Have you ever misunderstood the meaning of a song?

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29. EWF - Reasons

I guess not really On Topic - Whoops

From the first time I heard it and forever since - until fairly recently (Maybe 5 years ago) - thought it was a very deep song about a love that was / is undefinable, and loving someone after you are past the point of "infatuation" and you start loving all the things about them, the good and the bad, and your REASONS for loving them in a sense FADE because you LOVE their ENTIRETY, literally everything about them.

Then read somewhere an interview, with I think it was Maurice White , and come to find out, it was literally about a one night stand! That the lyrics were pretty much literal, Reasons wanted to be with / get with each other start to fade, and the fear was actually fallin' for that 1 night fling

In the interview (which I cannot locate - dam-nit) he said so many people have approached EWF over the years talking about how that was their wedding song and how deep and beautiful it was, and that he was thinking "Wedding song? It is about a 1 night stand!"