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+### Configuration
+
+To avoid storing the API key in source control, clientToken in the
+lyrics_engine is using a placeholder value. You'll need to replace this
+before building
+
+* `GENIUS_CLIENT_TOKEN`: The Client token for your genius API client
+
 ## Installing from source
 
 Builds lyricli in release configuration and copies the executable as