It's funny. I've been thinking about not hearing or remembering lyrics since reading this thread, and one lyricist whose lyrics I do hear is Cole Porter

Since reading the Cole Porter thread I have been hearing the words of the song as an earworm. Although, if I can look lyrics up and see them written out - i.e. the visual cue - I have more chance of remembering some of them.

As an aside, I can't understand the lyrics of a lot of recent pop songs, but that might be because they don't all enunciate as well as the singers of previous eras, but also because some of their thought processes when writing the lyrics seem to be a bit scrambled, in my opinion. But that is another thread topic, I guess.

John MacKenzie, a lot of managers and some of my peers at my workplace have "delusions of adequacy". Thanks for the terminology. I'll try to resist throwing it around willy nilly and getting myself into trouble.