I'm the first to admit that I can't be as good as Tolkien, and a movie can never be as good as Tolkien.
I never understood a word John Cassavetes said. And I think he did that deliberately.
Once you really get into a song, other than just listening to it, it forces you to go 'oh, they did this. I never would have thought of doing that,' when you deconstruct it. It's something you really can't do sometimes when you're just listening to a song. You have to really get into it.