Exhale Inhale

## *Sky: Concert in the Light* chronology

"**Exhale Inhale**" (originally titled "**Exhale, Inhale**") is a song by AURORA from her album, *The Gods We Can Touch*. It was written by Aurora, Magnus Skylstad and Glen Roberts, and produced by Aurora and Skylstad.

## About the song

Aurora explained the track to *Apple Music*:

> "I think very carefully about how I place the songs on every album. I knew that after 'The Innocent', I would want something extremely open, to remind people to breathe again. 'Exhale Inhale' is about breath, to remember to breathe about anxiety for yourself, for the world, for your part in this world."
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She later explained to Dutch newspaper *de Volkskrant*:

> "It's an important song for me. It is about the fear of the great disasters that await us and the feeling that can overwhelm us that everything is too big and overwhelming, that we can no longer avoid the disaster. I see that paralysis all around me, in many young people. And not only in regard to the climate problem, but also in the social interaction between them. Even if you see that a friend of yours is in trouble, if someone is in spiritual distress, you must intervene. Even if you think it's too late. That's not. We will have to overcome our fear of the irreversible."
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## Lyrics

I was a moving thing

Before I was a human being

I was the ice before it melts

I was the tree before it fell

My dear, come near

Do you understand

What is happening?

Crawl beneath the earth

To feel the hunger and the thirst

If you could fly and be the bird

Then you would see the forest burn

My dear, come near

Do you understand

What is happening?

Who is calling me?

For the emergency

Who is listening?

To the sirens singing

We are stood, and somehow calm,

Within the madness of a storm

With no solution for the scared

Tasting pollution in the air

My dear, come near

Do you feel my hand?

It is there

(Exhale) Inhale

(Exhale) Inhale

(Exhale) Inhale

(Exhale) Inhale

(Exhale) Inhale

(Exhale) Inhale

(Exhale) Inhale

(Exhale) Inhale

Who is calling me?

For the emergency

Who is listening?

To the sirens singing

Take from our world no more

Take from my world no more

Take from our world no more

Take from my world no more

Lyrics transcribed by listening.

## Trivia

* The song was first discovered in various song repertoires.
* *The Gods We Can Touch* was released in several variants, including vinyl and cassette versions named after the goddess of this song, *Oizys*.
* In a video for *Spotify*, Aurora said that the god that inspired the song was Thanatos, personification of death and noted: "This whole song is about that it's so important to reach out for help or to offer help before it's too late."

## References

1. ↑ https://x.com/AuroraFranceOff/status/1709952013100794271
2. ↑ https://aurora.lnk.to/TGWCT
3. ↑ https://rentry.co/t4tei
4. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20220419090913/https://music.apple.com/us/album/the-gods-we-can-touch/1589814809 (archived from original)
5. ↑ https://www.volkskrant.nl/cultuur-media/ik-merk-aan-de-reacties-op-mijn-muziek-dat-een-bepaald-type-mens-precies-aanvoelt-waarover-die-gaat~b5c5f0f0/
6. ↑ https://www.reddit.com/r/auroramusic/comments/sdg2po/
7. ↑ File:ExhalesInhale-Ascap.png
8. ↑ https://shop.aurora-music.com/collections/music/products/the-gods-we-can-touch-oizys-vinyl-cover
9. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20220109041434/https://shop.aurora-music.com/\*/music/The-Gods-We-Can-Touch-Oizys-Cassette/79Q81GN0000 (archived from original)
10. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ej0eA-Fp-p8&t=201s