions related to the advertising displays displays that are shown to you on Mp3Lyrics and so that the adapt ads to your interests.

A third-party cookie is implemented when you visit Mp3Lyrics may also be recognized and used by the our trusted, third-party partners when you visit other web sites besides Mp3Lyrics.

-Note, Mp3Lyrics has no influence on the behavios of third-party cookies.

Third-party advertising means that we use external companies (a.k.a. middle-men or agents) to sell advertising space on this web site. In other words, Mp3Lyrics does not directly contract with the advertiser for space on our web site, but the contracts are made between the advertiser and one of our trusted agents. Many of the banner advertisements you see on this web site are managed by external companies and not by Mp3Lyrics

Some of the ads they display may tell you that you've won money, software, holiday travels or similar items. Mp3Lyrics has no direct information or influence over these offers. If you want to get information about any such offer, you’d need to find a contact link or email address in the ad or on the web page that made the offer.

We are currently working on a solutions that would give our clients who have a product to advertise, as well as other first-party advertisers, the opportunity to advertise directly on Mp3Lyrics

Buying advertising space directly from Mp3Lyrics would have the advantage of bypassing external third party advertiser advertisers. Third-party advertisers can take a share of revenue from both the buyer and the seller. Avoiding third-party advertisers could have a decided advantage for a direct advertiser, in that the direct advertiser could enjoy reduced fees from Mp3Lyrics because a share of Mp3Lyrics' revenue would not have to go to a third-party advertisers, and the direct advertiser would know that their customers were not providing a share of the advertising revenue to a third-party advertiser.

Right now, the best way to see your ads on Mp3Lyrics is by going through our solution with ToneFuse.

Caching (aka: to cache) means to save data or store for later use. Mp3Lyrics uses caching to ease the load on our web server. There are two types of caching involved for visitors of Mp3Lyrics. One is server caching, the other is client caching.

When our web server creates web pages (aka: documents) it requires resources in the form of processing time and memory, on our server. This can be expensive when many requests appear in a short period of time. If too many people are using Mp3Lyrics at the same time, it may result in overloading on our server(s), and as a result this web site may appear to respond slower or to not respond at all. To prevent this we take advantage of these two types of caching.

With server caching we store many of the most visited web pages on our server and reuse the stored version when a new request for the same page is made. This is much quicker for our server than regenerating the same web page for each request. Because of this we can serve web pages to more people at the same time.

With client caching, we tell your browser to locally, on your computer, cache (or store locally) much of the content that Mp3Lyrics sends to you you. This method has the advantage that you can request several pages that you have requested before, but your browser doesn't have to download all the content each time you make the request, thereby making subsequent requests and page rendering considerably faster than it would be without the local caching.

Sometimes, however, there is a disadvantage with client caching in that the web page cached on your computer may have changed or have been updated on our server. If that happens, your browser will still display to you the old or outdated content from your cache. To know if page content was updated on our server you can force refresh the content in your browser.

When you visit a web page on Mp3Lyrics your web browser caches (aka caches) much of the content you see (and don't see). This can become a problem when the content changes (or is updated) on our server because your browser may display invalid or outdated content to you, and not deliver the newest or updated content from our server.

Your browser is locally caching content in the effort of speeding up your web surfing. You can avoid seeing outdated content by force refreshing (aka force reloading or force re-fetching) the content from our web server.

The procedure to do this differs depending on what web browser you use. When viewing the page you want to force refresh, depending on which of the following browsers you are using, use one of the following commands:

• Internet Explorer : Ctrl + F5
• Fire Fox : F5 or Ctrl+shift+r
• Opera : F5 or Ctrl+r
• Safari (Apple/Macintosh) : Apple+R or Command+R

Robots (aka spiders or crawlers) are programs (not humans) that visit web pages (aka documents) and download information.

If their intentions are good, sometimes such robots, sometimes such robots are welcomed. But sometimes they are not welcomed because they perform unwanted activities.

It is important for us to know if a request for a web page or a submission to add or update lyrics is being made by a human or by a robot program. If the request is made by a program, we want to know why and by whom.

One of the most important reasons we need to know this information is because it is necessary for us to comply with copyright requirements that mandate us to prevent the distribution and usage of lyrics without compensation to the lyrics copyright owners.

RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication (aka Rich Site Summary). It is a simple markup (translate) language that is often used for distributing or making programs available for retrieving web page content such as site news and updates. More technically it is a simple form of XML.

