Rainmaker

Emmelie said the song is about a tribe joining together to call upon the rainmaker to make their land blossom again. But on a more general level the rainmaker can be anything or anyone – it is about coming together and helping each other out. The song is used as the JoinUs song for the Eurovision Songfestival.

My interpretation of the lines:

First couplet: The land of the tribes is dried out, so they need rain to make the seeds come out.

Refrain: "Over the mountains, higher Where would you find us? Higher Over the mountains, higher Where would you find us?

Oh, I hear, hear the echo of your drums It’s in your hands, let the rain dance I feel, feel the power of your song It’s in your call, let the rain fall"

Refrain: The tribes meet each other on the mountains and sing a song for the rainmaker. The rainmaker hears the song and indicates that it is in their hands.

Second couplet:

"One love carried by the wind One love glowing on our skin Join us when the sun is high It only takes one love to open up the sky"

This part is about unity and coming together to build something together. In the case of these tribes they need to work together to make the rainmaker come, and make it rain. Just as Emmelie said.

And this part of the refrain; "Make it rain, make it rain Rainmaker, oh oh, oh oh Make it rain, make it rain Rainmaker, oh oh, oh oh"

I would like to believe it is the actual song the tribes sing to call the rainmaker.

I like the symbolism in the song, and the (sort of) parable of tribes calling a rainmaker. Just as Emmelie said, it could be about anything, where joining and make or build something together is important/the goal.

(Please excuse any mistakes in my English, it is not my native language)