Refreshing less on the fly

Question

I'm writing a script in which I pass the output of a function to less, wait for some time, and then kill less. All of this done inside a loop. This makes it look like less is updated on the fly. This is my script:

#!/usr/bin/env bash

for i in {0..5}; do
    echo $i | less -c &
    pid=$!
    sleep 2
    kill $pid &>/dev/null
done

This works as expected, but the terminal kind of becomes unresponsive (keystrokes are not visible for instance) after this. What am I doing wrong?

EDIT: Okay, I think the way I asked the question was confusing. I'm trying to write a script which scrapes lyrics off a website according to the current song in music player. The way I want to do this, I'll keep this script running in a screen session, and I want it to auto-update every 30s or so. The finall script would look something like:

function get_lyrics()
{
    # function which gets the lyrics based on current song
}

while true; do
    song=$(get_lyrics)
    echo "$song" | less -c &
    pid=$!
    sleep 30
    kill $pid &>/dev/null
done

Answer 1

Create a script file and put the following in there. It will write lyrics on a file /tmp/lyrics

while true; do
    get_lyrics >/tmp/lyrics
    sleep 30
done

Now, send that script in the background and issue the following, which will do what you are trying to do, but in a cleaner way.

watch -n 30 less -c /tmp/lyrics