I agree with Lampada, music is great for learning..... even if you are tired and not motivated to study, the music works. You hear a great song, or just a song that is played a lot on the radio etc - you understand parts of it, get curious about the bits you don't get and look up the translation. Many of us have used music when we learned English, and it works great for Russian too.

I keep meaning to start a thread where we post a video with the song and then two columns in table format, one with the original lyrics in Russian, and translation into English. Or some other language, alternatively if a Russian speaking person wants to have a go at translating the other way around - native speakers could then just take a look whether he translation is correct.

With lyrics there is a certain amount of poetry, or perhaps rhyming or word play involved.
Sometimes I find that I more or less understand all words, but I still don't get certain parts of the song because it doesn't make any sense.