Mp3Lyrics uses RSS feeds to make available to you lyrics updates and new lyrics. You can find our RSS feeds on http://www.mp3lyrics.org/rss/.

XML is short for Extensible Markup Language (aka the SML method). This is a method used to markup (translate) data (usually text) (aka the messages) into logical parts. The marked-up data can then be understood by other programs.

The XML method is flexible and its chief purpose is to pass data messages amongst systems (such as programs, services, processes, servers, companies, etc.) without having to worry about how the other system wants the data to be formatted. In this way one program can communicate with many other programs by passing data (aka messages) to the other systems that is formatted as XML. XLM can add/include instructions on how the XML is to be interpreted by the receiving program if it does not already know.

RSS is very simple compared to other uses of XML. HTML has similarities, but it cannot be classified as XML because HTML cannot be passed along with definitions on how other services should interpret the data.

In other words, the receiver of a message or document formatted in HTML interprets it in a way that the sender has no control over, while messages or documents in XML allow the receiver to interpret the data in a way the sender desires.

Yes, we have two Twitter accounts:

1. Twitter.com/Mp3Lyrics were we send automatic tweets about all newly added and updated lyrics. There can be up to a hundred tweets a day on that account. You can also receive notifications about all new and updated lyrics by subscribing to our RSS feed on http://www.mp3lyrics.org/rss/

2. Twitter.com/Mp3Lyrics_org we tweet manually about site updates that may be of interest to you. An example of what you might find here is the press release about our cooperative agreement with Gracenote. (Click this Gracenote link to read more about our agreement and cooperation with Gracenote.

Yes, we have a Facebook fan page where we put news and information about Mp3Lyrics that we believe is of interest to site users.

The Mp3Lyrics Facebook fan page can be found on www.facebook.com/pages/Mp3-Lyrics/163386533582.

Lyrics (aka the text or the words to a song,) as they apply to Mp3Lyrics, means words to (a) song(s) for reading.

Mp3Lyrics provides the words to many songs. However, we do not provide music, only the visual composition of words that make up a song.

On Mp3Lyrics we have a system that controls all the different versions of the lyrics that have been submitted for each song. This system enables us to keep track of and compare the corrections that have been submitted and approved. This feature has been very popular and often used by our visitors

All visitors on Mp3Lyrics have the option of submitting corrected lyrics to a song. Corrections can be anything from spelling errors found in the text to the words being different from what they have learned or heard. All suggestions are reviewed and if acceptet, are posted as the latest version of the lyrics, unless the song is controlled by a company known as Gracenote.

If the corrected lyrics are for a song that falls under the control of Gracenote, then the latest version of a user-submitted correction will become the second latest version, because of an agreement with Gracenote to always show their version as the latest version.

The default setting for Mp3Lyrics is to display the latest version of the lyrics on the song's web page, unless the song is controlled by a company known as Gracenote. (Click on this Gracenote link to read more about our agreement and cooperation with Gracenote.)

As an example if you look at "I Left Something Turned on at Home" by Trace Adkins (song is that not controlled by Gracenote), you will see that the latest user-submitted is on the top and has the highest version number.

On the other hand, if the song is controlled by Gracenote, you will see Gracenote's version as the latest version. You can tell if a song was submitted by Gracenote because their logo will appear after the lyrics and any pictures or music videos.)

Such is the case with the song "Hot Mama" by Trace Adkins. "Hot Mama" is a Gracenote-controlled song, the most recent version of the song submitted by a user, can be seen as the previous version by pressing the big orange box above the lyrics and clicking on the previous version's number.

It is important to note that many people think that the user-submitted lyrics are sometimes more accurate than the ones submitted by Gracenote). For that reason, if you are planning on submitting corrected lyrics to a song, and the song is controlled by Gracenote, please compare the text between Gracenote's version and the previous version of the song before submitting your corrections, because many times the corrections have already been made by another user.

As an example see the previous version of "I Left Something Turned on at Home" by Trace Adkins.

By maintaining all the versions in this way, each of the different versions of the lyrics do not require a different URL and you can compare the differences in the text between the different versions of the lyrics.

On Mp3Lyrics we save every version of any lyrics that have been submitted and can compare the different versions through an overview feature. This overview feature allows users to perform on-line comparisons of the differences in the text between the different versions of the lyrics.

