My Land

There are a lot of interpretations about love, but I think it has a more literal meaning: someone took his land, and he has come to reclaim it.

//My own land has closed its gates on me //All alone in world, it's scaring me //I am here to prove you wrong //I'm accused of something I live for

In the past he was thrown out of his homeland and spent time elsewhere. He returns to prove his innocence.

//In my dreamland, there's some who understands //A friendly soul, trusting life in my hands //Yes, I gave it all I can //Now it's invaded by a stranger

Even though he was exiled, he still held an idealistic view of his land ("my dreamland"), and held the belief that not everyone thought he was guilty. However, when he returns to his homeland and seeks this person, he sees that someone else has taken over. In this case, the "friendly soul" was his wife or a woman he loved, and he returns to see that someone else has taken over his role as the man of the house.

//Keep in mind what you have heard today //You might find that you're not so brave //Are you man enough, carry the load all alone //When other have your home

This seems like the narrator talking to younger man. He remembers when he was a hotheaded youth who thought that he could win any fight, but he has gained wisdom in exile and is telling the younger person that it's easy to be a tough guy in theory, but things are different when you're placed in the reality of the situation.

//I'm a true patriot, you are my land, //you have my soul, you have all I had //Now I am here, and I want it all back

This makes me think that the crime he was exiled for was actually a war crime, or was seen as a crime but he viewed it as a necessary action to protect his homeland. perhaps he was a soldier in a losing war, and had to leave the country after his military lost, to spare his life, while his lover remained behind. Enough time has passed that he would be unrecognizable as a former soldier to most people, so he venture back home to see how everything has changed.

//In my dreams, I climb the hills I see //and let a gentle breeze lead me to //plains I once have seen and //Clear blue sky, I swim in lakes I find //I build a house right there //that you can't take away //I am here to claim my land //you can't keep me away, forever, ever

He still has an idolized view of what his country was like, before the war, and is determined to reclaim his land both in the sense of becoming a citizen again, and more literally in that his old home was razed and burned to the ground, and now strangers occupy the land.