So many messages appear on threads for song lyrics from named recordings. Now and then the recordings may not be recent or findable, but they often seem to be available easily enough. Indeed, a couple of recent threads confirm that the lyric seekers have the recording to hand! Why don't they just listen to the song, and learn it? That's kind of the way most songs used to be learned. Have some people lost their aural memories, and must rely on their visual memories only, visualising the lyric as they sing it? And they cannot use that old trick of playing the song a few times, scribbling down the text and thereby helping fix it in the brain. Or are the recordings so oddly mixed that the lyrics cannot be comprehended? I truly would like to know.