As an example, if you want to compare the differences in the latest version of the lyrics to Miley Cyrus - Party in the U.S.A, and the second latest version, click the link here and when the web page with the lyrics for "Party in the U.S.A." appears, click on the orange box above the lyrics. You will see that as of this writing, the latest version of the song is #16, and the second latest version is #15. Since this is av Gracenote-controlled song, version #16 is Gracenote's version and #15 is the latest version submitted by a user. By choosing each of the versions in succession, you can see the history of all the changes to the lyrics.

Another example, if you want to compare the differences in version #1 and version #2 of the lyrics to Miley Cyrus - Party in the U.S.A, you will find such a comparision here:
www.mp3lyrics.org/m/miley-cyrus/party-in-the-usa/diff1-2.html
Or say you want a comparison between the latest version and version #10 of the same lyrics, you will this find on:
www.mp3lyrics.org/m/miley-cyrus/party-in-the-usa/diff-10.html

In lyrics on Mp3Lyrics with text in [brackets], means that the text is not part of the lyrics but is information for the reader on how to read the lyrics or to better understand the song. Note, the text inside the bracket is displayed in italic.

One example is: [Fade], which tells you that the music fades into silence. Another example is [Instrumental] describing that at this point in the song there is an instrumental performance (without singing).

Other examples include: [Laughter], [Gunshot], [Echo], [Fiddle], [Yodeling], [Violin], [Guitar Solo], [Chorus] and [Verse 1]

As it pertains to music, the definition of a chorus (aka refrain) is:

• A group of persons singing in unison.
• A group singing choral parts in connection with soloists or individual singers, such as in an opera or oratorio.
• A piece of music for singing in unison.
• The part of a song that recurs at intervals, usually following each verse.

On Mp3Lyrics, you’ll often see the word [Chorus] (in brackets) used to represent the part of a song which is repeated at other places in the song.

Later, when the horus is supposed to be repeated in the song, you may see one of two things:

1. You may see the word [Chorus] displayed but not see the words of the chorus following it. This indicates that the words of the previously shown chorus are to be repeated at this point in the song.

2. You may see the word Chorus displayed followed by the words to the chorus (usually with minor changes.)

A verse is, usually, that part of a song following the introduction and preceding the Chorus. Lyrics often contain a verse where the lead singer, soloist, or group of singers, sing without break for some time, followed by the chorus or an instrumental prelude, (which is often indicated on Mp3Lyrics as [Instrumental break] and then another verse. Generally this format of verse, chorus, verse, chorus, break, verse, chorus continues to the end of the song. It is important to note that not every song follows this format.

On Mp3Lyrics, we try to indicate the difference between the verses, choruses, bridges etc by putting one blank line between each of them. Sometimes, however, user-submitted lyrics don't have a blank line separating the verses etc., even if the song clearly consists of several distinct parts.

Help from our visitors in this effort is appreciated. If you see a song that does not have blank lines between its various parts, and you know the song please consider contributing corrections.

Sometimes you will see[Verse #] in the lyrics to a song. This is just an additional bit of information, telling you the number of verses.

A medley is a collection of related songs played together as a single piece; a musical composition consisting of a series of songs (or other musical pieces) from various sources. On Mp3Lyrics you can find medleys posted as their own complete lyrics.

When we index our data it means that we make the contents of a song searchable. More specifically, when the lyrics to a song are being indexed we organize all of the songs on Mp3Lyrics so that you can find them by supplying either the artist name, song name or some of the key words contained in the lyrics.

We index our database once every week. This means that when you add new lyrics or update existing lyrics it may take up to a week before your submissions will be searchable on http://search.mp3lyrics.org/. We are currently working to improve this, and soon all new lyrics submissions and updates will be searchable immediately when accepted.

It is not possible to download music or mp3 files or any other sound files from Mp3Lyrics.

Mp3Lyrics only offers song lyrics (together with pictures of many artists and album covers).

Gracenote is a company that provides lyrics to Mp3Lyrics as well as many other music web sites. Gracenote and Mp3Lyrics cooperate by sharing the advertising revenue that we generate with the correct (copyright) owner(s) of the lyrics that you view on this web site. Lyrics delivered by Gracenote are under copyright control and cannot be printed, redistributed or copied by users.

To know if a song is delivered to Mp3Lyrics by Gracenote and is under copyright control, look for the Gracenote logo at the end of the song text and after any artist(s) photos and any music videos that may appear on the song page. Example: A-Ha Lyrics - Take on Me.

