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"Awakening" is a song by Norwegian singer AURORA, released on May 5, 2013 as her first official song. It was later included as an extra track on the vinyl version of her debut extended play Running With The Wolves with a 2015 Version. AURORA wrote this song when she was 15 or 14 and first recorded it when she was 16. She recounted producing it together with Odd Martin Skålnes. An early version of the song was published on P3 Urørt (a site for Norwegian unsigned artists) on April 16, 2013 and on SoundCloud the following month. This was before AURORA signing her record deals and it was one of her few available tracks in those early years, it was used extensively in promotion. After successful gigs at by:Larm, the track became Ukas Urørt (untouched track of the week) at P3 Urørt. It was officially released shortly after in a slightly different mix. AURORA said to NRK P3: "It's about a girl who is going on a journey. An outer and an inner journey. About disappointment and hope. I like that listeners can interpret the stories I tell themselves. It gives more room for the imagination". And to Ja Ja Ja Music: "I don't want to ruin the feeling you might get listening to it... If it makes you happy or sad I want it to stay like that. But it's about a girl, experiencing all kinds of different things… but it ends with light. I can say that." A music video for this song was filmed back in April 2014. According to Robin Larsen, an associate of AURORA, the music video for the song was p
