I see the song as a response to "The Girl from Ipanema". In that song, she's always walking past everyone, her beauty causing everyone to sigh ("they go aaah") as she passes, but where is she going? Why is she passing by all those people?
This song feels like it's answering that question. The Girl is not happy in her fantastical Brazilian homeland - "Witch doctors are screaming, nymphs are dreamin....Hot latitudes, cool attitudes". She also seems to have lost someone important to her. Thus, she leaves Ipanema and goes north to Greenland, where she herself "goes aaaah".
I don't suppose there is anything specifically symbolic about Greenland. However, it does serve as a stark contrast and opposite to what the Girl already knows from her current life. In that case, maybe the song is about how opposites attract, or how we want whatever we don't have?
Or, it could just be a song with nonsense lyrics, made more for the music and the fun than for the meaning of words.
I see the song as a response to "The Girl from Ipanema". In that song, she's always walking past everyone, her beauty causing everyone to sigh ("they go aaah") as she passes, but where is she going? Why is she passing by all those people?
This song feels like it's answering that question. The Girl is not happy in her fantastical Brazilian homeland - "Witch doctors are screaming, nymphs are dreamin....Hot latitudes, cool attitudes". She also seems to have lost someone important to her. Thus, she leaves Ipanema and goes north to Greenland, where she herself "goes aaaah".
I don't suppose there is anything specifically symbolic about Greenland. However, it does serve as a stark contrast and opposite to what the Girl already knows from her current life. In that case, maybe the song is about how opposites attract, or how we want whatever we don't have?
Or, it could just be a song with nonsense lyrics, made more for the music and the fun than for the meaning of words.