Dissection of a song

I have always been amazed at how a song loses juice when analyzed too thoroughly. This used to happen when we used to practice for our music performances. My favorite was (is!) a song named ‘Piya Basanti’.First, we had to learn the song by heart (literally).Then write down the lyrics. Then began the onerous task of preparing the background music. We only hat three instruments-guitar, drums, keyboard and the guitarist was a greenhorn (guess who!).The notes had to be simplified and adapted (for example guitar in place of flute).Chords had to be found for each line of the song. We had a small room in the college quadrangle where we used to practice. The practice used to go on till we came close to perfection (hee hee!).
Zoom forward-After the performance, when I listened to the song, I used to feel sick of the whole thing. The lines which had profound meaning and romanticism were just chords and notes to be negotiated with. Added to this was the agony of the results although the results were pretty good in some cases.
So, is it better to live like a dew drop on the leaf or live life in all its glory?!!