I'm trying to set two verses. Verse 1 has an extra note, and it's no problem to get rid of it in verse 2 with \skip. The problem is that the word in verse 2 is actually a hyphenated word, so a hyphen of some sort _must_ appear.
Using \skip won't work because a lyric hyphen doesn't like having a skip at the end. Using a blank space (as shown in my example above) doesn't work because the hyphen decides it doesn't need to be there and goes away altogether.
But adding either a " " or a \skip produces error messages--apparently hyphens are finicky about what must appear at either end. A mailing list search revealed that creating a fake melody line and assigning it to DevNull is not a highly-regarded option, which is just as well because I haven't yet figured out how to make that work.
Am I stuck with specifying durations manually for the verse? Should I forge bravely ahead and try to figure out DevNull? Or is there something obvious I'm missing?