Midi-text-to-lyrics.zip extract and copy Midi text to lyrics.lua
In Reper menu Actions > Show Action List > New Action > Load script
paste in folder and open Midi text to lyrics.lua
select the midi item and run script.
If you open the midi in the editor and at the bottom select Text events.
EDIT: this will copy the events so you will still have text events as well as lyric events. It can be all changed if need be,
it's reading 1 text events and writes to 5 lyric events
-- Determine if this event is a lyric message 5 or text 1
--1 = Text
--2 = Copyright
--3 = Sequence/Track Name
--4 = Instrument
--5 = Lyric
--6 = Marker
--7 = Cue
--8 = Program
--9 = Device