Song Details
- Album Release Date: 2012
- Genre: party
Song Meaning of “Z’ruck zu Dir (Hallo Klaus) – Live Version 2011” by Lollies
The song “Z’ruck zu Dir (Hallo Klaus)” by the German band the Lollies is a track about a journey back home. The narrator of the song talks about how hard it is to go away from the people and the places that they know and love. But ultimately, the song is about the power of love, and the narrator’s longing to get back to their true home— the person who loves them, no matter how far they are. As the title implies, the song is dedicated to a character named “Klaus.”
On the surface, the pulsing instrumentation and driving tempo of the song set an overall determined, and even slightly hectic mood. But as the chorus commanded “Help me find my way, back home again,” the lyrics ultimately suggest that no matter where they go, all the narrator wants is to be able to return to their beloved Klaus.
The lyrics are saturated in nostalgia, and sentimentality, navigating between past memories of happiness and the pain of leaving. The narrator paints vivid pictures of a perfect life they could have, if only they could return to Klaus. They sing of “a thousand-year-old tree, so deep in our hearts,” and imagine they can still “see the fields of wheat, and the sky’s so clear.”