How important is meaning in lyrics to you?

There’s a song by James Blunt called “I Really Want You”. The title seems to give away the meaning of the song and the chorus is pretty straightforward. But then in the verses we have:

Many prophets preach on bended knee
Many clerics wasted wine
Do the bloodied sheets on the cobbled streets mean
I have wasted time?

They say a million people bow and scrape
To an effigy of gold
I saw life begin and the ship we’re in
And history unfold.

These lyrics don’t seem to match with the rest of the song and I’m skeptical if they even had an intended meaning. But I still love the sound of these lyrics. The words are like art, even if there was no intended meaning.

Additionally, the song “White Winter Hymnal” by Fleet Foxes with its mysterious lyrics about bloodied snow and little kids with severed heads and strawberries in the summertime was the subject of much discussion until the band revealed that the song had no intended meaning and it was more about harmony.

That didn’t bother me. A person can assign their own meaning and the sound of the words themselves are part of the art of the song. But what about you? Would you feel ripped off if you found out a supposedly “deep” song of yours had no intended meaning?