This is mostly with basic radio songs, as I definitely went out of my way to pay hard attention to Bob Dylan/Leonard Cohen/etc lyrics when I was growing up. I think I had viewed all of these regular hits as nonsense love songs without giving them the necessary attention. Most of them aren't exactly mind-blowing, but they still have something worthy to say.

It makes me heavily question my own attention span and perceptive abilities; like I've had my head stuck in the ground, ala ostrich.

"Isn't She Lovely?" by Stevie Wonder made me cry. I always thought it was just a straight-forward love song that for some reason had weird baby sounds in the background. I mean, can you blame me? We had that Aaliyah song. Instead, it's a beautiful moment of a father seeing his baby daughter for the first time. I'm tearing up as I write this and I don't even have any children (added emotional context for those that don't know: Stevie is blind).

"Breakfast at Tiffany's" by Deep Blue Something is a big one here because I never even understood what was being said phonetically, nor did I care to look it up. I would just sing along with the chorus until all of those pesky parts where I didn't know what he was saying happened. The song is about a guy begging the love of his life not to break up with him. She's completely lost feeling for him and points out that they have nothing at all in common, hoping that he'll just accept the fate of the relationship. In a last ditch effort, he pathetically reminds her that they both like the same movie, "Breakfast at Tiffany's." She shrugs it off and is like, "Yeah, I guess I remember we both liked it." It's kind of sad.

There are many more examples like this. Just wondering if any of you have experienced this as you've gotten older. I was such an art snob in my 20's and it's sad because I closed myself off from genuinely feeling things sometimes.