Reading Song Lyrics - do you do it, how and when?

Just yesterday in fact I looked up the lyrics to Van Morrison's "Linden Arden Stole the Highlights" cuz there is a word he strangles as he sings like "cllffftsstt", which turns out is "cleaved"

None of the above. I usually read the lyrics to old songs I think I know, as I am re-listening to them. With the advent of the rolling lyrics in Apple Music, I have been surprised at how often I have misunderstood lyrics in my life.

i read lyrics for clarification or if i am writing about the song and can't think of anything to say about the music lol

Voting I read the lyrics to songs after I know them, but NOT while listening, maybe will elaborate later, good posts so far.

With the advent of the rolling lyrics in Apple Music, I have been surprised at how often I have misunderstood lyrics in my life.

I don't know anything about Apple Music, but Spotify has a lyrics feature that is sometimes very wrong.

I do catch occasional mistakes, sometimes laughable ones. I didn't know Spotify had a lyrics feature.

I do find it amusing when the lyric booklet itself has mistakes, which does occasionally happen.

Wheatus's debut album shows the entire band sitting inside an IROC, and then on the line where he laments that this girl's boyfriend "(he) drives an IROC", the lyric sheet wrote it "he drives and I rock"

i don't know that i've ever sat down and just "read" a lyric sheet to myself, either before during or after listening. but definitely have opened them up to "look up" specific lyrics just after hearing them, your basic "wait, what was that?" moment. and in the process, i often notice other bits and get corrected on lyrics i've been hearing/singing wrong for ages.

I always thought it was "Prophetess" of love.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

I expected to hear more from the non-lyric readers, maybe they don't read threads either.

I was reading the lyrics to Operation: Mindcrime when I voted yesterday.