It never gets old. There is always a stone unturned, another meaning to find underneath in an innocent looking text. What's yawningly literal may turn out to be profound and vice versa.
Cases in point:
Went a Jason Mraz concert where he shed a new light on a song that I've heard a million times before. "Make it mine" talks about being lifted away to a table at the Gratitude cafe. I believed Gratitude cafe to be an imaginary place where people happily bob amidst clouds, watching over the big picture that is their life. Turns out that it's an actual cafe in San Francisco, complete with lattes, sandwiches, and tip jars.
Also found out that Mr. Humpty Dumpty wasn't such an empty egg after all. There are heavy political meanings behind his "falling" and "crashing" that coincide with what had been happening in England during that time period. All Poindexters unite and Google it!
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