Trouble hearing lyrics in songs?

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When I'm listening to music, I generally don't "hear" the lyrics of about one line per verse.
I can hear some lines very clearly and pick out all the words, but some sound like a foreign language I've never heard before. The songs are in my native language, so I don't get why it happens, I just sing along with what I hear (I copy what it sounds like to me).
Does anyone else have this experience when listening to music?

Yeah, it's Auditory Processing Disorder. I can't understand music lyrics either. Same with movies without closed captioning.

Yup - I can't hear lyrics at all.

Often. Heavy metal and fast-paced rap is mostly completely unintelligible to me. Other songs I sometimes just substitute in my own words if I can't make them out.

While Auditory processing issues' would be the more accurate term, it's popularly called 'lyricosis'.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.p ... 0lyricosis (Although it's not a real disease as the urban dictionary purports)

But, I'm not so sure this is an Aspie thing. I mean, the way some of these people sing, how can you understand them or, the mix that buries everything into an unintelligible mess.

But, all my life, most lyrics have had to be looked up to get them right.

My first recollection is:

"Oh Minbus, has someone" instead of "All men must have someone"

Or

"Darkend growing figures move in visions from Herr Carlyle." instead of "Darkened rolling figures move through
Prisms of no color"

I gots millions of them.

Edit: Joke....

I never have understood the woman who sings on "The Great Gig in the Sky"

I do as well. Especially if the music is louder than the singing, it's difficult.
I've had many embarrassing experiences where I would sing the wrong lyrics to a song because I could not hear them correctly.

I also have trouble identifying lyrics in songs. Several times this has happened: my mom will sing a song lyric, and I'll be like, "How does she know it says that? Why don't they speak more clearly?"

I have the opposite problem. Not only do I hear lyrics okay...sometimes, i cannot mentally ESCAPE the lyrics I just heard.

I need to read the lyrics before I can understand them, or else it all sounds like gobbledegook.
It doesn't matter how many times I hear the song - it gets no clearer.
Thankfully captions are widely available now.
I enjoy watching movies I watched many times in the past with the addition of captions and marveling over how what I thought they said isn't in any way what they actually said

Oddly enough, I can usually understand vocoder type of lyrics.

An example would be the spoken parts of "The Raven" by Alan Parsons Project.

Yeah I don't hear the words either. I hear it mostly as a sound that goes with the music. I can hear every other instruments playing in the songs though. Even the ones that most people don't hear cause they're caught up in the lyrics.

I have that problem too, especially if the melody sounds unusual or the pace of the song is really fast. I'm usually able to focus on the melody and rhythm very well though

I think a lot of people don't quite understand lyrics. And a lot of lyrics get misheard. There's a few websites devoted to misheard lyrics.

Personally I usually have to read the lyrics to know what they are in most cases. And then sometimes need to go a step further and read what the song is supposed to be about.

I don't understand most lyrics when combined with music, especially loud music.

Tell me about it. There was a song called 'Cuddly Toy' that everybody thought was senseless, feel good pop. Turn out is was about a gangbang on a young teenage girl....wrapped up in a bouncy, senseless, feel good pop melody LOL....

"According the CD's liner notes, this song was about "a Hell's Angels gang-bang" and the Screen Gems execs were livid when they learned, belatedly, that the group had put one over on them. It's not like the lyrics didn't point that way, though."
http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=6788

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fS19nOs212I

Apparently, this is common enough to warrant its own trope page: Mondegreen - TV Tropes