To learn more about the partnership between Gracenote and Mp3Lyrics you could look at the press release about this partnership at: Musicmass in the Media.

Not all lyrics that you can read on this web site have been delivered by Gracenote. Nevertheless, Mp3Lyrics pays a royalty for all lyrics that we display.

We recommend that you read FAQ #37 & FAQ #38 for a complete discussion about how the history of lyrics corrections are stored on this web site, how to compare lyrics versions and what to do before submitting corrections to us when Gracenote has control of a song.

Update: Early 2013 the gracenote services that Mp3Lyrics used was taken over by LyricFind. Mp3Lyrics does now cooperate with LyricFind for license and royalty sharing.

ToneFuse is a marketing and monetization company centered around music. Mp3Lyrics and ToneFuse cooperate closely for utilizing the diversified traffic volumes on mp3lyrics. If you are an ad agency or a media buyer, please contact ToneFuse at www.tonefuse.com. A ToneFuse Music representative will provide more information about advertising with us.

Copyright is an exclusive right to publish and sell lyrics usually granted to the creator of the original lyrics and may be given, sold or willed to others.

If you want more information on copyrights click on the copyright link or this link to Terms of Service.

A license is a legal document that gives a music web site, among other types of song purveyors, permission to print and show to their users the lyrics to copyrighted songs.

Mp3Lyrics operates in cooperation with Gracenote to preserve copyright owners’ rights and interests. Part of this cooperation involves paying royalty to the correct owners of the copyrights, and in turn Mp3Lyrics is authorized to display those copyrighted lyrics to its users.

www.mp3lyrics.org is in this way officially a legal lyrics web site. The license is a legal document giving Mp3Lyrics permission to show you lyrics on this web site.

Royalty is amount of money pais to copyright holders for use of their original material.

Mp3Lyrics shares advertising revenue with the original owners of the copyrighted lyrics that visitors are reading. This is accomplished through a cooperation between Mp3Lyrics and Gracenote. (Also see FAQ #51, "What is a license.")

LyricFind is a company that proceds lyrics to this and other websites. Mp3Lyrics and LyricFind cooperate to share revenue generated as a royalty to copyright owners of lyrics that may be displayed on Mp3Lyrics. You can read more about copyright here

The license we have from Gracenote (see FAQ #51 and FAQ #52) assures that copyrighted lyrics are lawfully posted on www.mp3lyrics.org. The pictures on Mp3Lyrics are displayed in a similar association with WENN.

If you have found lyrics on Mp3Lyrics that you believe are posted illegally, you can report the situation by clicking on this link: contact. You should include the URL where you have found the wrongly posted or infringing lyrics.

To save Mp3Lyrics and yourself from superfluous work, please keep in mind that Mp3Lyrics has a license with Gracenote to display lyrics on this web site. We say this because it has been our experience that in the past, when we have received reports about "illegally" posted lyrics, it usually turns out that the claimant (the person reporting the "illegal" use) is mistaken.

We recommend that you read FAQ #49, “What is Gracenote?” for a discussion about copyrighted lyrics on this web site, and how to determine if we have permission to print a particular song’s web site before submitting “illegal” posting to us.

Copyright infringement is the illegal use of copyrighted material. Infringement can occur when copyrighted material (aka: intellectual property) is reproduced without permission from the owners or agents of the owners.

Intellectual property (aka: IP, should not be confused with internet protocol) refers to lyrics that are copyrighted by the owner of the original work.

You may not print, redistribute or copy lyrics from Mp3Lyrics if they are copyrighted.

On pages that contain copyrighted lyrics both the printing and highlight function are disabled.

You can find out if the lyrics to a song you are viewing are under copyright control by looking for the Gracenote logo at the end of the song text (aka: lyrics) and after any artist(s) photos and any music videos that may appear on the song page.

For more information on how you can use the lyrics you read on Mp3Lyrics, see Terms of Service.

You may not print, redistribute or copy lyrics from Mp3Lyrics if they are copyrighted.

On pages that contain copyrighted lyrics both the highlighting and right click functions are disabled.

You can find out if the lyrics to a song you are viewing are under copyright control by looking for the Gracenote logo at the end of the song text (aka: lyrics) and after any artist(s) photos and any music videos that may appear on the song page.

For more information on how you can use the lyrics you read on Mp3Lyrics, see Terms of Service.

WENN is short for World Entertainment News Network and is a company that provides us with news and pictures of artists and bands.

