Analysing 7 years by Lukas Graham

It was a big big world, but we thought we were bigger
Pushing each other to the limits, we were learning quicker
By eleven smoking herb and drinking burning liquor
Never rich so we were out to make that steady figure

Once I was eleven years old my daddy told me
Go get yourself a wife or you'll be lonely
Once I was eleven years old

I always had that dream like my daddy before me
So I started writing songs, I started writing stories
Something about the glory, just always seemed to bore me
Cause only those I really love will ever really know me


This song is about growing up, how the writer experienced it and how he is looking towards the future,questioning it. The way the writer is portraying himself is more of a general vision, this may be to allow those listening to relate and think back to their childhood. I think a lot of it is showing the pressures of growing up and to grow up faster. 

Later in the song he says 'soon ill be 60 years old' this could be him telling everyone life is short as he sings about key stages in life. The idea of his dad telling him to find a wife at eleven is showing the pressure and how fast people want children to grow up. The repetition  of 'once i was eleven years old' is like he is reminiscing, this could suggest he may miss being that young.

When he talks about it being a big world but he thought he was bigger is the idea that all children think they know everything . This idea may have influenced how he grew up, it could show that he was a bold child who thought he was bigger than the world, like nothing could drag him down.

He says 'the glory, just always seemed to bore me' which could suggest that he is a down to earth person. The idea of fame and glory is not appealing and as a child he may have been someone who was always in the background and didn't want to be center of attention.