Adding lyrics to an unmelodied score

What is the best method for adding lyrics to a score when the melody is not known? Guitar player, no keyboard or melody deciphering skills. My present method is to create a midi track and use the keypad to time where the words go. Is there a better/more efficient way? The piano score defaults to whole rests and Lyric tool doesn't tab nor does it choose to put a lyric where a rest is.

I have also tried creating a midi track from the vocal track and adding lyrics to that, pretty sketchy results were had. Wanted to put my vocal on the bass clef.

This is probably better served in the Composition and Creativity sub-forum.

 

Are you talking about lyrics or melody? Two distinct, though related, things.

Thanks, I am attempting to create a "lead sheet" with lyrics and chords that a guest musician could follow while recording tracks, but thanks I'll check the other forum for help.

I suppose you could just enter a melody at least for the rhythm of the lyrics, even if the notes don't have a pitch. You could use special note heads like x for example.

Thanks, I finally used "Guitar Tab" style and entered sixteenth notes to the end of song. Now I can tab and drop lyrics on the sixteenth fraction of the bar. Oh, and made a template for future.