The meaning of the lyrics of the song "Schmetterling" by the artist "Unheilig"

The lyrics of the song "Schmetterling" ("Butterfly") by the German band Unheilig are a metaphor for transformation and finding freedom. The lyrical hero observes a butterfly, admiring its beauty and effortlessness. The butterfly in this case symbolizes the transformation that the hero himself or someone close to him has gone through.

"You didn't always look like this" - indicates that the butterfly used to be a caterpillar, inconspicuous and limited in its capabilities. "Now you flap your wings freely" - a symbol of gaining freedom, new opportunities, раскрытия potential.

"Fragility, always ready to take flight" - emphasizes the seeming vulnerability, which is actually the strength that allows you to soar above the ordinary. "You shine with simplicity. Beauty can be so perfect and honest" - true beauty needs no pretense, it is natural and pure.

The hero sees in the butterfly a reflection of his own "self": "I imagine you think the same of me". He strives for the same lightness, freedom, wants to reach his true "self".

The repeated calls "Butterfly, catch the wind", "Show me how big your wings are", "Let me into your world", "I want to be like you" - speak of the hero's desire to share the butterfly's freedom, to become part of its world, to gain wings and take flight.

The lines "It used to be different, before the mask fell. But it was always here, just locked away in a puppet show" - point to a past state of being closed off, artificial, lacking in authenticity. "Calm and lifeless, no one wants to be like you" - a description of a former state, devoid of brightness and vitality. And the phrase "Now everyone is constantly looking at you" - emphasizes the contrast between the past and the present, the admiration that the transformation evokes.