Folding a line of lyrics

[Geoff Horton]

I'm trying to set some music with _extremely_ long sets of words
attached to one reciting tone. Lilypond sees that, freaks, and sets
one measure per line, which doesn't look at all good. (2.9.27, OSX.)
I'm looking for a way to set up something like this in the lyrics:

"The first line would go like this
  and the second would continue here      and then the rest of the line"

I could do it by creating a dummy second verse with words only in that
one particular spot, but that doesn't sound like fun and would require
manual editing of the files after I run them through m4. Is there an
easier way?

Thanks,
Geoff