I don't listen carefully to words either. I like to read them though. I catch phrases and sentences but I often don't really know exactly what the song is about if there is a story line. But I still like it quite well. I don't like great music with dumb lyrics, or bad translations etc. Best example is Oleana...horrible translated lyrics and probably not that great in Norwegian but the original fishing tune is glorious. For many people it is not a story thing but a sound thing so we listen to enough sound, which is words plus music, to I guess see if we like it.

I also don't like great words with poor tunes..best example for me, and I might not have heard the correct tune was about My heart's in the highland, following the deer etc..great words and not great tune in my opinion, but I could have heard the wrong tune. mg