Gabriella Cilmi pictures are examples of an artist’s picture archive.

Pictures of artists and bands on Mp3Lyrics may be copyrighted and you should not copy pictures from this web site.

If you want to use a picture you have seen on Mp3Lyrics you can link directly to the URL of the picture on Mp3Lyrics from a blog or your own web site.

If you want to print or use a picture you have seen on Mp3Lyrics for a non-profit purpose (e.g. a school project), it is OK to print the pictures you find on Mp3Lyrics if you include the source ("Mp3Lyrics" or the actual URL where you found the picture on Mp3Lyrics, together with the printed picture.

In fact, we encourage visitors to link pictures found on Mp3Lyrics directly to their blog or web page.

Read more about pictures by clicking on the following links: copyright and WENN, and pictures copyright.

Aka is short for also known as. It means that something (a word or expression) may also be known under some other definition.

Some examples:

• A sequence of letters without a space (that makes sense to a person), which would be shown as a sequence of letters without a space (aka: word)...
• A “chorus” may also be known as a refrain... would be shown as, chorus (aka: refrain)
• A car may also be known as a vehicle... would be shown as car (aka: vehicle)
• A Chief Executive Officer (CEO) may also be known as the boss... would be shown as Chief Executive Office (CEO (aka: the boss)...

Suggestions to this FAQ are welcomed. Visitor's feedback is important to us, and we keep all feedback in mind when improving services on Mp3Lyrics.

If you have a question that is not answered on this page that you disagree with, let us know about it, so we may investigate and possibly update this page.

Please keep in mind the purpose of this FAQ is to keep it vital and to that en, your contributions and suggestions are always read and appreciated.

When you browse the artist name or song title on Mp3Lyrics you have the option to use strict (aka: accurate or exact) listing versus loose (aka: dense or inexact) listing.

Switching between these listing methods may make it easier and/or quicker for you to find what you are looking for.

When searching using the strict listing method, the content of the archive will be listed with results that exactly match the string of characters you input. This method limits the results quicker than when using the loose listing method, and it requires that you be more precise in your navigation in the archive. You will therefore see more options (an alphabet including numbers 0-9 if they exist in lower tiers of the archive) to narrow your browsing specification.

When searching using the loose listing method, the content of the archive will be listed with results that are based on the loose matching of characters from each archive, but you will have less precision options to narrow your browsing.

Lets take the artist "1-800 Zombie" under the alphabetically listed archive as an example: When you browse strict, it will only be listed under the 1* archive (this also applies to lower tier archives, such as 18*). When browsing strict "1-800 Zombie" will not be listed under the Z* archive, and you will be given options to narrow your browsing including numbers 0-9. If you browse loose, it will be listed under the Z* archive, and you will not be given the option to narrow your browsing based on numbers 0-9. The same logic also applies to browsing song title archives.

Strict VS Loose browsing methods apply to all archives (artist name or song title) regardless of the ordering of the content in the archive (alphabetically, by popularity, by time added, by activity, or by time updated). See the very top of this page (or any other page on Mp3Lyrics) to find browsing tabs to access all archives.

The artist archives are listed dense (not strict) by default, and the song archives are listed strict by default.

At the top of every page on Mp3Lyrics, you will find tabs that will take you to an archive for browsing when clicking on them.

The purpose of browsing archives on Mp3Lyrics is to find the content in our database without searching. By only clicking in our archives with your mouse you will be able to get to any artist/band or song that exist on mp3lyrics. (the alternative to browsing is to use the search form to find content on Mp3Lyrics).

There are two main archives to choose among:

1. Artist/Band Name Archives
2. Song Title Archives

Both of these two main archives consist of different listing methods (sub-archives). Each listing method of the main archives contain the same information, but the content is listed in a different order. Some users prefer one listing method before another to quickly find the lyrics to an artist/band or song they are looking for.

The following listing methods apply to artist/band name and song title respectively:

1. Artist/Band Name:
   • Browse Artist/Band Alphabetically
   • Browse Artist/Band by Popularity
   • Browse Artist/Band by Activity
2. Song Title:
   • Browse Song Title Alphabetically
   • Browse Song Title by Popularity
   • Browse Song Title by Time Added
   • Browse Song Title by Time Updated

In each archive a maximum of 20 items are displayed. If the archive contain more items, you will get to them by clicking the "Next" link in the archive. If the archive contain 20 or less items, the next link will not be displayed.

