You can do a google search to find thousands of high-profile lyrics sites that have been around for quite a while.

Remember that there was a lyrics archive on ftp.uwp.edu, and they got shut down. A guy named Dave Datta who IIRC also ran the Orchestral Manoevers in the Dark fan mailing list ran it. I wish I remembered what the details were, but amusingly until recently mirrors.aol.com had a mirror of it. It went away in the last few months.