How do you mean that Five, coming out of your shell and being introduced to the bigger world?
I've always thought that it's about migration, or maybe refugees, and maybe especially about african people. About how they come from their own lifes, their world, in a total different world, with people who are not interested in them and don't appreciate their special identity and culture. He is very happy and proud with his life, but the people from the country where he ends up don't understand what is special about him, and they prejudice immediately everything that is different about him. They are racists too, because they call him a clown and a monkey, so to me that sounds that they don't see him as a real person, but something less. Just because they judge him in advance and don't even try to get to know him.
In the last part, I get the idea that he went back to his hometown and his own life, where he feels good and where no people reject him or ridicule him.
Maybe it's meant to people who want to go to the north to look for a better life there, to tell them that the image of the rich, nice west is not so nice at all as they think.
Touché! That's what I see in the lyrics too. The last part to me means that after the sadness of not being special anymore, he realizes that despite the fact that "nobody wants to be in my place instead of me" could be actually good; no matter what the (rather racist) people in the big town think, he´s still a special human being and his culture is just as important as any other else.
Touché! That's what I see in the lyrics too. The last part to me means that after the sadness of not being special anymore, he realizes that despite the fact that "nobody wants to be in my place instead of me" could be actually good; no matter what the (rather racist) people in the big town think, he´s still a special human being and his culture is just as important as any other else.
How do you mean that Five, coming out of your shell and being introduced to the bigger world?
I've always thought that it's about migration, or maybe refugees, and maybe especially about african people. About how they come from their own lifes, their world, in a total different world, with people who are not interested in them and don't appreciate their special identity and culture. He is very happy and proud with his life, but the people from the country where he ends up don't understand what is special about him, and they prejudice immediately everything that is different about him. They are racists too, because they call him a clown and a monkey, so to me that sounds that they don't see him as a real person, but something less. Just because they judge him in advance and don't even try to get to know him. In the last part, I get the idea that he went back to his hometown and his own life, where he feels good and where no people reject him or ridicule him.
Maybe it's meant to people who want to go to the north to look for a better life there, to tell them that the image of the rich, nice west is not so nice at all as they think.
Touché! That's what I see in the lyrics too. The last part to me means that after the sadness of not being special anymore, he realizes that despite the fact that "nobody wants to be in my place instead of me" could be actually good; no matter what the (rather racist) people in the big town think, he´s still a special human being and his culture is just as important as any other else.
Touché! That's what I see in the lyrics too. The last part to me means that after the sadness of not being special anymore, he realizes that despite the fact that "nobody wants to be in my place instead of me" could be actually good; no matter what the (rather racist) people in the big town think, he´s still a special human being and his culture is just as important as any other else.
That´s a great song, Manu is a genius.
That´s a great song, Manu is a genius.