5th grade, Unit 3 alternative. The young boy is befriended by a pirate and starts to feel close to him. As the song plays (which is all about being listened to and noticed), we see the young boy flashing back to parallel scenes in the past with his own father, who did not listen to him, did not notice him, and eventually walked away from him. In the present, the pirate is 'correcting' the mistakes of the absent father, but the dramatisation shows the disappointment and rejection versus the validation of both individuals in his life.