Awakening

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## Song

### Length

3:40
3:38 ('early version')
3:57 (2015 Version)

### Label

Coco & Co
Decca Records (2015 Version)

### Writer(s)

Aurora Aksnes
Odd Martin Skålnes

### Producer(s)

Odd Martin Skålnes
Magnus Skylstad (2015 Version)

## Singles Chronology

"**Awakening**" is a song by AURORA (initial releases as Aurora Aksnes). It was her first and only single released on label Coco & Co. It was written by Aurora and Odd Martin Skålnes. On March 23, 2014 the song was officially released worldwide.

## Background

Aurora wrote this song when she was 15 or 14 and first recorded it when she was 16. She recounted producing it together with Odd Martin Skålnes. An early version of the song was published on *P3 Urørt* (a site for Norwegian unsigned artists) on April 16, 2013 and on SoundCloud the following month. This was before Aurora signing her record deals and it was one of her few available tracks in those early years, it was used extensively in promotion. After successful gigs at by:Larm, the track became *Ukas Urørt* (untouched track of the week) at P3 Urørt. It was officially released shortly after in a slightly different mix.

According to *ETEP*, the single reached one million streams on Spotify in 2014.

A third version of the song ("2015 Version") is an extra track on the vinyl release of the *Running with the Wolves EP*. Magnus Skylstad is also credited as producer for this version.

## About the song

Aurora said to *NRK P3*:

> "It's about a girl who is going on a journey. An outer and an inner journey. About disappointment and hope. I like that listeners can interpret the stories I tell themselves. It gives more room for the imagination."
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And to *Ja Ja Ja Music*:

> "I don't want to ruin the feeling you might get listening to it... If it makes you happy or sad I want it to stay like that. But it's about a girl, experiencing all kinds of different things… but it ends with light. I can say that."
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## Lyrics

With a tiny rope and a bag of stones

And all her broken wishing bones

She's going in, she's going home

Oh, this little golden knight

Fighting every day behind the light

Behind the light

Walking faster down the street

Red eyes and no shoes on her feet

Going on this journey, determined to complete

This is farewell, this is goodnight

The last time she will see the daylight

See the daylight

And she's going on a journey

Always walking down the road

And the water is always calling

"My little child, please come home"

That's when she went away

Away from the light of day

Standing by the riverside

Patiently waiting for the tide

To come along, to come along

The water's going to her feet

And on her body, wind so cold and sweet

So cold and sweet

And she's going on a journey

Always walking down the road

And the water is always calling

"My little child, please come home"

And the stars were brightly shining

When she reached out they were gone

And the water started calling

"My little child, please come home"

Feel the water in her body, water's never going out

Feel the water in her body, water's never going out

Feel the water in her body, water's never going out

Feel the water in her body, water's never going out

Feel the water in her body, water's never going out

Feel the water in her body, water's never going out

Feel the water in her body, water's never going out

Feel the water in her body, water's never going out

And she's going on a journey

Always walking down the road

And the water is always calling

"My little child, please come home"

And the stars were brightly shining

When she reached out they were gone

And the water started calling

"My little child, please come home"

When a shiny light hit her eye

And she turned around and climbed towards the sky

Towards the sky

Lyrics transcribed by listening.

## Music video

A music video for this song was filmed back in April 2014. According to Robin Larsen, an associate of Aurora, the music video for the song was published on YouTube as an unlisted video but got deleted in 2015. Several images and short clips appeared elsewhere.

More short video snippets of the music video can be found here and here. It is likely that Øyvind Svanes Lunde was the cinematographer, as he shared some clips of the video in his 2014 compilation reel.

Behind the scenes photos were posted by Vidar Langeland.

## Trivia

* The cover artwork photo was shot by Bent René Synnevåg, see the photoshoot here.

## References

1. ↑ https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0792RPKYS/
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 https://p3.no/musikk/skrev-sanger-i-skjul/
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 https://www.reddit.com/r/auroramusic/comments/ljd2gh/
4. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Je1yvsxmEIM&t=405s
5. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20130605094956/http://www.nrk.no/urort/Artist/AuroraAksnes/default.aspx (archived from original)
6. ↑ https://soundcloud.com/auroraaksnes/awakening
7. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20160119000506/http://www.etep.nl:80/acts/detail/aurora (archived from original)
8. ↑ File:PPL-Awakening.jpg
9. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20140914234559/https://jajajamusic.com/2014/09/spotlight-interview-aurora-aksnes-london-lexington/ (archived from original)
10. ↑ https://www.facebook.com/vidla/media\_set?set=a.10152338800115804 (now defunct)