Seventh track on Björk’s fourth critically acclaim album Vespertine.
As the rest of the album, the song is charged with a sexual meaning.
The lyrics are actually about a childhood memory when she was running on the top of a glacier, but fell on her knees. It describes how she put snow in her mouth...
[Verse 1]
Threading
The glacier head
Looking hard for
Moments of shine
From twilight
To twilight
[Chorus]
Aurora
Goddess sparkle
Shoot me
Beyond this suffer
The need is great
Aurora
[Chorus]
Aurora
Goddess sparkle
A mountain shade
Suggests your shape
I tumbled down
On my knees
Fill the mouth
With snow
[Verse 2]
The way it melts
I wish to melt into you
[Chorus]
Aurora
[Outro]
Spark the sun off (Spark the sun off)
Spark the sun off (Spark the sun off)
Spark the sun off (Spark the sun off)
Spark the sun off for me
Aurora was written by Björk.
Aurora was produced by Björk.
She doesn’t sing any English word. It is in fact gibberish. This section doesn’t contain any lyrics on Vespertine’s booklet.
Björk reflected on the creation of making “Aurora” via Instagram on October 9, 2021, in reference to performing the track on her Orkestral tour in an alternate arrangement:
i wrote áróra on sibelius software i got in 1999 and fell in love with and have used ever since . i am excited to have the ori...