Giving In to the Love

## *The Gods We Can Touch* standard chronology

"**Giving In to the Love**" is the twenty-eighth single released by AURORA and the third single from her album, *The Gods We Can Touch*. On October 14, 2021, the song was officially released worldwide.

## Background

Aurora revealed the song is actually the demo, she wrote it in the last minute when she had finished and mastered the album.

> "I love very big, powerful drums. To me, that's very native. It's something ancient. I love when music touches that place. I actually wrote that song at the last minute. I had already finished the album and mastered it, but then I wanted to have 'Giving In to the Love' on it. So it's actually the demo; I never got the chance to completely mix it. It's very unpolished."
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## About the song

Aurora gave an interview for the song's premiere on Australian radio station Triple J, where she noted:

> "I was thinking about Prometheus [...], the myth [...] and how he supposedly created mankind in clay. And how he stole the fire from the gods to kinda make us alive and complete us I guess. And I was thinking about this clay and how much we obsess with the looks of this clay, that kind of means nothing. And how it seems to distract us from I guess the fire that we keep inside. And that's very sad. I think the world today makes a lot of people very unhappy because we obsess with these strange things, like how we look. [...] And I find this obsession with beauty both very fascinating and very scary at the same time, so it's kind of about that."
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Before the single's release, Aurora shared the following message on Instagram:

> "My little baby is out so sooooon! I hope it will liberate you both spiritually, sexually, emotionally and intellectually. Weee Wooo"
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## Lyrics

I'm losing my connection,

I'm tired of the rules and your corrections,

I want to live my life, be all of its pages,

And underline that I am not an angel

'Cause if I'm not pure,

I guess that I'm too much,

I never know how to keep in, keep in touch...

If I'll be somebody,

I'll never let my skin decide it for me,

I never had the world so why change for it?

I never had the world so why change for it?

Giving in to the love,

Giving in to the love,

Giving in to the love, the love, the love, the love

Someone out there is trying,

To find somebody whole who is not dying,

But everybody cries and nobody comforts,

The television lies and now my mind hurts

And if I'm not loved,

I guess that I am cursed,

I gotta know how to beat it, beat it first

If I'll be somebody,

I'll never let my skin decide it for me,

I never had the world so why change for it?

I never had the world so why change for it?

Giving in to the love,

Giving in to the love,

Giving in to the love, the love, the love, the love, the love

Giving in to the love,

Giving in to the love,

Giving in to the love, the love, the love, the love

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## Music video

A music video for the song was premiered on October 20, 2021. It was directed by Sigurd Fossen and recorded at Ramme in Norway.

## Trivia

* The cover photo was shot by Isak Okkenhaug, see the full shoot on set here. Cover design by Leif Podhajský.
* The song's instrumental was leaked in December 2021.

## References

1. ↑ https://aurora.lnk.to/GITTL
2. ↑ https://rentry.co/t4tei
3. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20220419090913/https://music.apple.com/us/album/the-gods-we-can-touch/1589814809
4. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoYgReFWq2c&t=182s
5. ↑ https://www.reddit.com/r/auroramusic/comments/q7l0c5/
6. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrC8yyp32wY
7. ↑ https://www.instagram.com/p/Ch94NnTN19m/
8. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bEkLoJXphs