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Conqueror by AURORA

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Conqueror

Release date: 25th August 2016

Track 23:28
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About This Track

Aurora built this track around clattering drum beats that build toward a euphoric chorus, layering synth-pop and electropop production across lyrics that pivot between fragmentation and yearning. The song cycles through images of brokenness, mornings, nights, days, people, before settling into its central plea: a search for someone who never arrives, a fantasy that offers only destruction rather than rescue. The chorus anchors itself in repetition and negation. "I've been looking for the conqueror / But you don't seem to come my way," Aurora sings, the phrase doubling back on itself across the track's arc. Against that absence, the final section shifts register entirely. "I feel alive" becomes a declaration that stands apart from the longing that precedes it, a moment of self-sufficiency that doesn't require the arrival of anyone else.

"Conqueror" is a single by AURORA, released 25th August 2016. The track is 3:28 long. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 16 articles about AURORA.

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Lyrics

Conqueror

Broken mornings, broken nights
And broken days in between
Open ground, the sky is open
Makes an open scene

(Oh-oh, oh-oh)
Just like in fiction, in every addiction
(Oh-oh, oh-oh)
Oh, fantasy's taking over, awake me

I've been looking for the conqueror
But you don't seem to come my way
I've been looking for the only one
But you don't seem to come my way

Broken me and broken them
And you are broken too
Open ears, their eyes are open
Makes me call for you

(Oh-oh, oh-oh)
But there's no seduction, only destruction
(Oh-oh, oh-oh)
Oh, fantasy take me over and break me

I've been looking for the conqueror
But you don't seem to come my way
I've been looking for the only one
But you don't seem to come my way
I've been looking for the conqueror
But you don't seem to come my way (ay-eh-ah-eh-ah-eh-ah-eh-ah)
I've been looking for the only one
But you don't seem to come my way (ay-eh-ah-eh-ah-eh-ah-eh-ah)

But I feel ali-li-live
I feel ali-li-live
I feel ali-li-live
I feel ali-li-live

I've been looking for the conqueror
But you don't seem to come my way (ay-eh-ah-eh-ah-eh-ah-eh-ah)
I've been looking for the only one
But you don't seem to come my way (ay-eh-ah-eh-ah-eh-ah-eh-ah)
I've been looking for the conqueror
But you don't seem to come my way (ay-eh-ah-eh-ah-eh-ah-eh-ah)
I've been looking for the only one
But you don't seem to come my way (ay-eh-ah-eh-ah-eh-ah-eh-ah)

I feel ali-li-live (ay-eh-ah-eh-ah-eh-ah-eh-ah)
I feel ali-li-live (ay-eh-ah-eh-ah-eh-ah-eh-ah)
I feel ali-li-live (ay-eh-ah-eh-ah-eh-ah-eh-ah)
I feel ali-li-live

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Conqueror

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Credits

Production & Engineering

Writer
AURORA, Geir Luedy, Magnus Skylstad, Odd Martin
Producer
Jeremy Wheatley, Magnus Skylstad, Odd Martin
Drums
Magnus Skylstad, Odd Martin
Keyboards
Pete Davis
Vocals
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Additional Production
Jeremy Wheatley
Bass Guitar
Odd Martin
Immersive Mixing Engineer
Ash Howes
Mastering Engineer
Alex Wharton
Mixing Engineer
Jeremy Wheatley
Percussion
Odd Martin
Piano
Magnus Skylstad
Programmer
Odd Martin, Pete Davis
Recording Engineer
Magnus Skylstad, Odd Martin
Synthesizer
Alf Lund Gobolt
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