In each archive options for narrowing your browsing may be given depending on where content is archived further down the archive tier hierarchy. These "narrow archive" options appear to you as links that will take you down in the archive tier hierarchy. This method quickly limits the content available, and will help you find what you are looking for as fast as possible. To further speed up your browsing you can learn the difference between strict VS loose browsing methods on Mp3Lyrics.

All archives on Mp3Lyrics are structured in a tier layered hierarchy. The first/beginning layer being Tier 1, the next layer Tier 2, the third layer Tier 3 etc, until you reach the bottom of the tier hierarchy. This is based on what content is contained within the archive you browse.

When you browse the artist name or song title archives on mp3lyrics you may have the option to narrow your browsing based on any of the character sequences that can be listed on top of the browsing pages.

When you click these narrow suggestions you will enter an archive where all the content listed begins with the characters you clicked on the previous page. This way you narrow you browsing to the tier below the current archive you are viewing.

Below is an example of how different tiers in the artist archive beginning on "A" is layered:

1. a
2. aa
3. aaa

The above browsing only took three clicks to reach the end of the tier hierarchy. This method is used for both artist and song archives, and it works with any alphanumeric letters. Here's another, perhaps more practical or realistic example:

1. M
2. MI
3. MIC
4. MICH
5. MICHA
6. MICHAE

Which will eventually get you to artist "Michael Jackson" if that's who you're looking for :-)

The narrow-suggestions at the top of the browsing pages ceases to display once there is no more diversity in the archive. That is when you're at the end tier. There may still be many listings in the end tier, but they all start with the characters defining the tier.

When you add characters to your browse string, we say you narrow your browsing. When you remove characters from your browse string, we say you expand your browsing.

If there are more than 20 entries in one tier, they are listed on separate pages (all on the same tier). And they can be reached by clicking the "Next 20" button/link just above the current page/tier result list.

Narrowing your browsing means to be more specific in the browsing archive than the current browsing tier. When you narrow your browsing you enter a new archive, with less content than in the previous archive. The new archive you enter below the current tier is contained within the current tiers archive.

Example of narrowing your song title browsing (in the alphabetically listed archive):

1. tier lists all song titles: alphabetical song title archive
2. tier narrows to archive S*
3. tier narrows to archive SP*
4. tier narrows to archive SPA*
5. tier narrows to archive SPAC*
6. tier narrows to archive SPACE*
7. tier narrows to archive SPACEM*
8. tier narrows to archive SPACEMA*

The final (bottom) tier is an archive over all songs beginning with "Spacema", in this archive you can find several songs with titles: "Spaceman", "Space Man", "Space Manatee" and maybe more.

When you are browsing an archive on a tier that is not the top Tier you will have the option to expand your browsing to the archive on the tier above. Each tier below the top tier is contained within a tier above, and the only way to get to a tier below the current, is to narrow your browsing. When you have narrowed your browsing you can expand back to the tier above (which is the tier where you may have come from, unless you entered the current browsing tier from link outside the archive).

Below is an example where you expand from the alphabetically listed song title archive POKER*:

• POKER* is end/bottom tier 6 in this archive
• POKE* expands to tier 5
• POK* expands to tier 4
• PO* expands to tier 3
• P* expands to tier 2
• archive of all song titles expands to Top Tier 1

The method of expanding and narrowing applies to all artist archives and all song title archives, which you will get to by clicking the tabs on top of any page on Mp3Lyrics.

See also:

• wildcard search
• phrase search
• fuzzy search
• Search in an artists lyrics archive
• Text relevancy VS popularity boosted ranking

To simple search simply type what you look for in the search form at the top of any page on Mp3Lyrics, and click on search lyrics or press enter. This will perform a regular search on Mp3Lyrics, which will match your query with "Artist Name" or "Song Title" or the "Lyrics Text" or "Featuring".

If you want to be more specific you can search advanced by forcing a search only on one of these fields. This is done by prepending any of the following field names (and a colon:) to your query:

• artist:something to perform a search only mathing artist/band names
• song:something to perform a search only mathing song titles
• feat:eminem to perform a search only mathing featuring artist/band names
• text:example to perform a search only mathing text in lyrics

You can also combine fields to where you want to direct text in your query, some examples:

• artist:eminem
• artist:eminem song:love
• artist:eminem song:love feat:rihanna
• song:love feat:rihanna artist:eminem
• Feat:RiHanna ARTIST:eMinem sONg:LoVe

It is also possible to use phrase search'es when searching in a field, this may further limit your search. Examples:

• artist:michael jackson will return more results than
VS.
• artist:"michael jackson" will return less results (the words both have to exist, and come in the specified order)

Note that even when you force the search to a specific field, other fields may be highlighted if they match your query, but they are not included in the searching (when we look for documents related to your query).

If you prepend any other text string followed by a colon than the ones mentioned above, you will only be performing a regular (simple) search which includes all of your submitted text. (what you may mean should be a field name will not be a field name but part of your query).

To limit your search in other ways you can add quotes to a simple (regular) or advanced query

By default, in any type of search on Mp3Lyrics, except advanced searches, is applied a method called stemming. This is not the same as a fuzzy search even though it may look so at first glance. Stemming is when we match your query against what we think is the meaning of words. This means that you can write the words in your query in different grammatical ways, and we will try to match with the same words in lyrics that are written with the same or another grammatical structure. Some examples may explain it better :)

• sing
• singing
• sings

Are all interpreted as the same word (sing). The same logic applies to many other words. This is also applied to phrase searches

• "i know i standing in line"
• "i know i stand in line"

are both treated the same.

Fuzzy matching is a method we use to find songs related to your query even when there are no songs existing that contain any of the words you supply.

This method can be useful when you don't exactly remember how the words in a song you look for are spelled, so you type them wrong.

When a fuzzy search/match is performed you are notified about it in a red box at the top of the results page.

These are examples of query (queries) containing words that don't exist in any songs:

• Eminemm
• "Mikkel Jakksonn"
• Evanesense
• "Justin Beiber"
• "Enrike Eglicias"

Fuzzy matching is not applied in advanced searching

A phrase search is when you add "quotes" to your query. You can put your entire query in quotes, or part(s) of your query with quotes. The reason for doing this is to make sure that the documents (lyrics) we match your query against contain the words inside your phrase(s) in the same order as the way you specify. This is different from an query without quotes in the way that a query without quotes can return documents (lyrics) where the words does not have the same order as you specify.
It is only the " character that is valid in making phrases. And it only makes a phrase if you end the phrase with the same character. Note that this means that no other quote-looking characters are valid in making a phrase search. Examples of quote-looking, but invalid as quote characters are:
' ‘ ’ “ ” ` ´ ¨ « »

Examples of phrase searches and comparisons:

1. The Search: "i know i stand in line until you think you have the time"
   is an example of a phrase search.


2. The Search: i know i stand in line until you think you have the time
   is the same search as in 1. without quotes.


3. A search with some unquoted text and several quoted phrases:
   ring "love is a" taste of love "burning thing" cash


4. Combining "advanced" field specific search and quotes:
   song:"much love" VS song:much love

The wildcard character is *. Wildcard search is a method you can use if you don't remember part(s) of word(s) (or how to spell parts of a word). To perform a wildcard search you can replace the parts of your query where you don't remember the spelling of a word with the wildcard character. It can be better to include wildcards in words than leaving out the entire word because it can help in narrowing your search (result in less false hits/matches).

The wildcard character can be put at the beginning or end of words or in the middle of words. Let's say you are looking for the artist Dishwalla, but don't remember exactly how to spell their name. You can simply construct your query as

• d*walla
• dish*la
• dis*lla, or even
• *hwalla
• *walla
• dish*

As you can see the number of returned matches increase depending on how many letters you leave out, and for the last two example searches above you will have to navigate the result list for a while before you are returned hits from the actual band you were looking for.

This "wildchard" method can be used together with the field specific search method, so that you can specify which field to match the wildcard search on. E.g.:

• artist:dis* will match band "disturbed" before "dishwalla", but you will also find dishwalla.
• text:micha* jack* will match e.g. "Michael Jackson" within lyrics text, while only
• micha* jack* will match e.g. "Michael Jackson" in any field

When you search for lyrics the query is the text you supply, and we use it for matching against all the lyrics in our database to find the most relevant songs. The result is displayed to you in form of a list of artist names and song names and a lyrics text snippet for the documents that matched your query.

