AURORA - RUNAWAY

RUNAWAY

AURORA

SONGWRITERS: AURORA & MAGNUS SKYLSTAD

COUNTRY: NORWAY

ALBUM: ALL MY DEMONS GREETING ME AS AS A FRIEND

LABEL: GLASSNOTE

GENRE: ART POP

YEAR: 2015

 

    Aurora Aksnes (born 15 June 1996), known mononymously as AURORA (stylised in all caps), is a Norwegian singer, songwriter, and record producer. Born in Stavanger, Aurora released her debut extended play, Running with the Wolves, in 2015, through Decca Records. Later that year, she provided the backing track for the John Lewis Christmas advert, singing a cover of the Oasis song "Half the World Away". Aurora released her debut studio album, All My Demons Greeting Me as a Friend, in 2016. In 2018, she released her second extended play, Infections of a Different Kind (Step 1), followed by her second studio album, A Different Kind of Human (Step 2).

          "Runaway" is the lead single and the first track by Norwegian singer Aurora on her EP Running with the Wolves and on the album All My Demons Greeting Me as a Friend. It was written by Aurora and Magnus Skylstad and produced by Odd Martin Skålnes and Skylstad. The song was released on 7 February 2015.

The demo of the song was leaked in late 2015. Early 2021, "Runaway" went viral on social media platform TikTok, resulting in new chart successes and streams on various platforms.

         Aurora wrote the song between the ages of 11 and 12. It is a song about escape and "realizing you want to get home again". In an interview with The 405 she said: "It's strange how this song fits my life better now that I could ever imagine when I wrote the song itself. It's about how important it is to have a soft place to fall".

I was listenin' to the ocean

I saw a face in the sand

But when I picked it up

Then it vanished away from my hands, down

 

I had a dream I was seven

Climbing my way in a tree

I saw a piece of heaven

Waiting impatient for me, down

 

And I was runnin' 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 and

For a moment I thought you were here

But then again, it wasn't true, down

 

And all this time I have been lyin'

Oh, lyin' in secret to myself

I've been putting sorrow on the

Farthest place on my shelf

La-di-da

 

And I was runnin' far Away

Would I run off the world…