I pick up some lyrics fairly quicklu. It depends how clearly the vocalist enunciates. I actually pick up foreign language lyrics well. I have no idea why. Sometimes I can remember them better than English lyrics. Of course the thing about music is that when I'm listening to music with lyrics that's all I can be doing. I can listen to classical or any other non-vocal music when typing though. So my full focus is on the music most of the time. I make sure to not have any background noise because for one thing it ruins perfectly good music and for another I can't understand a bit of the lyrics if someone is being noisy.
