GeekTool is a Mac OSX preference pane application that allows you to redirect the output from files, commands and images onto your Mac desktop. One nice nice trick is to use this to capture the lyrics from the currently playing track in iTunes and display them on the desktop. The command to do this is shown below
osascript -e ”’tell application “iTunes” to set currentLyrics to the lyrics of the current track”’
To set this up open GeekTool and click on the New Entry button then change the type of entry to …