Welcome to Gaia! :: View User's Journal | Gaia Journals

He is Not One of Us
From the Lion King 2
By: Disney Chorus

Deception
Disgrace
Evil as plain as the scar on his face
Deception (An outrage!)
(He can't change his stripes!)
Disgrace (For shame!)
(You know these Outsider types!)
He asked for trouble the moment he came
(See you later, agitator!)
Deception (An outrage!)
(Just leave us alone!)
Disgrace (For shame!)
(Traitor, go back with your own!)
He asked for trouble the moment he came
(See you later, agitator!)
Born in grief
Raised in hate
Helpless to defy his fate
Let him run
Let him live
But do not forget
What we cannot forgive
And he is not one of us
He has never been one of us
He is not part of us
Not our kind Someone once lied to us
Now we're not so blind
For we knew he would do what he's done And we know that he'll never be one of us
He is not one of us
Deception
Disgrace
Deception
Disgrace
Deception


“He is Not One of Us” from the Lion King 2 can easily describe Johnny Cade. Johnny is the most abused out of the Greasers. His father beats him and his mother doesn’t even know he exists. After sixteen years of cruelty something in Johnny snaps and he kills Bob, a Soc. During one of the most traumatic times in his life, Johnny was left with a huge scar from the very Socs he had just killed. In the song one of the lines is, evil as plain as the scar on his face. Society claims that Johnny is evil because of a scar that he got from one of their own. Once Johnny killed Bob, the community completely disregarded Johnny as a human being. He was a disgrace to his society and was completely exiled from their lifestyle. One of the lines is, he asked for trouble the moment he came. To society the moment Johnny became a Greasers he was trouble. They see him as a Greaser, a hood, a delinquent. The song says he can’t change his stripes. Society believes that Johnny is a Greaser and will be nothing more than a Greaser.

The lines born in grief and raised in hate describe Johnny’s childhood. The Greasers knew what happened to Johnny at home: “I had seen Johnny take a whipping by a two-by-four from his old man…” (p.33). Johnny was constantly beaten by his father and his mother never even noticed him. He was raised completely in hate; his parents didn’t care about him. Do not forget what we cannot forgive, would have to be some of the most powerful lines in this song. It shows that not matter what Johnny does, he will never be forgiven by society. The community completely shuns Johnny by saying, he is not one us. He is not part of society any longer. Not only does the community turn their back on Johnny, they don’t even see him at the same level of a human. The words to the song are, he is not part of us, not our kind. By saying that Johnny isn’t the same kind as the society it basically says that Johnny is unworthy to be a human. The song says the word disgrace with increasing force. Every time the word is said it has a different meaning behind it. At first he was a disgrace to himself, then teenagers, then his family, and then society. In the end the community believes that Johnny is a disgrace to life. This song displays the society’s inability to see past cliques.