Genre, as it relates to lyrics means the type or category that a particular song is identified with. Typical genre categories are:

• Rock
• Pop
• Rap
• Hip Hop
• C&W (Country and Western)
• Jazz
• Blues
• R&B (Rhythm & Blues)
• Folk Music
• Reggae
• Soul
• Celtic
• Metal
• Dance
• Trance
• Techno
• Oldies
• Seasonal (e.g. Christmas songs)
• Parodies
• Novelty songs

Some songs can be classified as sub-genre types, e.g. Hard Rock, Blues Rock, Latin Jazz, Heavy Metal, Death Metal and Emo (a type of rock), amongst others. You may also encounter combinations of genres such as R&B/Pop, R&B/Rap and R&B/Hip Hop amongst others.

AGE apply to all songs and/or lyrics as well as all artists/bands on Mp3 Lyrics. Further, we operate with two different types of ages:

1. Age since Received on Mp3 Lyrics
2. Age since last Update/Change on Mp3 Lyrics

For songs and/or lyrics age since received indicate how old/new the song is because it tells you how long time ago the song was received/posted on Mp3 Lyrics.
For songs and/or lyrics age since changed tells you how long time ago a song was changed/updated/corrected on Mp3 Lyrics.

For artist/bands Mp3 Lyrics operate with one age only. It represents how long time ago the artist/band had a change (update or new song added) on Mp3 Lyrics to any of the songs in it's archive. We call this artist activity. If a song of an artist is changed, the artist activity age (date) is updated. If a new song to an artist is received, the artist activity age is updated. When the first song to an artist/band is received, the artist age will be the same as the age of the received song.

The age is displayed to you in form of the most recent of:

1. Right Now = Received/Updated less than 5 minutes old
2. XX Minutes = Received/Updated less than XX (max 60) minutes ago
3. XX Hours Ago = Received/Updated less than XX (max 24) hours ago
4. XX Days Ago = Received/Updated less than XX (max 7) Days ago
5. XX Weeks Ago = Received/Updated less than XX (max 5) weeks ago
6. XX Months Ago = Received/Updated less than XX (max 12) months ago
7. XX Years Ago = Received/Updated less than XX (no max limit) years ago

In this way, the age of a documents change time is displayed to you with higher precision the younger the age of a change, and less precision the older the age of a change. E.g. a change that was made "1 month, 2 days, 3 hour, 4 minutes ago" will only be displayed to you as "1 month ago" (until the change reaches the age of 2 months, when it will be displayed as 2 months old).

Mp3 Lyrics continuously receive new lyrics and lyrics updates, and so we will always have changes in our database that are younger than 1 week (usually always younger than 24 hours). This means that we will always have documents in our database with a change/receive age less than 1 week ago. On the front page of m3lyrics we display the most recent changes/submissions, and there will no be any documents with an age greater than one week. To save space on the front page we use the synonyms m for minutes, h for hours, d for days and w for weeks. Hence a m on the front page represents minutes and not months (there is a very little chance a document will be over 1 month old and displayed on the front page, and if that will ever be the case, the month synonym will be a capital letter "M" for Month and not a lower case letter "m" for minute)

A stanza is a unit (aka: part of, subdivision, section, grouping of lines) of lyrics, written or printed as a paragraph, equivalent to a verse (distinct from the refrain, or Chorus). aka: Rhymed lines repeated as a unit.

In songwriting, a bridge is an interlude that connects two parts of a song, and which creates a harmonic connection between those parts. The bridge usually differs from the verse and the chorus in its harmonic structure (aka: chord progression) and in its lyrics. Unlike a verse or chorus section, a bridge does not always contain lyrics and may be performed solely by the instrument section, in whole or in part. It is most likely a bridge when a verse or a chorus is expected but something that is musically and lyrically different from both the verse and the chorus is in its place.

Whenever you perform a regular search the result list will contain a green link for every artist on the list. This green link will take you to a part of our search engine that is narrowed to focus only on that artists lyrics archive. And example of where to search in Eminems lyrics archive only is http://www.mp3lyrics.org/Search/eminem/

After having performed a search (or a search in an artists archive), IF the result contain more than 10 hits, there will be an option to alter the ranking of the result list. This option is found between the "previous 10" and "next 10" buttons, on top of the result list. The default ranking method is matching your query with all lyrics in our database by pure text relevancy (analyzing the similarities between your query and the lyrics text). Pure text relevancy is not taking in to consideration how popular a song may be at the moment. If you choose to affect the ranking by including song popularity, you will most likely see that the resulting rank (aka search result list) is different. That is because we apply a songs current popularity score to the text relevancy score. (A songs current popularity score is a value we measure by seeing how well people like each song in our database).