How can I remember song lyrics for thousands of songs for years?

How can I possibly remember the words to a song I haven't heard for twenty years yet I can't remember to mail my sister's birthday card last week?

How can I remember song lyrics for thousands of songs for years?
It's not just repetition, it's emotional involvement and multipath association. The music is a very strong trigger for accessing the words. What's your trigger for mailing the card? Did you put it where you'd notice it while doing something else? Did you mail the card a dozen times while smelling cinnamon?
Reply:years of constant repetition.


Hey, you hear those songs over and over everyday on the same old stuff radio station, and sing along every time. You rmember the triggers in your brain based on the melody, the rhythm, and the words of a poem.


If you set your every day tasks to music, you would remember your "to do" list a lot easier. Wasn't it easier learning the alphabet using the alphabet song? Counting by 5's thanks to Schoolhouse Rock?


Well, okay, so you can't set your "to do" list to music. Second is to get a cubby hole box for your desk and number the cubbies 1 to 31 and put all your things and letters to mail that day in the cubby for that day. Then, every day check your cubby box for bills due, cards to be sent, lists of things to do, and simply reorganize your brain to pay more attention to big details like birthdays and less to "ear worms" of repetetive music loops repeating in your head as you hear snatches of songs along the way.

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