Question about left-aligning syllables at beginning of lines

[Carl Peterson]

I know this question has been posed before on this list, but either there wasn't a definitive answer that I could find or I just couldn't understand it. I know that I can manually trigger left-aligning syllables at the beginning of lines, using

 

\once \override LyricText #'self-alignment-X = #LEFT

 

However, is there a way to tell Lilypond to do this with the first syllable of every line?

 

Thanks,

Carl