Some of the blank lines are needed for the (short) instrumental portions, IMO, but the rest were there just so it looked sane in the XMMS singit plugin. (which highlights a line, then moves to the next one, in this case a blank, when that hits.)

Nothing seemed special about the just over 1 second delays between the lyric before, the blank line, and again to the lyric after; Not even something that should reduce to the same timestamp.

I was actually doing to use some printfs and debug to stdout.