Runaway (Guitar Acoustic)

"**Runaway (Guitar Acoustic)**" (also called "**Runaway (Guitar Version)**") is an acoustic version of "Runaway" by AURORA. This version was written and produced by Aurora and Magnus Skylstad. It was released on March 5, 2021, as a thank you gift for the original version hitting 100 million streams on Spotify.

## Background

Aurora first teased the release of the song during a livestream done for the release of *For the Metal People*:

> "I'm releasing something fun tomorrow. It's just a little thing I did really quickly, but you can listen to it if you like. It's just a little acoustic version (or like, a quiet version) of a song that I will release to you tomorrow. I don't know if I was supposed to say it or not, but here I am, saying it! I'm excited to share a little piece of intimacy with you tomorrow."
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She later posted about the new version on Instagram:

> "Hello my darlings, I wanted to do a little acoustic version of 'Runaway' for you all. It's very simple. And it's very honest. And it's a little piece of the core from which Runaway was born from 🌙✨💫 it's available somewhere out there now, I think. So you can have a look at it, if you want. Thank you to my friend @fredriksvabo for sitting down with me and playing it✨ I think I chose our second take, it had just enough nerve in it. 🧚🏻Weee"
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## Lyrics

Hmm, I was listening to the ocean

I saw a face in the sand

But when I picked it up

Then it vanished away from my hands (dah)

I had a dream I was seven

Climbing my way in a tree

I saw a piece of Heaven

Waiting in patience for me (dah)

And I was running far away

Would I run off the world someday?

Nobody knows, nobody knows, and

I was dancing in the rain

I felt alive and I can't complain

But now take me home

Take me home where I belong

I can't take it anymore

I was painting a picture

The picture was a painting of you

For a moment I thought you were here

But then again, it wasn't true (dah)

And all this time I have been lying

Oh, lying in secret to myself

I've been putting sorrow

On the farthest place on my shelf (dah-di-dah)

And I was standing far away

Would I run off the world someday?

Nobody knows, nobody knows, and

I was dancing in the rain

I felt alive and I can't complain

But now take me home

Take me home where I belong

I got no other place to go

Now take me home

Take me home where I belong

I got no other place to go

Now take me home

Take me home where I belong

I can't take it anymore

But I kept running

For a soft place to fall

And I kept running

For a soft place to fall

And I kept running

For a soft place to fall

And I kept running

For a soft place to fall

And I was running far away

Would I run off the world someday?

But now take me home

Take me home where I belong

I got no other place to go

Now take me home

Take me home where I belong

I got no other place to go

Now take me home

Home where I belong, no, no

Now take me home

Home where I belong, no, no, no

Now take me home

Home where I belong, no, no

Now take me home

Home where I belong

I can't take it anymore

Lyrics transcribed by listening.

## References

1. ↑ https://aurora.lnk.to/RunawayGuitar
2. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jR5dvxoIW6g&t=1037
3. ↑ https://www.instagram.com/p/CMCUQsBlCRf/ (now defunct, Aurora on Instagram, March 5, 2021)
4. ↑ https://twitter.com/AURORAmusic/status/1367809236168740866