Freetown Christiania, Denmark, hometown neighborhood of 27-year-old artist Lukas Graham. Christiania, founded in 1971, exists as a self-proclaimed independent neighborhood bordering the vibrant and bustling city of Copenhagen. Many have gone as far as to distinguish Christiania as somewhat of a utopian community--free of escalated conflict and full of dreams.

Perhaps the artistry and wistfulness of Christiania is why Lukas Graham, whom I would consider an incredible lyricist and vocalist (mind you, I am no Simon Cowell), has blossomed into the artist that he has revealed himself to the world to be.

If you have gotten this far into the article and are still wondering who Lukas Graham is, he is the singer-songwriter who released "7 Years" last year. And if you are still staring blankly at the page, unaware of the song, then that is what YouTube is for.

Breaking into international attention almost wholly resulted from his 2015 release of "7 Years." On the surface, this song may be conveyed simply as a timeline of events that, at some point or another, many of us will experience in our lives. Imaginably, like you, that is exactly what I heard in the lyrics the first couple of dozen times that I listened to the song. It was not until I further explored the lyrics and the meaning behind them that I realized that while the song does communicate the aforementioned timeline, there is much more to it.

"It was a big, big world, but we thought we were bigger" is one of the opening lyrics. So simply put, but these 12 words disclose immense truths about the assurance that many of us find at very young ages. We, as humans, think that we can handle anything, especially as youths; we think that, as cliché as it may sound, the world revolves around us. Many do not come to realize until much later the falsehood of that which was somehow embedded into our brains at incredibly young ages.

With the second age of 11 mentioned within the song, Graham admits to already being exposed to a world of drugs, specifically marijuana. Here Graham acknowledges the insane velocity at which life moves. Whether we like it or not, many of us are given circumstances that require us to grow up at a much quicker pace than we may have imagined, whether that comes in the form of exposure to drugs or otherwise.

Further throughout much of the song, he repeatedly recognizes the infinite value held in the people you choose to surround yourself with and the even higher value held in remaining genuine to your own authentic self, something that some other artists may cover under a cloud of misguided fame and excess fortune.

While there remains to be this mash-up of hidden meanings throughout the song, Graham disclosed in an interview with Radio.com that the heart of the song lies in his biggest dream: becoming a father. You may have noticed that the timeline of ages halts at the age of 60, and that is because his father only lived to be 61. Behind the amazing ensemble and the visually brilliant music video, the greatest message Graham is intending is simply that he wants to raise his own children in the same admirable way that his own father raised him.

Check out the song: