Everything Matters

## *The Gods We Can Touch* alternative chronology

"**Everything Matters**", featuring French musician and singer-songwriter Pomme, is the thirty-first single by AURORA and the fifth single off her 4th studio album, *The Gods We Can Touch*. On January 7, 2022, it was officially released alongside "A Dangerous Thing" on the single "A Dangerous Thing".

## Background

In August 2019, Aurora mentioned the song's title as a cryptic hint for her next album.

> "While Aurora is working on another record in this series, she's keen to point out that her next LP will be a standalone collection of songs. She doesn't want to spoil the surprise yet, but said that her fans will understand the following clue: *It's just about the fact that everything matters — those two words,* she said."
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On a livestream by Pomme, Aurora further recounted how their collaboration came to be:

> "I made my album in a castle in Norway, and it has French history. And this man lived in this castle like hundreds of years ago, and he was French, Marcus Gerhard. And he loved art and music and he celebrated and invited people [...] and I thought it would be a nice way to honour this French castle by having you."
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## About the song

In an interview shortly after the release, Aurora stated:

> "It's a very strange story [...] a story I would like for people out there to figure out themselves. I contacted a French artist, Pomme, to write the ending for me. And it is beautiful. Sensual. And real. I do often feel like this world is trying to make me focus on all these great miracles. And somehow I feel like it makes me miss out on the small ones. And that is sad. Because the small miracles happen all the time. Sometimes several times a day. And I want to see all of them. Because everything matters."
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Interviewed by *Bedroomdisco*, Aurora said:

> "I wrote it a long time ago, quite early in the process and I already knew with that song that it was a part of the vibration that I wanted the album to be. To me it's about - which is an important keyword for me, because it can be about something different for everyone -, but it's about two things. If you listen very carefully, it's a beautiful and a sad story. There's something ominous about it too. But also something extremely beautiful. It's about these people, the you and them me in the song, and they are going through something which forces them to think about life differently and they look at each other and they look around themselves and they just grasp that time is slipping out of their fingers too quickly. I look at everything and am imagining in the end of the song they drive this car out to a sunset and they watch one very last sunset together and... there's a fear that you miss out on all the beautiful things. There is so much beauty in this world, the small things as well."
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Explaining to *Apple Music*, Aurora said:

> "I don't normally do features. I knew a bit about [Pomme] because she's extremely sweet and very talented. I wanted to include some Frenchness on the opening song as a gift to the castle that gave me a lot of the inspiration to finish this album. I asked her if she could write the ending of my song in French, and she wrote a beautiful story about the flowers we picked in all of your favourite places. It is an ode to Rosendal."
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## Lyrics

I'm driving your car with you

Sleeping in the seat next to me

Like a baby

You twist and you turn

You're traveling fast

Like a bird in a dream

Look at it go

Look at it dance

Over the sky like a rocket

A love machine, a cinematic dream

So pure and it hurts

When the beauty is lost in the speed

Cause everything matters to me

(To me, to me, to me, to me)

To me

You're a part of the dawn

Where the light comes from the dark

You're a part of the morning

And еverything matters

Here we are an atom and a star

You're a part of the movement

And everything matters

(To me, to me, to me, to me)

I'm watching a storm

Turn into form

In the clouds of the world

Like a burst

It dances and it twirls

On top of the world

It is good and it hurts

Look at it go

Look at it dance

Over the sky like a rocket

A teacher, a simulated dream

A cure, a cure for the hurt

And the pleasure you feel

Is real

You're a part of the dawn

Where the light comes from the dark

You're a part of the morning

And everything matters

Here we are an atom and a star

You're a part of the movement

And everything matters

(To me, to me, to me, to me)

(To me, to me, to me, to me, to me)

Quelque part, avant l'aube

Quand la lumière veut nous voir

Quelque part dans le monde un oiseau s'endort

Sans bruit, toi et moi

Dans la nuit on trouvera

Quelque part où déposer

Les fleurs qu'on a cueillies

Pars avant l'aube

Quand la lumière veut nous voir

Quelque part dans le monde un oiseau s'endort

Sans bruit, toi et moi

Dans la nuit on trouvera

Quelque part où déposer

Les fleurs qu'on a cueillies

Pars avant l'aube

Quand la lumière veut nous voir

Quelque part dans le monde un oiseau s'endort

Sans bruit, toi et moi

Dans la nuit on trouvera

Quelque part où déposer

Les fleurs qu'on...

These lyrics include lines written in French, English translation here:

Lyrics transcribed by listening.

## Trivia

* The cover photo was shot by Xin Li.
* The song was first discovered in various song repertoires in September 2021.
* This song was used in a car commercial for *Voyah*, Aurora appeared in the ad.

### Lyrics annotation

Somewhere before dawn

When the light wants to see us

Somewhere in the world, a bird falls asleep

Quietly, you and me

In the night, we will find

Somewhere to drop off

The flowers that we picked

Leave before dawn

When the light wants to see us

Somewhere in the world, a bird falls asleep

Quietly, you and me

In the night, we will find

Somewhere to drop off

The flowers that we picked

Leave before dawn

When the light wants to see us

Somewhere in the world, a bird falls asleep

Quietly, you and me

In the night, we will find

Somewhere to drop off

The flowers that we...

## References

1. ↑ https://aurora.lnk.to/ADT1
2. ↑ http://riffmagazine.com/qa/aurora-building-army-of-love/
3. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOQWFUkXrM0&t=418s
4. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20220107111202/https://diymag.com/2022/01/07/aurora-new-everything-matters-a-dangerous-thing
5. ↑ https://www.bedroomdisco.de/2022/02/aurora-the-gods-we-can-touch/
6. ↑ https://rentry.co/t4tei
7. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20220419090913/https://music.apple.com/us/album/the-gods-we-can-touch/1589814809
8. ↑ https://www.instagram.com/p/CYbiWKDMUSw/
9. ↑ File:Everything Matters bmi.png
10. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uhb4uCngSQ