If you have a permanent loop in an audio segment, using lyrics editor it obeys this permanent loop, but we need it to ignore this as we are trying to enter timecode , as there is no way to disengage this in the text editor it makes us go in to audio editor and disable it there, this then needs to be reinstated after finishing with the lyrics editor, now we might have a number of the loops programmed , this becomes tedious.
ST4 has the waveform to be able to disengage this mode but i think even in ST4 all programmed skips, stops, loops of audio segments should be ignored as we don't need them interfering with our programming of lyrics, a simple coloured waveform that allows us to select a segment or move the playhead is all we need.
ST3 should just ignore everything and just play through a song.